As the countdown begins for the Hit and Jams Entertainment Mash-Awards (HJ M-As) Jonathan “Lil Red” King leads the nominations in five categories. He was nominated in the Best Writer Category for his tune, “Who we are” also in the Best Power Soca category; Song of the Season Category; Best Music Video Category and for the Best Groovy Soca with his tune, “Meet her meter”.
The awards are billed for March 16 at the National Park arena as the entertainment company celebrates its first anniversary of 94.1Boom FM.
In the best calypso category, there are four nominees which includes, Shontelle Gittens with “Chinese Teking Over”; Lester “De Professor” Charles with his winning entry in this year’s Calypso competition “The Truth”; Slingshot with his entry “Get Fit” and former calypso monarch, Roger “Young Bill Rogers” hinds with “Don’t sing about that”.
In the chutney category, the nominees are Chutney Queen, Fiona with “Start wining”; the reigning monarch, Pooran Seeraj with “Under the Maro” and the 2013 Chutney monarch, Roger Hinds with “Give me more Chutney”.
Apart from Lil Red the others who were nominated for the best song writer were; Ernesta Nelson for “Ridiculous Wining”; Jumo Primo for “On the Road”; Kwasi Edmondson for his tune “In the Game” and Adrian Dutchin for “Bend over and Roll”.
The battle for the producer is on as five talented men are ready in place to cop the accolade. These include, Burchmore Simon for “Yada Yada” followed by Spida for “Chinese Teking Over”; Ken Taylor for “Still in the Game”; Friction for “Bend Over and Roll” and Ernie for “March Out”.
There are three nominees for the best collaboration in a single music with “This Girl cab whine” by Mystic featuring Jory Hector and Barbadian soca sensation, Kirk Brown followed by “Truck Overloaded” by Spida featuring Mysterious and “Start Wining” performed by Chutney Queen, Fiona Singh featuring Fojo.
For the best groovy monarch category, apart from Lil Red, there are five other talented singers who can cop the award. These are Shelly G with her entry “Party Animal”; Ernesta Nelson with “Ridiculous wining”; Kwasi Edmondson with “Still in the Game”; Magga Man with “Log on Pun you Bumpa”.
The nominees for best power soca are Adrian Dutchin for “Bend Over and Roll” followed by Melissa Vanilla Roberts with “Yada Yada”; Jumo Primo with On the Road”; Bonesman with his song, “Blow” and of course, Lil Red with “Who we are”.
In the category for best music video, Adrian Dutchin’s “Bend Over and Roll”; Shelly G’s, “Party Animal”; Jumo Primo’s, “On the Road”; Bonesman’s, “Blow” and again, Lil Red with “Who are we” but topping off the nominees in this category is Ernesta Nelson with “Ridiculous Wining”.
The penultimate award for the evening will be the best new comer and for this category there are three nominees including, Lady T with her tune “Hit the Road”; Natoya London with “Mass” and Kemmy with “Designated Whiner”.
The most impressive accolade for the evening will be the Song of the Season and for this, there are five contenders ready to grab the title.
They are Adrian Dutchin with “Bend Over and Roll”; Lil Red with “Who we are”; Kwasi Edmondson with Still in the Game”; followed by Shelly G with Party Animal; the reigning Road March Queen, Vanilla with her song “Yada Yada” and two times Carib Soca Monarch with his tune “On the Road”.