Vagrant Real Estate thanked the judging panel on stage, and said: “The shortlist was unbelievable this year – there’s so much talent in this country.<\/p>\n
“The album is full of collaborators from all across the country.<\/p>\n
“I just want to say to anybody who’s trying to make a career in music who doesn’t live on the central belt where you might feel the industry’s attention is – I’m from Aberdeen. Let’s go.”<\/p>\n
Robert Kilpatrick, creative director of the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA), said: “Bringing together 25 Scottish artists, it’s an unapologetically Scottish record that pushes the boundaries of Scottish hip-hop while drawing deeply from our shared cultural and musical heritage.”<\/p>\n
Nikhita was named The Sound of Young Scotland, winning a funding package worth up to \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n
And Boards of Canada – originally from Cullen in Moray – won the Modern Scottish Classic Award for their 1998 debut album “Music Has The Right to Children”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vagrant Real Estate thanked the judging panel on stage, and said: “The shortlist was unbelievable this year –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-826108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}