Hi Guys,

Hope you’re all cool!  Wow…what a week!  Absolute madness!  So I thought I’d jump on here and scribble a bit about it for u guys…

So the long awaited UK AMAs finally took place on Thursday and what a night – it was great to see UK Asian Music being recognised in such a cool way with nearly everyone in the industry attending and it felt so awesome to be a part of it!  As I’m sure you guys know by now, although I was nominated for the Best Newcomer award I didn’t win it this year – the award went to Jaz Dhami.  I remember that moment so vividly when Nihal was up on stage to announce the winner and it was just such an adrenaline rush – I’m sure everyone nominated for an award that night must’ve felt their hearts pounding in the same way during the announcement of the winners.    It was my first time up for being nominated for an award and the experience was great!

I was also selected as one of the guest presenters to announce and give out the award for Best International Album along with Kiss 100 presenter Neev and the Director of the Indian Tourism Board!  I was so proud to announce Gurdaas Maan Ji’s name on stage as the winner and the crowd went wild!!! 

There was a huge array of live performances this year ranging from Rishi Rich Productions to Shayal and Jagged Edge, and the big winner of the night was Jay Sean who took away 3 awards!  It was also great to see Rishi Rich pick up the Commitment to the Scene Award and A.R Rahman win the Lifetime Acheivement Award.  Whilst I would’ve loved to win the Best Newcomer Award, I left the Awards night feeling proud to be a part of such a huge celebration of UK Asian Music, and felt more inspired than ever.  You can see some photos from the night on my facebook profile!

And on the same night I was also taking Mr Kay’s show on Clubasia for an hour – had soooooo much random fun!    As a result of presenting – I’ve received several radio presenting opportunities (wuhu!) and Mr Kay has offered me a day to take over his show for the full 3 hours live including a live acoustic performance!  If you missed the takeover, I’ll try and get a copy from Mr Kay and upload some snippets up here!

Thank you so much to everyone who logged on and voted for me at the AMAs – guys I really do appreciate it.  Coming back to all of your messages afterwards really helped fire me up even more – it’s so great to have your loyal support and it’s great to have you all on this journey with me!

I’m going to be announcing some VERY exciting news to everyone on my mailing list real soon…so if you haven’t joined already make sure u do so at www.navin-online.com.

Take care,

Navin