Akum announces the winners in the field of popular music for the year 2021/22, this will be the first year in which the winners will receive an NFT asset in addition to the selling statuette.
Awards for life’s achievements will be awarded this year to Yehudit Ravitz and Zeev Nechama. Among the recipients of the awards: Keren Pels, Tuna, Narkis, Nono, Yanon Yahal, Ron Biton, Yishai Rivo, Yehuda Ader and Meir Reuvani (the Reuvani brothers) The prize for the most played foreign song will be awarded to Ed Sheeran.
The NFT awards will be produced by Tektona, which has developed AI technology that processes sentences and turns them into a digital work of art, for each winner in their own unique way, or for the award they won. This is a first step in a natural collaboration between technology and art.
The awarding ceremony of the Akum Awards will take place on Wednesday 7.9.22, at the “Cinema” hall in Cinema City, Gillot, under the direction of Yair Nitsani.