ARTISTS AND MANAGERS CELEBRATED

Thursday night’s Artist and Manager Awards in London celebrated the likes of Becky Hill, Burna Boy manager Bose Ogulu, Martin Hall and Groundworks. Pictured here between pints are...

The Groundworks team, headed by Bills, Jeffrey Owusu-Dankwa and Niall Bentil, a surprise winner of the Team Achievement gong. The company reps Digga D, M Huncho and Potter Payper.

Artist of the Year Becky Hill with Merck Mercuriadis, Nile Rodgers, Hill's manager, Alex Martin, and tour manager Amanda Barker

Manager of the Year Bose Ogulu with her son and client, Burna Boy, and team and the Music Manager Forum's Annabella Coldrick, Paul Craig and Kwame Kwaten

Burna Boy and Bose Ogulu

Other winners included Martin Hall, manager of Grammy nominees Wet Leg, The Script and Manic Street Preachers, who was named Managers’ Manager. Breakthrough Artist went to Beabadoobee and Breakthrough Manager was Callum Reece at One House for his success with Eliza Rose, Sherelle, cktrl and Mwanjé.

James Sandom and Tyler Brown at Red Light Management were honored with the Writer/Producer Manager Award. Carl Cox was crowned Pioneer, Tim Burgess Artists’ Artist and Krept & Konan Entrepreneur. And the ABBA Voyage team earned the Innovation Award.

Photos: Paul Hampartsoumian