Music awards handed out

This year’s Faroe Music Awards (FMA) show was unlike any previous awards show in the country.

At the last minute, the organisers decided to conduct the show without a live audience in accordance with recommendation from health authorities amid the current coronavirus concerns.

All music performances had been prerecorded earlier that day, and only a handful of people were present at the show, which was televised live.

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A total of 16 awards were handed out, with four groups or individuals taking home two awards each.

This year’s FMA winners were:

Female singer of the year: Jasmin

Male singer of the year: Pól Arni Holm

Song of the year: Kostbar - Ingi Poulsen

Album of the year: I Know It’s Over - Jasmin

Band or individual of the year: Joe & The Shitboys

Singer or instrumentalist of the year: Janus Rasmussen

Ensemble or choir of the year: Tórshavnar Big Band

Album or concert of the year: Klingra - Afenginn

Composition of the year: Songs of solitude and night - Sunleif Rasmussen

New name of the year: Marius DC

Video of the year: Fremmed - The River (by Atli Brix Kamban)

Lyric of the year: Klingra - Afenginn

Album artwork of the year: Catch - Plúmm (by Annika Arge Gregoriussen)

Producer of the year: Janus Rasmussen

The audience award: Ingi Poulsen

Lifetime achievement award: Kristian Blak

Performers at the FMA 2020 were:

Funksjón

Marius DC

Ernst Remmel & Rasmus Vigant Samuelsen

Stanley Samuelsen

Hamradun

Ingi Poulsen

Reality Bytes

Flowin

Fróði Hansen

Lyon

Joe & The Shitboys

Translated by prosa.fo