Kid Harpoon gets triple win at MPG Awards

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The UK’s Music Producers Guild presented its annual awards last week, with Kid Harpoon scoring a triple win. As well as being declared Producer Of The Year and Writer-Producer Of The Year, he shared the Album Of The Year prize with Oli Jacobs and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent for the Harry Styles album ‘Harry’s House’.Commenting on the winners, MPG Executive Director Eve Horne said: “It’s fantastic to see so many deserved winners!

Every year we are blown away with the sheer talent that each of the nominees and winners display. It’s great to see such diversity again this year too.

Testament that the MPG and the industry as a whole is going in the right direction”.In addition to the awards celebrating music produced in the last year, the MPG also presented an Inspiration Award to Ric Flow, an Icon Award to Bob Clearmountain, and an Outstanding Contribution To UK Music prize to Fraser T Smith.The latter used the occasion to formally launch his Future Producer Academy, which aims to boost the careers of emerging producers from under-represented backgrounds, with support from the MPG and collecting society PPL.Here is the full list of winners…Producer Of The Year: Kid Harpoon Writer-Producer Of The Year: Kid Harpoon Breakthrough Producer Of The Year: Adam ‘Cecil’ Bartlett Vocal Producer Of The Year: Ramera Abraham Self-Producing Artist: Hannah Peel Rising Star: Francine Perry Unsung Hero: Carla HardingRecording Engineer Of The Year: Oli Jacobs Mix Engineer Of The Year: Craig Silvey Mastering Engineer Of The Year: Cicely Balston Studio Of The Year: RAK StudiosAlbum Of The Year: Kid Harpoon, Oli Jacobs and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent for ‘Harry’s House’ by Harry Styles Original Score Recording Of The Year: Hannah Peel, Michael Keeney and James.