Former Homeless Man Has Risen to Launch Independent Music Awards Show Honoring Rev. Timothy Wright & Margaret Allison

In the summer of 1996 Delroy Souden, a Jamaican immigrant, called Military Park in Newark, NJ his home for a week or so. Now, a decade later, Souden is no longer homeless and he's launching the first ever En Sound Independent Music Awards across the street from that same park at the Robert Treat Hotel this August.

(PRWEB) April 22, 2006 -- In the summer of 1996 Delroy Souden, a Jamaican immigrant, called Military Park in Newark, NJ his home for a week or so. Now, a decade later, Souden is no longer homeless and he's launching the first ever En Sound Independent Music Awards across the street from that same park at the Robert Treat Hotel this August.

Souden formed www.ensoundentertainment.com in 1999 and some years later started his online radio network to give independent gospel recording artists a platform for their music to be heard. The network is now heard in over sixty-five countries around the globe.

In another step to recognize the sacrifices and great achievements of independent artists, Souden will now honor those artists with the first annual En Sound Music Awards on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at the Robert Treat Hotel, in Newark, New Jersey . Rev. Timothy Wright and Margaret Allison will both receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Wright is known as the godfather of gospel choir music and has recorded hits such as "Who's on the Lord's Side" and "What A Friend We Have in Jesus." In her sixty-year career with the Angelic Gospel Singers, founder Margaret Allison has tweaked the quartet sound with a Philadelphia twist and enjoyed hits such as "Touch Me, Lord Jesus" and "Out of the Depths."

Awards will be handed out in fourteen categories and confirmed performers include Bryan Wilson ("Still My Father" and "His Eye is on the Sparrow"), Earnest Pugh ("All That I Need") and Patrick Lundy & the Ministers of Music ("In the Fellowship") among others. The masters of ceremonies will be comedians Rod Z and Cornelius Simms. Souden, is an independent artist himself, and will release his third cd "My Life" this fall.

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