Hip-hop pioneers recognised for lifetime contributions by Welsh Music Prize

Music pioneers, DJ Jaffa & MC Eric Welsh hip-hop pioneers DJ Jaffa and Eric Martin will receive the Welsh Music Inspiration award for their career-long contributions to the music scene in Wales at next month’s Welsh Music Prize. The awards ceremony, presented by BBC Radio 1 presenter Siân Eleri, takes place at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 8 October kicking off Llais Festival as part of Cardiff Music City Festival.  Shortlisted artists Aleighcia Scott, Gruff Rhys, HMS Morris and Lemfreck are among the live performers ahead of the award of the £10,000 prize for the best album made in Wales or by Welsh people around the world this past year. The prize is supported by Creative Wales, Cardiff Council, PRS for Music, PPL and Help Musicians and forms part of the Cardiff Music City Festival. Pioneers Eric Martin (also known as MC Eric and Me One) is a Welsh-born Jamaican vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and music producer, who rose to prominence for his work for the Belgian-based recording act Technotronic in the late 1980s and early 1990s, co-writing their classic “Pump Up The Jam” multi-platinum album which sold over 14m copies worldwide in its first year. MC Eric DJ...