(Photo by Cassius Watson: Chino accepting his EME award)

(Kingston, Jamaica) — After a lengthy night at the EME awards on Thursday, sprinkled with ‘Hellelujahs’ (Denroy Morgan after receiving his award) and psuedo male strippers (Dancehall/Rapper, Unique from the USA), Chino and Spice were ranked among some of the top awardees for the night.

Reggae/Dancehall artiste Chino, received the award for ‘Breakthrough Artiste of the Year’ alongside JahVinci. The award is presented to the artiste whose work attracted local and international attention, and who is seen as poised as a leader for the next generation of Reggae/Dancehall stars.

This is an undeniable achievement for Chino, who released a plethora of hit songs last year ranging from, From Mawning, Pon Yuh Head, Call We Name, We Nuh Like Dem (Featuring Di Genius), Protected, and others, while balancing a three month European and US tour. Only a few weeks into the new year and Chino already has more than four major stingers released; among them are Buy You A Round alongside Sean Paul, Find It Hard featuring Dean Frasier and Phone Gyalis.

Chino whose correct name is Daniel McGregor says, “I have to say thanks to everyone who helped me to make my success possible. One person can’t do it, it takes a lot of belief in yourself and a great team, great fans and media persons and others in the industry who believe in you. So thanks to everyone and for the new year I’m staying focused and coming with a lot of hot new tracks and two albums: one for the US market and the other for Japan.”

Also from the Big Ship family, Stephen ‘Di Genius’ McGregor won the award for ‘Dancehall Producer of the Year’.

(Photo by Cassius Watson): Spice collecting her award from Dancehall/Rapper Unique

Dancehall’s top diva Spice, also received the award for ‘Female Dancehall Artiste of the Year’. Armed with a number of the island’s well known songs last year including Ramping Shop, Fluffy Vs. Slim (Featuring Pamputae), Chattie Back, Ten Long, Nagging Man, Bad Mind, Draw Mi Out and others, Spice says she is pleased with her reward after putting in the hard work last year.

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