{"id":2435379,"date":"2026-05-28T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2435379"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:59:56","slug":"aotearoa-music-awards-2026-marlon-williams-makes-history-lynda-topps-powerful-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/aotearoa-music-awards-2026-marlon-williams-makes-history-lynda-topps-powerful-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Aotearoa Music Awards 2026: Marlon Williams makes history, Lynda Topp&#8217;s powerful speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"liveblog-iframe\" width=\"100%\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz.liveblog.pro\/lb-rnz\/blogs\/6a14e055827257ff8f02d6eb\/index.html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Celebrities, artists and music creatives have arrived to celebrate the best of Aotearoa music at The Civic in T\u0101maki Makaurau.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Aotearoa Music Awards will be presented by RNZ&#8217;s <i>Music 101<\/i> host Kara Rickard and comedian Tom Sainsbury.<\/p>\n<p>Folk singer Marlon Williams leads with seven nominations alongside hip-hop artist Tom Scott (whose album producer, cover artist and engineer are also nominated), for album of the year, single of the year and best solo artist. Lorde follows close behind with four nominations for her much-anticipated album, <i>Virgin<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, <b>a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rnz.co.nz \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities, artists and music creatives have arrived to celebrate the best of Aotearoa music at The Civic in T\u0101maki Makaurau. This year&#8217;s Aotearoa Music Awards will be presented by RNZ&#8217;s Music 101 host Kara Rickard and comedian Tom Sainsbury. Folk singer Marlon Williams leads with seven nominations alongside hip-hop artist Tom Scott (whose album producer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[21941,371579,21738,23522,371578,371576,371577],"class_list":["post-2435379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Aotearoa-Music-Awards-2026-Marlon-Williams-makes-history-Lynda-Topps.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435381,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435379\/revisions\/2435381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}