{"id":335,"date":"2017-10-21T09:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T02:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/billboard-the-winners-for-the-2017-big-apple-music-awards-have-been-announced\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T02:43:52","slug":"billboard-the-winners-for-the-2017-big-apple-music-awards-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/billboard-the-winners-for-the-2017-big-apple-music-awards-have-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard : The Winners For The 2017 Big Apple Music Awards Have Been Announced."},"content":{"rendered":"

Billboard News Online – The Big Apple Music Awards 2017<\/strong> are underway, and winners<\/strong> have already been announced. We are pleased to announce the list of the winners.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Diamond award is a special award of merit given by the Big Apple Music Award to recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums throughout their career.\u00a0This year Iraqi artist Kadim Al Sahir\u00a0has been awarded with Diamond Award. Kadim Al Sahir\u00a0 h established himself as one of the most successful singers in the history of the\u00a0Arab World, since the start of his career. Ranging from big\u00a0romantic ballads\u00a0to more\u00a0political\u00a0work, from\u00a0pop\u00a0to\u00a0Arab classical music.<\/p>\n

He performs with an orchestra of twenty to thirty musicians on Arabic percussion, oud, qanun, nay, and a full complement of strings (violin, cello, and bass). While some of his work makes use of electronic musical sounds, he avoids the use of synthesizers to imitate acoustic instruments. His work frequently features Iraqi folk instruments, rhythms and melodies.<\/p>\n

The Big Apple Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to “performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. “Yiannis Chryssomallis known professionally as\u00a0Yanni has been awarded this year with above mentioned, Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

The Legend Award, is a special award of merit given to recording artists by the Big Apple Music Awards Foundation for outstanding achievements in the music industry. This year Legend awards has been given to Carlos Santana. Carlos Santana is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. The band’s sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades.<\/p>\n

Each year Big Apple Music \u00a0Awards honors a musician with its\u00a0 Humanitarian Award\u00a0for music dedicated to social justice, humanitarian causes. The\u00a02017 award\u00a0goes to\u00a0Serj Tankian.<\/p>\n

Serj Tankian\u00a0 is a Lebanese-born\u00a0Armenian-American\u00a0singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, philosopher and political activist with Armenian descent. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional live rhythm guitarist of the metal band\u00a0System of a Down, formed in 1994.<\/p>\n

During his musical career, Tankian has released five albums with System of a Down, one with\u00a0Arto Tun\u00e7boyac\u0131yan\u00a0(Serart), as well as the five solo albums\u00a0Elect the Dead,\u00a0Imperfect Harmonies,\u00a0Harakiri,\u00a0Orca, and\u00a0Jazz-Iz-Christ. A live orchestral version of Elect the Dead incorporating the\u00a0Auckland Philharmonia Orchestranamed\u00a0Elect the Dead Symphony\u00a0was released. In 2002, Tankian and\u00a0Rage Against the Machine\/Audioslave\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Tom Morello\u00a0co-founded a non-profit political activist organization,\u00a0Axis of Justice. Tankian also founded the music label\u00a0Serjical Strike Records, and is represented by\u00a0Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group\u00a0under\u00a0System of a Down. On August 12, 2011, Tankian was awarded the Armenian Prime Minister’s Medal for his contributions to the recognition of the\u00a0Armenian Genocide\u00a0and the advancement of music.<\/p>\n

He is widely considered and ranked as one of the greatest vocalists in metal history,\u00a0with praise given to his unusual delivery and his wide vocal range. Serj Tankian is currently listed as one of the\u00a0Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists\u00a0by\u00a0Hit Parader, ranked at #26.\u00a0A study conducted by VVN Music found Tankian to possess a moderately-high and diverse vocal range, not only in metal, but in all of popular music, with a range of 4.2 octaves. This range is comparable to\u00a0Rob Halford,\u00a0Elvis Presley,\u00a0Freddie Mercury,\u00a0Anthony Kiedis,\u00a0Hansi K\u00fcrsch, and\u00a0Steven Tyler\u00a0(range of 4\u00a0octaves\u00a0and 1 note).<\/p>\n

The winners of the Big Apple Music Awards 2017 includes :\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n