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Claudius England

Claudius England is a songwriter, producer and music arranger with a great desire to see youth impacted through positive and uplifting music. 2012 was a good year so far for this proud Montegonian. In the first five days, he received confirmation of his nomination in two categories for the Atlanta Gospel Music Awards scheduled for September of this year - "Best New Artiste" and "Most Uplifting Song - ("Done For Me"). In that same week, Claudius was awarded Jamaica's leading radio station - Love 101's "Engage Alien Award" naming him the "One To Watch For 2012". A few weeks later, he was nominated for Chicago's International Reggae & World Music Awards (IRAWMA) in the category of Best Gospel Oriented Song.

Claudius has enjoyed great reviews and accolades in the short time that he burst on the scene with his refreshingly passionate sound and lyrics which his audience can fully relate to. He has participated in many of Jamaica's renown gospel and mainstream events and received rave media reviews for his performance at the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in 2010. The 2011 Olic Project - an initiative created to promote love and unity surrounding the issue of HIV/AIDS, through culturally relevant expressions of Christian worship used his "HIV" single as their official theme song and in Chicago this year - in addition to his IRAWMA nomination, Claudius also presented the Best Female DJ Award to Queen Ifrika at that event as well as sharing the stage with her, Beres Hammond, Third World, Tony Rebel, Nkulee Dubee, I- Octane, Tarrus Riley and many others. He also had the distinct privilege of performing at the popular Red Kiva alongside some of Chicago's finest jazz, R&B and world music artistes before heading to Florida where his performance at the Total Praise Jamaica 50 event led to an interview on RHRTV1.

Claudius also spearheads "Friday Nites Plugged', a national series where gospel artistes lend their time intimately "reasoning' on various topics with youth in churches, schools and communities. There is also a concert element of the series which provides a wholesome and entertaining activity. Season One of Friday Nites Plugged was supported by over 25 of Jamaica's leading gospel artistes including Kevin Downswell, Prodigal Son, DJ Nicholas, Jermaine Edwards, Kevin Smith, Rondel Positive and many others and was partnered with The Bureau of Women's Affairs in support of their "Unite to End Violence Against Women" campaign.

2012 is just the beginning for this music minister who has his sights set on sharing the gospel all over the world. He also believes that there are many more who are gifted to do the same and has a heartfelt desire to help them in any way he can.