Mark Knight Wins 2024 EDMA Icon Award

Renowned DJ and home music producer Mark Knight has received the coveted Icon Award on the 2024 Electronic Dance Music Awards.

It’s a well-deserved win for Knight, a tried-and-true trailblazer whose report label, Toolroom, has deeply influenced the dance music trade for 20 years. The imprint, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary final 12 months, has been a launching pad for numerous artists since its 2003 inception.

Thanks to Knight’s cerebral strategy to manufacturing, the terra firma beneath his music’s toes has all the time been permeated with soul. In addition to his bottomless abyss of generational home anthems, Knight’s remix work has additionally been pivotal, reinventing classics like Avicii’s “My Feelings For You” and giving them new life for a contemporary viewers.

“My entire career in music has been driven by my love of music,” Knight tells EDM.com. “That’s why I got into it, and why I’m still doing it today. For me it was never about awards, but the fact that people have recognized my passion and contribution to music is incredibly overwhelming and I’d like to say a huge thank you to the EDMAs and to each and every person who has supported me throughout my career.”

Mark Knight, the winner of the 2024 EDMA Icon Award.

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The EDMAs are prevalently thought-about right now’s preeminent award present for its namesake style. Driven by its fan-based voting system, the MTV-style ceremony dishes out distinctive trophies as mementos, which resemble DJ decks and have a useful jog-wheel.

Last 12 months’s celebration in Miami noticed wins by Martin Garrix, Zedd, NERVO and trance legend Armin van Buuren, amongst many different distinguished digital music artists.

“These accolades are a huge motivation for me because they mean that the fans genuinely care,” van Buuren stated on the time. “They see you, hear you and enjoy your music, which is the very reason why I do this.”

The 2024 EDMA ceremony is scheduled for Friday, March twenty second at Miami’s Eden Roc Hotel. Numerous the nation’s main radio stations will broadcast the occasion each on-air and digitally.

You can discover the complete record of 2024 EDMA nominations right here.