Today in Helsinki/Finland, JAAKKO EINO KALEVI was announced as the second winner of the 2017 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA), the European music awards for emerging artists. Kalevi was surprised at Uuden musiikin aamuvuoro by YLEX’s Anne Lainto.
Combining synth-pop, folk, funk, and psych-rock into trippy experimental pop, multi-instrumentalist Jaako Eino Kalevi developed his distinctive own brand of songwriting. Having performed at Eurosonic Noorderslag in 2014, his 2015 self-titled album arrived via Domino imprint Weird World and was greeted with universal acclaim. Over 2016, Kalevi performed live from Los Angeles and Mexico to a wide range of European countries.
Earlier, Alan Walker (no) was also announced as an EBBA winner. A total of ten EBBA winners will be announced in the upcoming weeks. The Awards Ceremony takes place on January 11th in Groningen, as part of the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival.
The EBBA
EBBA celebrate new and border-breaking artists who create today and tomorrow’s music.
From Adele (United Kingdom) to Christine & the Queens (France), the EBBA winners represent some of the standout European sounds of recent years. Other previous winners include Stromae, Gabriel Rios, Hozier, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford & Sons, Aurora, Disclosure, John Newman, C2C, Tokio Hotel, The Script, Years and Years, Robin Schulz, Carnival Youth, MØ and Selah Sue.
From the group of enthusiastic gig-goers out on the weekend to the industry dedicated to making the music you love, Music Moves Europe. EBBA are one of the EU’s ways of celebrating European popular and contemporary music by bringing the artists, the industry and the fans together to celebrate European music.
Every year, 10 European artists receive an EBBA to recognise their success in countries other than their own.
This success is measured by:
- Airplay
- Sales
- Live performances in Europe
- position in the European Border Breakers Charts
The European Border Breakers Charts, launched earlier this year and compiled by Radiomonitor, rank tracks from around Europe based on airplay abroad.
To be eligible for the 2017 awards, the artists must have achieved border-breaking success with their first international release in Europe between 1 August 2015 and 31 July 2016 and come from a country participating in the EU’s Creative Europe programme.
The EBBA, now in their 14th year, are an EU Prize, organised by Eurosonic Noorderslag in partnership with the European Commission (Creative Europe) and the European Broadcasting Union, with support from Buma Cultuur, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Province of Groningen, the City of Groningen and Music Week.
Public choice
One of the winners will receive a Public Choice Award based on votes cast on the EBBA website from the end of November 2016 to Christmas. Up to ten voters, chosen at random from different countries, will be invited to the award ceremony: each will be able to bring a friend and the flight and hotel costs will be taken care of.
EBBA ceremony
The winners will receive their award in a ceremony hosted by TV personality and musician Jools Holland at the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in Groningen, Netherlands, on January 11, 2017. The ceremony will feature performances by the winning acts.
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