Our Patrons San Diego Indian American Society (SDIAS) and Swaradigm
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Contact
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Arun at their Facebook page
For our Malayalee friends.
For our Tamil friends- Sangeetha Rajesh.
For our Bengali friends- Our friend from West Bengal Sourajit Ghosh.
For our Malayalee friends- Our esteemed Judge- Pradip Sir
For Kannadiga friends- our friend Lakshmi Hoysal
Introduction:
The Smule India Awards are initiated in the year 2019 by Community members on Smule as a way to recognize each year one or two singer profiles of excellence singing on Smule app. The rules of selection for this recognition is defined in the following sections.
What this Award means:
This is a huge recognition because this award is designed in a way that the selection is heavily in the hands of entire Smule community, that is you. You decide and vote who get this recognition.
Physically it is a single award given as a prize money of One hundred and fifty US dollars (150.00 USD only). The award this year is in the name of San Diego Indian American Society and its founding father Prof. Murugappa Madhavan.
A second place and Third place Award:
The second place award is for 75 USD and a Third place of 50 USD will be given
The entire award money we achieved this year total of 285 USD. The major sponsors of this competition are San Diego Indian American Society, Swaradigm Voice training School and Raghu Rajagopal. Raghu is a music enthusiast who generously donated to this cause. Thank you from the heart for the whole team. Thanks to our constant support and Patron San Diego Indian American Society (SDIAS) and many other friends of the blog who chipped in whatever they can.
In addition the winner get featured artist status with an opportunity to be in our esteemed featured artist line on the Smule India Blog pages, and a community support for their career activities.
Invitation to Nomination:
This is the time of the year we are seeking your help in nominations from the entire India community.
Submission deadline : January 22nd 2021.
Eligibility criteria:
a) Previous year’s winners (two) are not eligible for this award. All Runner up nominees are still eligible for nominations this year as well. It is a free competition there is no fee to participate.
b) A nomination can not be self.
c) Anybody from Smule community can suggest any profile of a singer singing in any language or state or geographical location.
d) Only a single nomination is acceptable from a user (proof of a proper email is needed for the submitting person).
e) The user have to have an active Smule profile singing in any India languages.
f) The user must have been actively singing most part of last year on the App
g) They should display a serious interest in developing a professional singing; profiles with pass time interest in singing are eligible but quality of your invites and how you present yourself in the community is an important aspect in this recognition.
h) Age is not a restriction.
i) Singers with commercial interests expressed explicitly through their profile are not eligible, (like music schools etc.)
j) Hidden talents are what this award is all about.
k) This is only nomination stage where we are asking for as many as nominations possible, but a single user can only nominate one singer in a given year for consideration. Give your diligent thoughts so this year award goes to a deserving candidate
l) Smule users in the judging panel (see below) can not be nominated
Click the link below to submit a nomination for this Fellowship Award-
Remember no self nominations or nominations of Judges of the panel
https://forms.gle/8hZJ971oauQrPhmL7
Process of selection:
Award fellowship selection process
1st stage
Nominations from the India Community (that is you, until January 25th 2021)
2nd stage
The top 10 will be presented to the Smule community for an online Voting on 6th of February 2021. Voting will remains open until February 28th of 2021(Extended new deadline)
The final stage (March 15th of 2021)
Judges panel at that time has the power to add a weightage of 75% to vote for deciding the three top positions. Voting carry 30% of weightage.
The award fellowship is 150, 75, and 50 USD respectively. Any decisions made by the panel will be final
An expert panel from the current Smule Community that represents most of the states from India will finalize Ten top nominations from the submitted entries. These entries will be posted on the Smule India Blog site and on the Smule app for voting by the community for a month period till February 22nd 2021. Your votes carry 30% of weight, while 75% of weight in the final score will be given by an expert panel of judges decision. Any decisions made by the Panel of judges will be final.
Our Judges Panel
- Pradip Somasundaran (Kerala)
- T. N. Arunagiri (Tamil Nadu)
- Dr. Aparajita Lahiri (Ranchi, Jharkhand)
- Swapnil Gorey (Maharashtra)
- Ankita Sinha ( West Bengal)
- Sunandita Bhattacharya (West Bengal)
- Geetika Pant ( Uttrakhand)
- Shruthi Krishnamurthy (Karnataka)
- Yugal Shreshta ( Nepal) (not able to participate)
- Subhajit Chatterjee (West Bengal) (not able to participate)
- Sangeetha Rajesh (Tamil Nadu)
- Prasad McCoy (Kerala)
- Deepti Nair (Kerala) Sarogow
Fellowship Award Announcement: Will be on March 20th, 2021 through Smule India Blog site and Smule verified handles on the Smule App at a Live Jam Session (The program to be announced). The award money will be distributed not later than April 15th 2021.
