Tones And I ins song of the year for Cloudy Day – the fifth Aria of her career – at the first in-person ceremony since 2019
Baker Boy has dominated the 2022 Arias, taking home a total of three awards for his album Gela on Thursday night – including the top gong for album of the year, as well as best solo artist and best hip-hop release.
Gela – his 2021 record which features contributions from the late Uncle Jack Charles – continues Baker’s signature fusion of feelgood flexes and sweeping polemics, drawing from both his upbringing in Arnhem Land as well as his move to Victoria, where he now resides. The album also won technical Arias for best cover art and sound mixing.
Like last year’s big winner, Genesis Owusu, Baker has been on the Australian music scene for just five years, thoughSince breaking out in 2017 as the winner of a competition for emerging artists hosted by Triple J Unearthed and the National Indigenous Music Awards ,He picked up artist of the year and album of the year at the most recent Nimas in August – and in 2021, he was awarded an OAM for his service to the performing arts.
This year saw the Arias back to an in-person format after two scuppered ceremonies where most speeches and performances were prerecorded – in distinctly subdued fashion.Held at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion and broadcast on both YouTube and television, the ceremony featured a grand return to red carpet fashion – and catering that, to some attendees’ bemusement, included a prominent fast-food chicken establishment.
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