[ The 12th MACP Awards 2008 ]

MACP AWARDS 2008 The 12th MACP Awards 2008 was successfully held on Friday, 18 April 2008. For the first time, it was held outside Kuala Lumpur to bring the event closer to the people in Kuantan. With the cooperation of Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), for the 2nd consecutive year, it was telecast live by RTM1 at 8.45 pm starting with the Red Carpet and followed by the show which began at 9.00 pm. In conjunction with this year’s telecast, besides the traditional awards based on royalty distribution, the finals of the “Juara Kepada Juara” (“JKJ”) competition was also held. Unlike most music awards with emphasize on the popularity of the artistes, the JKJ competition aims to expose the public quality songs. The winners were determined by a panel of professional jury which took into consideration four main components in a song ie the melody, lyric, music arrangement and artiste performance. Individual awards based on these catergories ie “Best Melody”; “Best Lyric”, “Best Music Arrangement” and “Best Vocal (in an album) & Best Performance (live) & “Best Song” were announced at the end of the show. After almost 2 months of vetting through almost 1,500 songs published and recorded by Malaysians between 1 January 2007 to 28 February 2008, the songs which made it to the finals were :- “Hati” - Composer : Sharon Paul, Lyricist : Shuhaimi Baba, Arranger : Sham Kamikaze, Artiste : Datuk Siti Nurhaliza; “Izinku Pergi” - Composer & Arranger : Azlan Abu Hassan & Lyricist : Sulu Sarawak, Artiste : Kaer Azami; “Kau Yang Satu” - Composer, Lyricist, Arranger  & Artiste : Hafiz Hamidun; “The Stage” - Composer & Lyricist : Ash Nair, Arranger : Ash Nair & JD Wong, Artiste : Ash Nair; and “Revolution” - Composer : SilentScream, Lyricist : John Oommen, Arranger : Yam Wern-Jhien/Reshmonu, Artiste : SilentScream   Except for the song “Izinku Pergi” which was delivered by Nassier Abu Wahab that night; all the other 4 songs were performed by their original artistes. The winner of the Best Song Award received cash prize of RM10,000 plus trophy while winners of the other 5 awards received cash prize of RM3,000 plus trophy. The full list of winners of the  awards presented that night was: BIL KATEGORI TAJUK PENYANYI PEMENANG   1 KATEGORI PERSEMBAHAN TERBANYAK :  - LAGU INGGERIS PARTY LIKE THIS VE SHAH VE; DAMIAN VE & LAH VE 2  - LAGU CINA : TONG HUA MICHAEL WONG MICHAEL WONG (GUANG LIANG)   3    - LAGU MELAYU : ADUH SALIHA MAWI M NASIR  & LOLOQ   4  - LAGU LUAR  NEGARA : PAAKAATHA TIPPU G DEVI SRI PRASAD & N MUTHU KUMARAN    5 LAGU : KATEGORI PENDAPATAN LUAR NEGARA TERTINGGI TONG HUA MICHEL WONG  MICHAEL WONG (GUANG LIANG)   6 KOMPOSER MUDA BERPOTENSI     NUR FATIMA   7 PENULIS LIRIK DENGAN PENDAPATAN TERTINGGI     ROSLI KHAMIS (LOLOQ   8 KOMPOSER DENGAN PENDAPATAN TERTINGGI     M NASIR   9 NADI CIPTA     ABDUL MANNAN NGAH   10 JKJ : SUSUNAN MUZIK TERBAIK HATI SITI NURHALIZA SHAM KAMIKAZE 11 JKJ : LIRIK TERBAIK REVOLUTION> SILENT SCREAM JOHN OOMMEN 12 JKJ : MELODI TERBAIK KAU YANG SATU HAFIZ HAFIZ HAMIDUN 13 JKJ : VOKAL TERBAIK (DALAM ALBUM) REVOLUTION SILENT SCREAM SILENTSCREAM (JOHN OOMMEN, YAM WERN-JHIEN, IRWAN HAADI, ANDREW YAP, TAN HIANG LIANG) 14 JKJ : PERSEMBAHAN TERBAIK REVOLUTION SILENT SCREAM SILENTSCREAM (JOHN OOMMEN, YAM WERN-JHIEN, IRWAN HAADI, ANDREW YAP, TAN HIANG LIANG) 15 LAGU TERBAIK KAU YANG SATU HAFIZ HAFIZ HAMIDUN   Recipients of the 2 awards namely ”Komposer Muda Berpotensi’ (aged 25 years & below) and the Nadi Cipta Award were selected by MACP’s Music Development Fund (MDF) Committee                                                                                                                                     Amongst the presenters of the awards were Kumpulan Spider & M Nasir, Farah & Fredo, Zubir Ali, Juwita Suwito, Anne & Wafi, Pak Ngah & Noryn Aziz. Guest artistes were performed were Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, Ziana Zain, Meet Uncle Hussein, Noryn Aziz, Bob AF, Mohaizam, Sabihah, and Alif Azfar. Emcees Bob Lokman & Raianna were in The event was held at the RTM’s newest auditorium, Auditorum Komplek Penyiaran Pahang before a crowd of 800. Many thanks to Y Bhg Dato’ Rahman Hamid, Ketua Pengarah Penyiaran RTM, Y Bhg Dato’ Adillah Shek Omar, Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Penyiaran RTM, Producer Mohd Yusni & everyone who are involved in making this event a success!

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