Dong Nhi won the 'Best Southeast Asian Artist' award at EMA 2016
The female singer won the title for receiving the highest number of votes from the audience, surpassing competitors from Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia...
Information about the Southeast Asian representative was announced close to the MTV EMA 2016 awards ceremony in the Netherlands, taking place in the early morning of November 7.To win this award, Dong Nhi surpassed the following artists: Gentle Bones (Singapore), Raisa (Indonesia), Sarah Geronimo (Philippines), Thaitanium (Thailand), Yuna and Bunkface (Malaysia).
Previously, Dong Nhiis one of three artists from Asia invited by the organizers to attend the award ceremony inNetherlands.
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| Dong Nhi in the Netherlands. |
Dong Nhi shared: "This is such great news. This award is not only my dream but also the dream of the crew, the fans in particular and Vietnamese music lovers in general. I really hope to be able to bring Vietnamese music to the world and learn many things from the world to bring back to the country."
This is the first time the Best Southeast Asian Act category has been recognized among the 18 official categories of the 2016 MTV EMA.At that time, My Tam (2013) and Son Tung M-TP (2015) won in the Southeast Asia region, but at that time MTV EMA did not have an award for this category. When entering the regional competition, they had to stop before countries with huge votes like China.
MTV Europe Music Awards byMTV Networks EuropeFirst held in 1994 to award outstanding music videos in Europe. After 20 times held in Europe, EMA spread to Asia and became an occasion to honor music products loved by audiences around the world.
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