Honouring the talent in Indian music and those who have created music with the power to touch millions of lives, the Global Indian Music Academy Awards has become a highly coveted award for the music makers and singers of Indian music, not only Hindi films but in all its forms. GiMA is the only music awards platform with a voting process based on peer-to-peer recognition. Nominees are selected by a Jury of over 30 eminent members from the music & film industry and later presented to the GiMA Academy for the final voting. The Academy’s votes are then tabulated and the winner’s declared at a fabulous ceremony. This year, hosted by the ever fabulous Ranveer Singh and with show stopping performances the winner’s were announced. The ceremony will televise on February 9th.
Best Playback Singer Male – Arijit Singh for ‘Tum Hi Ho’ (Aashiqui 2 )
Best Playback Singer Female – Shreya Ghoshal for ‘Sun Raha Hai Na Tu’ (Aashiqui 2)
Star Plus Nayi Soch Award – ‘Monta Re’ from Lootera
Best Duet – Rekha Bhardwaj and Tochi Raina for ‘Kabira’ (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
Best Music Debut – Ankit Tiwari for ‘Sun Raha Hai Na Tu’ (Aashiqui 2)
Best Background Score – Shankar Ehsaan Loy for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Best Lyricist – Swanand Kirkire for ‘Maanja’ (Kai Po Che)
Best Music Arranger – Hyacinth D’Souza, DJ Phukan, Nikhil Paul George, Sunny M. R. ‘Badtameez Dil’ from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Best Engineer for a Film Album – Eric Pillai (Aashiqui 2 )
Best Film Song – ‘Tum Hi Ho’ (Aashiqui 2 )
Best Music Director – Pritam (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
Best Film Album – Aashiqui 2
Most Popular Song on Radio – Lungi Dance from Chennai Express
Global Music Icon Award – Anoushka Shankar
Global Musician Honour – Dr L Subramaniam
Wizcraft Honour for Best Live Performer – Raghu Dixit
Lifetime Achievement Award for Classical Music – Padma Vibhushan Pandit Ram Narayan
Music Living Legend Award – Asha Bhosle
Best Music Debut Award Shilpa Rao ‘Dum Dum’ Coke Studio @ MTV – Season 2 (Ep 8)
Best Hindustani Classical Album Vocal – Rachid Khan
Best Pop Album – Ram Sampath for ‘Satyamev Jayate’
Best Indie Song: ‘Madari’ by Clinton Cerejo, Vishal Dadlani, Sonu Kakkar
Best Rock Album: 3 Wheels 9 Lives by Thermal And A Quarter
Best Fusion Album: Clinton Cerejo featuring Various Artistes- Coke Studio @ MTV Season 2 Episode 1
Best Folk Album: Amit Trivedi Featuring Various Artistes Coke Studio @ MTV – Season 2 Episode 3
Best Classical Carnatic Music Vocal – K S Chitra for Vande Matram
Best Electronic Music – Bandish Project
Best Devotional Music – Harshdeep Kaur for Ik On’kar
Best Hindustani Classical Album – Vocal: Ustad Rashid Khan – One & Only One Rashid
Best Hindustani Classical Album – Instrumental: Ustad Zakir Hussain – Zakir Hussain Selects
Best Ghazal Album – Jagjit Singh for ‘Master and his Magic’
