Mayden Hollywood’s pop-rock song “Hollywood” has been nominated in the Best Song category of the 2015 Best of British Unsigned Music Awards (UMA). The awards, launched in 2012, are presented by Best of British Unsigned which is the United Kingdom’s (UK) leading website for “unsigned music” supplying a weekly radio show for 70 FM stations in 15 countries. Winners will be selected by an online fan vote beginning October 26. This year’s awards are sponsored by Richer Unsigned, another platform supporting upcoming musicians.
Mayden Hollywood is a British born American producer, singer and songwriter. He learned the basics of the music business working with Balance Productions in New York City where he sometimes auditioned up to 300 performers a day looking for great new talent. Later he was associated with Starstruck Productions and as a fan of underground hip-hop worked with Kurupt DJ Mohamed, Young Zee and Pace Won. Mayden currently lives in Los Angeles in the neighborhood of his nominated .
He said, “Today music is considered to be a culturally enriching art form and I am very proud to be a part of it. There has been no better time to be a recording artist than now”. His music delivers an appealing commercial sound, lyrical melodic storytelling which he calls Audio Art.
The song “Hollywood” contrasts the town’s celebrated image with the roller coaster good and bad times of many of the people who live there. For production he called upon the talents of Skip Saylor and Ian Blanch, session musicians Thomas Harris and Mike Reason and backup vocals by Jolina Star. A sample of the lyrics: “The sun always shines over Hollywood, you can be what you want today ‘cause it doesn’t matter, this is Hollywood and we’re all actors in our own screen play”.
Matt Graveling, the founder of BoB Unsigned, feels the UK produces the best musicians in the world and he is fortunate to be able to feature them on his radio shows. Julian Richer, this year’s awards sponsor and founder of Richer Sound, the UK’s largest hi-fi retailer, said it is important to help developing talent get the exposure and recognition it deserves and he values being able to give something back. Both Best of Br song Matt Graveling, the founder of BoB Unsigned, feels the UK produces the best musicians in the world and he is fortunate to be able to feature them on his radio shows. Julian Richer, this year’s awards sponsor and founder of Richer Sound, the UK’s largest hi-fi retailer, said it is important to help developing talent get the exposure and recognition it deserves and he values being able to give something back. Both Best of British Unsigned and Richer Unsigned are non-profit organizations.
Matt announced that this year the event will introduce an additional award to follow the fan vote, the Critics’ Choice. Judges will be Huey Morgan, Fun Lovin’ Criminals front man and presenter for BBC 6, Max Helyer who is guitarist for the rock band You Me at Six and staff of the music magazine “Q”.
In addition to Best Song, awards will be given for Best Band and Best Female and Male Vocalist. Voting for BofB Unsigned nominees takes place on www.bobunsigned.com.
For information on Mayden Hollywood, visit www.maydenhollywood.com. To find out more about Best of British radio and this year’s sponsor, go to www.bobunsigned.com and www.richerunsigned.com.
