The Global Indian Music Academy Awards (also known as the GiMA Awards) 2015 were held on Tuesday, 24 February, in Mumbai. These awards are presented annually by Global Indian Music Academy to honour and recognise Indian music in both film and non film category.
The event was as expected a star stuuded affair with celebrities including Shahid kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Shaan, AR Rahman, Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Bhushan Kumar, Armaan Malik, Manish Paul, Aditi Rao Hydari, drummer Shivamani, Neha Kakkar, Ankit Tiwari, Mihir Joshi, Arjan Bajwa, Arijit Singh, Hard Kaur, Urvashi Rautela, Raghu Dixit and others.
The man with the magical voice Atif Aslam performed unplugged at the Gionee India GiMA Awards 2015.
And the Winners of Gionee India GIMA Awards 2015 are :-
Best Celebrity Singer of the Year — Shraddha Kapoor for “Teri Galiyaan” (“Ek Villain”)
93.5 Red FM Bajaate Raho Award — Ankit Tiwari for “Galliyan”, “Ek Villain”
Best Music Debut (Non Film) Award — Armaan Malik
Best Background Score — Vishal Bhardwaj for “Haider”
Best Indie Song — PENT4GRAM for “Don’t have to lie”
Best Lyricist — Gulzar Sahab for “Bismil”, “Haider”
Best Electronica Track — Midival Punditz – Kutle Khan
Best Devotional Album — Shankar Mahadevan for “My Devotional Favourites”
Best Engineer – Film Album — Erric Pillai for “Ek Villian”
Best Music Arranger & Programmer — Amit Trivedi, Sourav Roy for “Queen”
Best Music Debut- Film — Armaan Malik, Sultana, Jyoti Nooran.
Best Hindustani Classical Album – Instrumental — Niladri Kumar for “Sur Yajna”
Best Pop Album — Papon Angaraag
Best Rock Album — Mihir Joshi Band for “Mumbai Blues”
Best Film Album — Pritam for “Yaariyan”.
Best Fusion Album — AR Rahman, Coke Studio at MTV Season 3
Best Playback Singer Male — Arijit Singh for “Muskurane” from the film “Citylights”
Best Playback Singer Female — Kanika Kapoor for “Baby Doll” from the film “Ragini MMS 2”
Most Streamed Song of the year — “Sunny Sunny”, “Yaariyan”
Global Musician Honour — Zakir Hussain
Best Ghazal Album — Hariharan & @ZakirTabla — “Hazir 2”
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