{"id":685889,"date":"2026-06-05T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685889\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:51:09","slug":"kanya-king-who-founded-mobo-awards-to-champion-black-music-dies-at-57-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685889\/","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\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxOd0JDZk5mTEk5YjY1ZElnVS05NFY5X2JNdUdTRFpNNFRqcWdzLVRtVVFuRVRaekVzSDVoWkRpektpN0gtUVA2V1dkRnNKRTYtbWR4NlFRTE9ORmlLMXVka0JHeUtBS2RJN1FaM0F5QmxsT0taTFd6TG13YzRNcl9WTVE5SXZPSnl6cDFfYk13eWoydEZUZ0hWREpob08?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kanya King, MOBOs Founder and Black Music Champion, Dies at 57 Following Cancer Diagnosis<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxPVy1XV3RDTEc0TGg1N2RYdW5jdDMzMWd2WS1vQUJLLVNsaVp2a1ZCUWJhY0oyam1XTlQ1QU5DZGpQQVpyXzdEOENCeURQNmNtRmNpeGthWmtWVHhxM3hVODFOZFd6LUdMVEtWLTNYbDA1aFU5WFRWUURKdHhKdVFwczNFV0NVS3hwZUpIdUV5ZEpNV3pmdklIejd6TU5oTlJhTHc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kanya King, entrepreneur who made a spectacular success of the Mobo Awards for black music<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<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<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxOZ18wc1hhZ0R3ZWVKd2R2VmZXb2VGMmk3dVo4b2VFQnVmSGZJWEk2M0hibHZ3TFlaWjZEVE9SV3doSEt4WS1mc21yaWhfMm9QZWV5TVN4T1E4VkFMLTNqeUhrcG1wUEVLclIzb25ONmpBX2xXWkJrTFdud29jZFQtb2YwZmRMODJHWS1jeGpJdTlUcWFWNXY0VlVyQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mobo Awards founder Kanya King dies aged 57<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanya King, who founded Mobo Awards to champion black music, dies at 57&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCKanya King, MOBOs Founder and Black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-685889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}