At the start of the year, HR Cole, CEO and Founder of inDspotlight Television and Mikey Jayy, Program Director and Founder of KGUP FM Emerge Radio discussed having a festival over the Summer featuring all the top emerging artists, including hosting an Awards event in 2020, but Covid-19 upended all our ideas. We even thought of having an online event, but without a live audience, all these ideas felt flat and uninspiring, so we created a single category to recognize the Top 8 most recognizable emerging local music artists in the industry and named it the
2020 KGUP Artists of the Year award!
These 8 finalists were based on a number of factors:
1. Artist's music overall has to be SPECTACULAR
2. Artist has to be an exceptional songwriter and story teller
3. Artist had to have at least 3 songs that exemplified both 1 and 2
4. Artist has at least 1 music video that is outstanding in production and visual appeal
5. Artist must have gone through a revelation or had overcome a life changing event
6. Artist needs to acknowledge our existence (at bare minimum, the Artist needed to say, "Thank you" when getting featured on our social media or regrammed/shared our story from a featured post, accepted our invitation to be interviewed, or had exchanged some form of dialogue to and from KGUP
Congratulations to the 2020 KGUP Artists of the Year!
JENNA LOTTI
Genre: Pop / Singer Songwriter
Website: www.jennalotti.com
Listen to the interview with Jenna Lotti and discover why she was selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
KIDEYES
Genre: Pop/Alternative Rock Website: www.kideyesofficial.com
Listen to the interview with KidEyes to discover why they were selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
JANY GREEN
Genre: Pop/ Soul Website: Jany Green IG
Listen to the interview with Jany Green to discover why he was selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
JAGUAR JONZE
Genre: Pop Website: www.jaguarjonze.com
Listen to the interview with Jaguar Jonze to discover why she was selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
Genre: HIP HOP Website: Youtube.com/SantinoCorleonTV
Listen to the interview with SANTINO to discover why he was selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
Kat Leon of Holy Wars
Genre: Pop / Alternative
Website: www.holywarsmusic.com
KatLeonMusic IG
Pep Squad IG
Listen to the interview with Kat Leon to discover why she was selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
CHELSEA PERKINS
Genre: Pop / Soul Website: ChelseaPerkinsX IG
Listen to the interview with Chelsea Perkins to discover why she was selected as Artist of the Year HERE>>
WOLVES
Genre: Pop / Surf Trap Website: www.thebandwolves.com
Listen to the interview with Wolves to discover why they were selected as
Artist of the Year HERE>>
Thank you to all the participants that submitted music to us this year.
Keep sending and recommending new music to us and keep on listening to KGUP FM Emerge Radio and KGUP PRESENTS the podcast! Without the continued support by the musicians, listeners, and supporters, this platform would NOT EXIST!
Keep on the look out for more episodes of KGUP PRESENTS and subscribe on the podcast platform of your choice, so you don't miss these great interviews, plus you can even re-listen to previous episodes! If you would like to be considered to be a guest on KGUP PRESENTS, we are currently accepting submissions from anyone with great music or anyone with a great story to share. We'd love to hear from you! We will consider any topic! Contact us at kgup1065.com/contact
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