{"id":716942,"date":"2026-06-05T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:24:09","slug":"kanya-king-who-founded-mobo-awards-to-champion-black-music-dies-at-57-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716942\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanya King, who founded Mobo Awards to champion black music, dies at 57 &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBDM2oxNmYtZ19KbHNKQUlYMGEySWZzRW5WNjBxNldRbzJYZDN6Q0NhWEVSeEY2MWo3cUVreFViSjdoVkdKTkpXR3dTakJKLXNvU3RLYTBvUTRJZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kanya King, who founded Mobo Awards to champion black music, dies at 57<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxPdmN0cjk1SnBxY0tqLWpvNmlsa3NkTmIwT1NlZnRYSzlFZ0FMd3FYMjUwQTZ0eWJtNDMwaFF1TlJQN0lzWjhkLUdCX3VTOVduR2lwOFZKOWtiVi04RE5mYmRrWDJHVFVHeEtGZFRndEl2anlkTzl3X2tfQkloLWZxU19PUGEtdThCTWRKS244b0RVb2dhekdFTndsbC1Kc3AzOE5fVmpUcHZHZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">With warmth, kindness and unlimited energy, Kanya King revolutionised Black British culture<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxQSGdEN3RvWXgtYzBzOC1XZWVhLTNETDZVTFZod2RET3dZdFI3YjVSWnRrT2VKTE53bG0xT05DUENqNVQ1bFFKYkVkbXlIaXJTb0pQS2pCeUFmNjQ1SXIxcE1yT2FsdzNGTWVFLVF1aXVra3JsbHFfbDVjanFKNmlUak1CbUhGUHZIelhGR3pVdFE3amFIMEtuLXJtdGFsR05EV0VWRm9hX0VweVZpdmZLN0Z6YjdmUGdUU1VqOGRoakFqcVBRQUhSVw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In Pictures: Celebrating black music champion and Mobo Awards founder Kanya King<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxOa0lhX2tkcWE4aVNaa1JMdUZzTGkyaG9EOU9xT0RheVZmWkVKSHl3RGppbFpvNG5MRnZGSkZ6LWk3VGtHY09WVHBobGctdlB2S1ZpbFFQVlBGQmQ2b0RtZFkwOHY0Y1RtbWhoOVRKR29hUHhBYTE0YkU3TktDZzdVM3RXZGVxU09OWjQ3b0pOdGpLWFkzS29qU19HQ1BGVEQ1YUF1TXdLQ2tnUDE2ckh4V3A4TkRNVDQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kanya King, founder of Mobo awards for Black British music, dies aged 57<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanya King, who founded Mobo Awards to champion black music, dies at 57&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCWith warmth, kindness and unlimited energy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-716942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}