10th Anniversary Alabama Music Awards | Sunday July 28, 2024
Bessemer Civic Center 1130 9th Avenue SW Bessemer, Al. 35022
In 1969, at age 13, Sanders joined a Southern gospel quartet playing drums and recorded 3 albums. Then in 1974, at age 18, Sanders joined a contemporary Christian group, The New Life Singers, to play drums. This allowed him the opportunity to travel to Washington DC, the Bahamas and just about everywhere in between. The […]
The 8th Annual Alabama Music Awards Lifetime Achievement winner, Roscoe Robinson was born May 22, 1928 and currently resides in Birmingham, AL. His career spans several decades and has brought him acclaim in both gospel and R&B genres. Roscoe Robinson is one of the last of the great long serving ‘shout singers’. Robinson combines a […]
Country Boy Eddy – known as Gordon Edward Burns to locals – started his road to entertainment at the age of 13 when he would go door to door selling garden seeds to local farmers. The money he made went towards something that would become synonymous with him throughout his career – a fiddle. After […]
LeNard Brown is an internationally known producer, writer, arranger and entrepreneur. He is one of the original members of the famous American soul & R & B vocal group called The Controllers originally part of an eight-member gospel group, the group became four in number and was made up of: LeNard Brown, Ricky Lewis, Larry […]
Born in Ft. Payne, Alabama, Jeff Cook has been playing lead guitar and keyboard since the age of thirteen. Securing a broadcast license three days after his fourteenth birthday, Jeff went to work as Host and DJ of The Jeff Cook Experience at a local radio station. The “broadcast bug” got into Jeff’s blood and […]
Founder and President, Mattie C. Stewart Foundation; Founder, o2ideas Shelley Stewart of Birmingham, Alabama overcame impoverished beginnings and family tragedies as a child to eventually become one of Birmingham’s best-known radio personalities and one of America’s most prominent African American businessmen and philanthropists. His broadcasting career began in 1949 as a local radio personality. The […]
The Alabama Music Awards are proud to announce their 2018 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Growing up in Guin, AL, his lifelong love affair with music is accredited to his Mother, Judith (an accomplished music teacher). His musical influence has paved a stamp on Alabama music and the Arts for over 4 decades. During […]
Henry “Gip” Gipson is a lot of things to different people. To some he is a true old school Bluesman, to some he is a grave digger and cemetary owner, to others he is a spiritual advisor , to many he is the owner and host of perhaps the last real Juke Joint in America […]
Bill Lawson, known to his huge radio audience as, “Dollar Bill”, is one-half of the top-rated morning team of “The Dollar Bill & Madison Show”, heard on Birmingham’s 102.5 THE BULL. Dollar Bill Lawson grew up in the Birmingham area, went to public schools there, and due to his self-described “maximum attention to teenage boy […]
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