There is only one week left to vote for your favourite nominee! 🗳️
Make sure to cast your vote on www.mmeawards.eu before it closes on January 6th.
Meet @monikaze__, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 She is a versatile composer and electronic music producer from Lithuania. Her music is described as avant-pop, combining her raw and manipulated vocals with different electronic and acoustic textures.
Vote for Monikaze now #linkinbio
Meet The Haunted Youth, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 They are a Belgium-based band whose music is about despair, hope, and the feeling of being a misunderstood misfit. The songs rock hard, but they are coated in a rich and dreamy international sound. Their debut single ‘Teen Rebel’ certainly hit the mark and the band is getting a lot of international airplay.
Vote for @thehauntedyouth_official now #linkinbio
Meet schmyt, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 This artist from Germany quickly went from being an insider tip to a highly-wanted songwriter. He has the ambition to reshape pop music and wants to break away from the cliché that men always have to be strong. His voice transports vulnerabilities and intense emotions in a remarkable way.
Vote for @derschmyt now #linkinbio
Meet Sans Soucis, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆! An Italian singer that wants to bring back the raw authenticity and happiness of childhood to her listeners. She blends classical Italian song writing, alternative R&B, electronica and Congolese Rumba influences.
Vote for @sanssoucismusic now #linkinbio
Meet Queralt Lahoz, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆! A Spanish artist blessed with one of the most powerful voices on the scene. Queralts music is dotted with Latin and urban influences and is rooted in tradition, drawing on the family tree of working-class women, and traces a bridge between past, present and future.
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Meet OSKA, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆! The Austrian singer OSKA studied jazz singing in Vienna and gained her first live experiences as a street musician in the Austrian capital. She sings about failed relationships, family ties and her longing for an ideal world.
Vote for @goodoldoska now #linkinbio
Meet KOIKOI, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 KOIKOI consists of a bunch of creatives from the vibrant Belgrade music scene. Their music is a unique mix of psychedelic rock, new wave and Serbian folk music. With this combination they transform the stage into a magical place that radiates pure joy to their audience.
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Meet Kids Return, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 The French best-buddy-duo Adrien Rozé and Clément Savoye intentionally compose and produce their music on analogue equipment. The result is a unique sound and melancholic melodies.
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Meet July Jones, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 Fashionable outfits and edgy electro-pop songs – that's July Jones from Slovenia in a nutshell. She speaks frankly about queerness, relationships and mental health issues and has established herself as an in-demand songwriter.
Vote for @julyjones now #linkinbio
Meet Jerry Heil, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 She is a star from Ukraine who inspires millions of viewers on YouTube with her songs and shares an important message against the war with the world.
Vote for @thejerryheil now #linkinbio
Meet Hause Plants, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 This up-and-coming indie band that moved from Portugal to Brooklyn, New York to make music and expand their repertoire of catchy melodies and intoxicating sound.
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Meet Dutch artist Goldkimono, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 His debut single was produced by Crada, a collaboration of Drake, Kid Kudi and Kendrick Lamar. Call it a feeling, an aesthetic, or a mood – to Goldkimono it's all energy.
Vote for @goldkimono now #linkinbio
Meet eee gee, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 Emma Grankvist is an up-and-coming star from Denmark. Her light-hearted music evokes melancholy, hope and self-irony at the same time. This year, she played at Roskilde Festival, Reeperbahn and sold out her first headline show.
Vote for eee gee @emmagrankvist now #linkinbio
Meet CMAT, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 She’s a global pop star from Ireland whose debut tour sold out in hours. Even though her songs are full of melancholy, they also convey levity and express CMATs great sense of humour.
Vote for @cmatbaby now #linkinbio
Meet Amelie Siba, one of the nominees for the 2023 MME Awards 🏆 She is a singer songwriter from Prague who sings about growing up, finding yourself and the insecurities you encounter along the way. This breakthrough talent recorded and produced her debut album ‘Dye my Hair’ completely on her own.
Vote for @amm.sib #linkinbio
Meet the 2023 nominees!
Amelie Siba (Czechia), CMAT (Ireland), eee gee (Denmark), Goldkimono (Netherlands), Hause Plants (Portugal), JERRY HEIL (Ukraine), July Jones (Slovenia), Kids Return (France), KOIKOI (Serbia), Monikaze (Lithuania), OSKA (Austria), Queralt Lahoz (Spain), Sans Soucis (Italy), Schmyt (Germany), The Haunted Youth (Belgium).
Visit www.mmeawards.eu to learn more about these amazing artists and cast your vote.
