The FINANCIAL — Radio Holding Fortuna held its annual Golden Wave Music Award ceremony on 11 June. The winners were revealed by a competent jury, as well as by experienced professional staff from all four radio stations. The winner of the nomination “Internet Leader” was revealed by votes from the webpage goldenwave.ge. The main purpose of the ceremony was to stimulate the Georgian music industry. Georgian pop singer Anri Jokhadze became winner of the “Song of the Year” and received a special statue and cash prize worth GEL 5,000.
Golden Wave Award has now been held in Georgia for the second time. “The main purpose of the ceremony is to stimulate the Georgian music industry, which is currently not in the best shape. As a radio business company we are focused on drawing in good music for our audiences, since the largest amount of music comes from local artists and this is especially true for radio Ardaidardo, where 100% of the music is Georgian. Furthermore, we feel a kind of responsibility to incentivize local performers. Besides the monetary value of the award of GEL 5,000, the awards are mainly a means to express respect for Georgian performers. In this way we are encouraging all people involved in the music industry to create more valuable music. We were thinking of launching this awards ceremony for a long time. The idea for the ceremony has existed for several years. However, due to many general political and economic factors we kept postponing it indefinitely for a “better”, more “suitable” time. Last year we finally decided to give it a go, as we realised that there were always going to be some problematic factors that could prevent us from doing it,” Tamar Chigogidze, General Director of radio Holding Fortuna, told The FINANCIAL.
Radio Holding Fortuna is the largest radio broadcasting organization, which owns the four most popular musical and informational radio stations: Fortuna, Fortuna Plus, ArDaidardo and Auto Radio. These music stations of the Holding make up more than 65% of the radio market of Georgia.
The FINANCIAL was a media partner of the award.
The list of participants of the competition were selected by the most popular and aired songs. 79 songs were nominated in the competition this year.
The winners were as follows: Song of the Year – Anri Jokhadze; Internet Leader – Gela Guralia; Best Female Singer – Nina Sublati; Best Male Singer – Zura Khachidze; Best Duet – Ensemble Kartuli Khmebi and Niaz Diasamidze; Best Group – Gamouvali Mdgomareoba; Best Ensemble – Kartuli Khmebi; Favourite Artists of radio stations: Fortuna – Teatraluri Kvarteti, Fortuna Plus – Sheishen, Avtoradio – Kakhaber and Khanumebiand, and Ardiadardo – Bani; Favourite Artist of Music Box TV – Anri Jokhadze; Best City Song – Ensemble Metekhi; Best Rock Song – Gamouvali Mdgomareoba; and, Best Pop Song – Nodiko Tatishvili.
A special prize was awarded to Tsisperi Trio for their special contribution to the development of the musical field. This is a music project presented by radio holding Fortuna, which contributes to discovering new singers as well as supporting well known performers, composers, and support of this sector.
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