BBC Radio 3 World Music Award Nominees Announced

The nominations for world music fans' favorite award show, the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, have been announced at WOMEX (the World Music trade fair) in Seville, Spain recently. As always, the nominations came from different corners of the world with names like Camille, Ben Harper, Gogol Bordello, Ojos De Brujo making it among the nominees. The Album of the Year category is decided by a world panel of critics organised by fRoots Magazine and voting for the final category, the Audience Award, opens on 1 January 2007.

The winners will be announced on March 31st, 2007 on Radio 3's World Routes show and the Winners' Concert will be held on May 27th, 2007 at the Barbican in London.


BBC Radio 3 World Music Award 2007 Nominees:
Americas
Ben Harper (US)
Fonseca (Colombia)
Gogol Bordello (US)
Lila Downs (Mexico/US)

Africa
Ali Farka Toure (Mali)
Bongo Maffin (SA)
Mahmoud Ahmed (Ethiopia)
Toumani Diabate (Mali)

Middle East / North Africa
Les Boukakes (Algeria/France)
Ghada Shbeir (Lebanon)
Natacha Atlas (UK/Egypt)
Yasmin Levy (Israel)

Asia-Pacific
Anoushka Shankar (India)
Dadawa (China)
Debashish Bhattacharya (India)
Fat Freddy's Drop (NZ)

Europe
Camille (France)
Lo'jo (France)
Mariza (Portugal)
Ojos de Brujo (Spain)

Culture Crossing
Aida Nadeem (Iraq/Denmark)
Maurice el Medioni and Roberto Rodriguez (Algeria-France/Cuba-US)
Ska Cubano (UK/Cuba/Jamaica)
Think Of One (Belgium)

Newcomer
Etran Finatawa (Niger)
K'naan (Somalia)
Nuru Kane (Senegal)
Sara Tavares (Portugal)

Club Global
Balkan Beat Box (US)
Cheb I Sabbah (Algeria/US)
Gotan Project (France/Argentina)
Mercan Dede (Turkey/Canada)