The awards started at a time when there was no form of recognition for reggae in the world.

I think the only time individual awards really impress upon you as a kid is when you get to share them with your teammates. What you share with your teammates is the big award, the conference championship. So if you get an individual award and the team gets nothing, you feel kind of like half-empty.

They all did really well. It's the first time any South swimmers have been on the podium to receive awards so that's very exciting for us.

THE 2005 WORLD MUSIC AWARDS

We haven't won any awards for our songwriting for a while so this means an awful lot to us.

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