Dizzee Rascal, Lethal Bizzle and Kanye West also up for gongs
Amy Winehouse has been nominated for four MOBO – Music Of Black Origin – awards.
Yesterday (August 22) it was announced that the troubled singer, currently undertaking a drug rehab course in Essex, is nominated for the Best UK Female award, Best Song (for ‘Rehab’), Best Video (for ‘Back To Black’) and Best R&B award.
Dizzee Rascal, whose album ‘Maths And English’ is nominated for the Nationwide Mercury Prize award this year, was nominated in the Best UK Male, Best Song (for ‘Sirens’) and Best Hip-Hop categories.
Dizzee Rascal’s supposed nemesis and former mentor Wiley is nominated alongside him in the Best Hip-Hop category, creating a possible showdown scenario at the awards ceremony next month.
Elsewhere in the nominations list Lethal Bizzle was nominated alongside Rascal for the Best UK Male award. Kanye West was nominated for the Best International Act award, and Kano bagged a nomination alongside Rascal and Wiley in the Best Hip-Hop category.
The winners will be announced on September 21, with the awards ceremony broadcast on BBC1.
The nominations in full are:
Best UK Female
Amy Winehouse
Beverley Knight
Corinne Bailey Rae
Jamelia
Joss Stone
Best UK Male
Dizzee Rascal
Kano
Lethal Bizzle
Sway
Wiley
Best International Act
Akon
P Diddy
Kanye West
TI
Best Song
Amerie: ‘Take Control’
Amy Winehouse: ‘Rehab’
Dizzee Rascal: ‘Sirens’
Ne Yo: ‘Because Of You’
Robin Thicke: ‘Lost Without You’
Best UK Newcomer
Mutya Buena
N Dubz
Sadie Ama
Tinchy Stryder
Unklejam
Best Video
Amy Winehouse: ‘Back To Black’
Dizzee Rascal: ‘Sirens’
Kanye West: ‘Stronger’
Pussycat Dolls: ‘Wait A Minute’
Rihanna: ‘Umbrella’
Best Hip-Hop
50 Cent
Common
Dizzee Rascal
Kano
Kanye West
Best R&B
Akon
Amy Winehouse
Lemar
Nathan
Ne Yo
Best Reggae
Collie Buddz
Sean Kingston
Shaggy
Stephen Marley
Tony Matterhorn
Best Gospel
4 Kornerz
BlushUK
G-Force
Jahaziel
Priscilla Jones
Best DJ
Geroge Kay
Jigs
Rampage
Ras Kwame
Ronnie Herel
Semtex
Shortee Blitz
Steve Sutherland
Tim Westwood
Trevor Nelson
Best Jazz
Abram Wilson
Byron Wallen
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Soweto Kinch
Wynton Marsalis
Best African Act
Nominees still being compiled – winners will be voted for by African music fans via mobile phone.
