India’s Radio City 91.1 FM is back with the 3rd edition its Freedom Awards – a platform to recognize and reward independent music artists across genres and languages. 

The awards are open to entries from Indian artists across the globe in 11 categories.

These include Best Hip-Hop Rap Artist, Best Folk Fusion Artist, Best Pop Artist, Best Rock, Best Metal, Best Electronica Artist, Best Video, Best Album Art, Best Young Indie Artist/Band, Best Indie Collaboration of the year and Indie Genius- Person of the year.

This theme for this year’s awards is ‘Music and Beyond’ which will showcase spoken word artists in a special segment in the grand finale.

Shortlisted entries will be judged by a panel of judges including Luke Kenny, Atul Churamani, Yotam Agam and Nandini Srikar. 

The winners will be felicitated on the award night in Mumbai at the end of February featuring performances by leading indie musicians.

Abraham Thomas, CEO Radio City 91.1 FM said: “Radio City Freedom Awards aims to celebrate the essence of independent music & provide a platform to promote ‘alternate’ music in the country. It fulfils the need gap for recognition in the independent music space. This is a global platform that pits the best of indie musicians against each other & provides an interface between the emerging fresh talent and the stalwarts in the industry. Expect to witness sparklers of talent in the Radio City Freedom Awards this year as well.”

 Elaborating further, Rachna Kanwar Business and Digital Media & New Business Head said: “Radio City Freedom Awards has managed to carve a niche for itself and has become the most awaited recognition amongst the indie fraternity. With the amazing response that we received in the last two editions, the idea is to take it a notch higher this year. In this edition, we go a step further with ‘Music and Beyond’ to showcase the spoken word artists along with the Indie musicians.”

Entries can be submitted on www.planetradiocity.com/rcfa.