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7th Citycell-Channel i Music Awards to be held

A Correspondent
Like previous years, this year too Citycell-Channel i Music Awards will honour artistes and musicians of the country. With a view to promote local music and artistes, the journey of Citycell-Channel i Music Awards started in 2004.
A press conference was held in this regard yesterday at the Tejgaon office of Channel i. Mehbub Chowdhury, chief executive officer of Citycell; Faridur Reza Sagar, managing director, Impress Telefilms Limited; Taslim Ahmed, head of marketing communications of Citycell and Shahidul Alam Sachchu, programme director of 7th Citycell-Channel i Music Awards gave a detailed overview of the categories and rules of this year's contest.
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Boyati, Faridur Reza Sagar sought help from others in this regard.
A number of noted artistes, including Sudhin Das; Sohrab Hossain; Mustafa Zaman Abbasi; Khalid Hossain; Ustad Niaz Mohammad Chowdhury; Rezwana Chowdhury Bonnya; Farida Parveen; Kiran Chandra Roy; Chandana Majumdar and music director Shujeyo Shyam were present at the press confer-
This year, the awards will be conferred in 16 categories. The categories are: Classical Music; Rabindra Sangeet; Nazrul Sangeet; Folk Songs; Adhunik Songs; Motion Picture Soundtrack; Band Music; Underground Band; Songwriting; New Artiste (male/female); Sound Engineering; Cover Design; Music Direction; Music Video and Lifetime Achievement Award.
The selection process will be divided into three stages. The process will start
through submission of entries — audiocassettes, CDs and VCDs from individuals and production houses — released in 2010.
In addition, there will be 15 awards based on popular choice or viewers' votes through SMS.
Entries for the 7th Citycell-Channel i Music Awards can be submitted to Channel i office, 40, Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Tejgaon, Dhaka from July 12 to August 12,2011. Apart from this, entries can be submitted to the six divisional (Rangpur, Barisal, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet) main customer care centres of Citycell.
The gala programme of the 7th Citycell-Channel i Music Awards will be held around the end of this year.
Anando Alo, Radio Today and bdnews24.com are the media partners of the 7th Citycell-Channel i Music Awards.