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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2007 | Juno Award Nominee in 2007 (Canadian equivalent for American Grammy Award) “For the best World Music Album of the Year with the album African Guitar Summit 2 – CBC Records / Universal Canada

2006 | CD Release of the Donne Roberts’ album “Rhythm Was Born” at Harborfront Centre Toronto - Canada

2006 | International Songwriting Competition 2006 The song "Malembo" from Donne Roberts’ album “Rhythm Was Born” has won Honorable Mention in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). ISC received almost 15,000 entries from 88 countries throughout the world

2005 | Juno Award Winner in 2005 (Canadian equivalent for American Grammy Award) “For the best World Music Album of the Year ” with the African Guitar Summit CD – CBC Records/Universal Canada

2005 | Canadian Urban Music Award Nominee in 2005 for the song “Sadebake”

2005 | Appearance with the at Live 8 in 2005 in Barrie (Canada). Shared the stage with Brian Adams, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Deep Purple, Motley Crue, RunDMC, etc…

1997-1998 | The first black male VJ on MTV Russia (hosted one-hour show)

1998 | Organized a back vocal team and performed with the Swedish band “Ace of Bace”

1996 | Donne has organized and produced the first major African festival in Moscow Russia. “Mama Africa”

iTune store’s sensation | since November 2006 to present. Donne’s song Wenge Yongo has been the most downloaded song from the album African Guitar Summit 2,

CD Release | of the album African Guitar Summit 2 at Lula Lounge Toronto Canada

CD Release | of the album African Guitar Summit in Toronto at Lula Lounge

Won the International Pop Music Competition “Generation 95” with the band Molochnie Bratie