Jermaine Dupri To Be Honored During Soul Train Music Awards, ASCAP Awards

March 9th, 2007 | By Administrator

Grammy Award winning songwriter and producer Jermaine Dupri will be receiving top honors this year at the 21st Annual Soul Train Music Awards and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Awards.

Dupri will be recognized with the Quincy Jones Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Soul Train Awards, which will be held Mar. 10 in Pasadena, CA.

ASCAP will honor JD by awarding him with his sixth achievement as Songwriter of the Year during the 24th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards, which takes place April 18 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

Dupri will share his Pop Songwriter of the Year honors with his prot?g? singer/songwriter, Johnta Austin.

Dupri, who was recently named head of Island Def Jam’s new Urban department, won Songwriter of the Year at the ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards in 2005 and 2006.

In related news, ASCAP’s Rhythm & Soul Team will present an executive roundtable titled “State of the Industry – Uncut, taking place Mar. 20 from 7-9 pm at Clark-Atlanta University’s Robert Woodruff Library Exhibition Hall.

The event will be moderated by Tremayne “Tre” Anchrum (Director, Creative Affairs, ASCAP) and will feature such music industry executives like Shakir Stewart (Sr. VP A&R, Island Def Jam Music Group) Chaka Zulu (Co-CEO of Disturbing Tha Peace Records), Chris Hicks (Sr. VP A&R Urban, Atlantic Records and Sr. VP
A&R/Head of Urban Music, Warner Chappell) and others discussing the state of the music industry.

The event is free to the public.