Alina Pash is nominated for the European Union Prize for music
Ukrainian artist Alina Pash was shortlisted for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2022. She will compete for the victory with the 15 best emerging artists from all over Europe, will have the opportunity to perform at the ESNS festival and receive financial support for touring and promotion.
Young Ukrainian hip-hop artist Alina Pash was nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2022. The selection results were announced at the Linecheck Music Meeting & Festival opening event at BASE Milano in Italy on Monday November 22. In fact, Alina Pash became the second nominee in a row from a non-EU country. This fact confirms the prospects of young Ukrainian music and its competitiveness at the international level.
A total of fifteen outstanding artists have been nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2022. The nominees are: Alina Pash (Ukraine), Anna (Italy), Balkan Taksim (Romania), Blanks (The Netherlands), Denise Chaila (Ireland), Дeva (Hungary), DORA (Spain), Francis of Delirium (Luxembourg), Friedberg (Austria), Jada (Denmark), Ladaniva (Armenia), Meskerem Mees (Belgium), Mezerg (France), Nenny (Portugal), and Zoe Wees (Germany).
At the next stage, an international jury will select 5 winners and each of them will receive € 10.000. Furthemore, the winner of the Grand Jury Award will receive €10.000 and a green touring voucher worth €5.000. All fifteen nominees are invited for a business education day, with best practices in the music industry, organised by ESNS and its partners; the live sector (Liveurope, Yourope and Live DMA), the recording industry (IMPALA and Digital Music Europe), the International Music Managers Forum (IMMF) The European Music Exporters Exchange (EMEE). Also, one of the nominees can win the Public Choice Award by open online voting. To vote and support Alina Pash, just follow the link and vote.
All winners will be revealed at the Music Moves Europe Awards ceremony on Thursday January 20, 2022 at ESNS in Groningen, the Netherlands. In this way, the announced nominees for the award will not only have the opportunity to performat ESNS in front of a professional business audience, but will also receive media support and promotion of their own work across the continent.
Recall that in 2021 Ukrainian’s alyona alyona won this award as the most promising emerging artist in Europe and received the Public Choice Award, surpassing the popularity and likes of all other participants. She is now a member of the jury of the Music Moves Europe Awards for 2022.
“I was an award winner last year and I also won the public choice award. It was really exciting for me and I'm really happy that my country Ukraine was a winner last year. I will be a jury member of this edition, which is the tradition for every public choice winner and I'm very excited to be a part of it this year and I'm looking forward to study all 15 nominees and finding the winners of this year,” — said alyona alyona.
The Music Moves Europe Awards are the The European Union Prize for popular and contemporary music. The aim of the awards is to celebrate upcoming European artists and support them in developing their international careers.
The awards succeed the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) and the Music Moves Europe Talent Award (MMETA), supported and handed out by the European Union since 2004 and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme. The Prize has an impeccable track record, awarding artists including Stromae, Adele, Mumford & Sons, Dua Lipa, Rosalía, Meduza, Lous and the Yakuza, Inhaler and last year's winner alyona alyona. Each of these artists have since reached new levels of fame and success in the global music industry.