WOMEX AWARDS * Danyèl Waro Receives WOMEX 10 Award for Artists

(Photo: Philippe Conrath) WOMEX is proud to announce the winner of the WOMEX 10 Award for Artists: Danyèl Waro, the uncompromising maloya hero from Reunion Island.

He will perform on Sunday morning, 31 October 2010, during the Awards Ceremony accompanied by a WOMEX Networking Breakfast, both open to WOMEX delegates only. The laudation will be offered by Jaana-Maria Jukkara, Director of the Global Music Centre in Finland celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Philippe Conrath, whose Cobalt label has released Danyèl Waro's music for the past ten years, writes "If Danyèl Waro always wanted to remain free and to lead his career to his own rhythm - a rhythm embedded in the earth, in the good son of a farmer who knew the work of the fields from a tender age - he has nevertheless, in the course of these last fifteen years, played at the biggest European festivals."

• article submitted by: Anna Pötzsch, piranha womex AG (expo)

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