Welsh Music Prize Inspiration Award Eric Martin & DJ Jaffa + Triskel Prize Winners Revealed, Gruff Rhys To Play Ceremony – God Is In The TV

Welsh hip-hop pioneers Eric Martin (pictured) and DJ Jaffa 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. 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. DJ Jaffa also known as Jason Farrell is a Cardiff-based...