vuelven los premios Amigo

After a long period of absence and with supposed new airs, the Friend Awards. Está será su VIII edición.

The Pemios Amigo They were born a little more than 10 years old (1997) by Promusicae, association of spanish producers.

With seven editions, the promoters of these awards made the decision in 2003 to suspend them alleging, according to them of course, the harshness of the record crisis. They say that the musical scene has not improved much but that “We want to say loudly that we continue to believe in music as one of the most exciting artistic expressions, fascinating and enriching things that human beings have been able to conceive”, according to Antonio Guisasola, current president of Promusicae.

The awards and statuettes designed by Javier Mariscal will experience an eighth edition on 27 November 2007, in the Pice Circus Madrid.

These awards will continue to count on the assistance of Prince Philip as Honorary President and ensure that there will be many new features. Some of these innovations are the inclusion of new categories such as the most successful internet and mobile phone downloads or a special public category where through a voting system, All people will be able to vote and thus choose the winner of the Friend for the Public award.

Awards that have been surrounded by controversy and that Virgin I challenge in his day. The press release sent to the media and to the organization of the AFYVE awards, Virgin, owned by EMI, accused the organization that promotes the awards of celebrating awards “denaturalized” for not including any of the artists they have on their payroll. They were somewhat right since Amaral was not there when that same year they won the award for best Spanish band at the MTV Europe Music Awards. They also excluded groups such as The Tony Manero Foundation, Astrud or José Merce.