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Lyricist Award

Published on 23 July 2020

Authored by Anonymous

For outstanding lyrics in an original track from a Youth Music project.

You're about to enter the 2021 Youth Music Awards! If you have any trouble with any part of this form, please drop us an email: comms@youthmusic.org.uk

The Awards are free to enter, and open to anyone who has taken part in a project funded by Youth Music since January 2015. You can nominate yourself, a friend, a family member or someone you've worked with on a project.

Please note that if your nomination is shortlisted, we may use information you provide about why this nominee deserves to win in publicity for the Youth Music Awards (e.g. on our website, social media, Awards brochure).

Your details

Your name (required)

Your age

Under 16

16-18

19-25

Over 25

Nominee details

Are you nominating yourself or someone else?

Myself

Someone else

Please describe your connection to the person you're nominating (e.g. project leader, parent)

Nominee name

Nominee age

Under 16

16-18

19-25

Over 25

Project details

Organisation name (required)

Project name

If you know the name of the project(s) you or the act you're nominating has taken part in with the above organisation, please list them here:

Your entry

Artist/band name (required)

Link to track (required)

Please share ONE YouTube or Soundcloud link to the track you'd like to nominate for this category. Please make sure that the track is either public or unlisted but not private, and that you have enabled permission to embed it on other sites (this is so we can share the entry with the judging panel).

Please share the full lyrics of the track (required)

Please tell us about the process of writing the lyrics - for example what inspired them, techniques used (up to 200 words) (required)

Please tell us about yourself/the person you're nominating, and your/their background in music (up to 200 words): (required)

Artist/band profile image (required)

One file only.
50 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, png, svg.

Photo credit (if applicable)

Artist/band profiles

If you'd like to share any additional links to the music and social media profiles of the act you're nominating, you can do this below. This information won't be used to judge the entry, but it will help us share the music with a wider audience!

Website

YouTube

Soundcloud

Instagram

Availability

We'd like to make short films about all shortlisted nominees. Please let us know if there are any dates between January-March 2021 when you know you will NOT be available.

A couple of final things...

If you were to win a Youth Music Award, what walk-on music would you choose?

I've read the terms and conditions (required)

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two people posing with an award in front of a white wall with logos on it — Award winner Taz with Chris Barker from BandLab. Photo by Blouhaus Photography.

2019 shortlist

Learn more about the winner and nominees for the 2019 Lyricist Award sponsored by BandLab.

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