AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
WOTYA bows out to make way for new award not determined by sex.
The newly created Outstanding Contribution Awards will honour both men and women working behind the scenes in the music industry and related media
The Women Of The Year Awards for the music industry and related media has been scrapped in favour of an award open to both sexes.
Out of the ashes, however, will come the Outstanding Contribution Awards for the music industry and related media, due to be awarded in November.
The new awards, the brainchild of Women Of The Year Awards chair and EMI communications manager Karen Millard, are designed to celebrate the careers of both women and men, but in keeping with the Women Of The Year philosophy, the OCAs will acknowledge those working behind the scenes, rather than artists.
A new committee will be formed to produce the event, which will continue to raise funds for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the Brits Trust.
The Women Of The Year Awards was created in 1995 to redress the balance after the music industry's Man Of The Year Award dinner had celebrated its third year.
The Man of the Year Award subsequently changed its name to The Music Industry Trusts Award and recognised the achievements of a woman, Kylie Minogue, for the first time last year.