Stephen Emmer wins 2018 Independent Music Award for Best Spoken Word Song ‘Soil’ ft Ursula Rucker
Dutch music-composer/artist Stephen Emmer received both the voxpop and the professionally judged award in the category Best Spoken Word Song for his song called Soil featuring Ursula Rucker (The Roots,King Britt a.o.). This was announced at the 16th annual anniversary of the Independent Music Awards, or the IMA’s, at an event held in the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Earlier this year he already received two other awards by the Global Music Awards organisation in Los Angeles for his current album Home Ground in the categories Best Humanitarian Music project and Best Album. This now brings a total of four awards for this socially engaged anti-war music project, which now makes it the first time ever that a Dutch composer/artist has been granted so many awards for american music organisations.
Thus far in the past only the world famous Dutch classical music conductor Bernard Haitink received 3 USA awards. Ursula Rucker, who is from Philadelphia, is widely seen as an authority on spoken word and has so far never before won an award in her own country and is delighted with this recognition.
I am very grateful that my current work has been picked op so well
Stephen Emmer: ‘I am very grateful that my current work has been picked up so well through all these awards and much critical acclaim in your country and because of this I now get serious response from all over the world, from Japan via Europe to South America next to America!’