Alina Pash - interview
Alina Pash is a Ukrainian artist and one of the winners at the 2022 Music Moves Europe Awards. We interviewed Alina Pash seven months after winning an MME Awards to see how she is doing.
PS. On the 12th of October we are announcing the next round of MME Awards nominees. Stay tuned!
Catch us at Reeperbahn Festival this week!
With performances by: Ladaniva, Blanks, Denise Chaila, Meskerem Mees, Friedberg, Francis of Delirium and Alyona Alyona!
mmeawards.eu/newsitems/mme-awards-at-reeperbahn
Alina Pash at the Music Moves Europe Awards 2022
A throwback to when Ukrainian artist Alina Pash received her Music Moves Europe Awards award. A very touching speech at the time, but even more with the knowledge of today.
Support Ukrainian artists and find out what you can do to help via https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ways-to-help-ukraine-conflict/
Meet Blanks!
Meet Blanks! He is the Dutch nominee for the Music Meets Europe Awards. He will be performing during the Awards ceremony on January the 20th. Check out our website to learn more about Blanks and the other nominees!
www.mmeawards.eu
One week left to vote
There is only one week left to vote for the Public Choice Award. Who will win? Vote for your favourite at www.mmeawards.eu.
Gefeliciteerd Blanks! 🇳🇱 Imagine smooth pop music, happiness and (over)-excited yelling, and you've got Blanks. This tall Dutch musician rapidly build an international fanbase through his YouTube channel, starting at the age of 15 and now attracting over 1 million subscribers. His 'style swaps' have led to collaborations with DJ Armin Van Buuren, and Ariana Grande gave him love for ‘Thank U, Next.’ In 2020 Blanks put out the cheerful compilation 'Cheap Sodas and Ice Cream Kisses', and his long-awaited debut album is in the works.
Vote for #MME_Awards nominee Blanks at
https://mmeawards.eu/artist/blanks/
¡Felicidades Dora! 🇪🇸 Born into an artistic family, DORA showed her musical talent from a young age. After a successful YouTube covers channel and singing in a big band, her solo music career took off with acoustic single ‘Call Me Back’. DORA quickly caught people’s attention with a string of surprising singles. She prefers thrilling musical adventures with producers like Pional (The XX, John Talabot), and, by experimenting with sounds from bolero to UK garage and indie electronic, DORA expresses her non-conformist and rebellious spirit.
Vote for #MME_Awards nominee DORA at
https://mmeawards.eu/artist/dora
Félicitations Mezerg! 🇫🇷 Amazing multi-talented instrumentalist Mezerg is a pioneer of modern music technology and one of the most creative musicians you’re likely to come across. Hands and feet linked to his instrument, the Frenchman makes electronic music from unexpected elements, with rhythms that ranged from funk to acid techno, improvising with keyboards, effects pedals and the theremin which has become emblematic of his project.
Vote for #MME_Awards nominee Mezerg at
https://mmeawards.eu/artist/mezerg/
Gratulálok Дeva! 🇭🇺 Дeva is a fully DIY solo project by the 20 year-old Budapest-based musician, Dorina Takács. She writes and produces her own tracks, sings and also designs her artwork. Her music features atmospheric, smooth sounds, pulsating bass lines and polyphonic mantras inspired by magical Hungarian folk songs. Her highly anticipated debut album will be out this winter on Move Gently Records. On stage Дeva performs with a four-piece band.
Vote for #MME_Awards nominee Дeva /Deva/ at
https://mmeawards.eu/artist/дeva/
Parabéns Nenny! 🇵🇹 Nenny comes from Vialonga, a suburb of Lisbon. As a teenager, she moved to France and, more recently, to Luxembourg. In 2018, she decided she wanted to become an artist. To achieve this, she created an Instagram where she posted covers. Now Nenny is a rising Portuguese R&B artist, delivering on the promise with her 2020 album ‘Aura’.
Vote for #MME_Awards nominee NENNY at
https://mmeawards.eu/artist/nenny/
Herzliche Glückwünsche Friedberg! 🇦🇹 Friedberg is the brainchild of Austrian-born, London based Anna Friedberg. The 4-piece, all female band are a tour-de-force of gritty rock energy combined with unforgettable pop melodies and otherworldly vocals. Anna perfected her song craft writing under different artist names, culminating in Friedberg.
Vote for #MME_Awards nominee Friedberg Music at
https://mmeawards.eu/artist/friedberg/
The Music Moves Europe Charts Top 100 welcomes a new #1 as ODEN & Fatzo's 'Lauren' climbs up to the top. The highest newcomer of the week is 'All Being Fine' by King Hannah.
Go to https://mmeawards.eu/charts/ for the full chart
