Kanya King, who founded Mobo Awards to champion black music, dies at 57

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Mobo Awards founder Kanya King, who worked tirelessly to champion black musicians' contribution to British culture, has died at the age of 57. She was best known as the tenacious founder of the Music of Black Origin awards, which celebrated their 30th anniversary earlier this year in Manchester. Speaking at the ceremony, she told the BBC she had funded the first event out of her own pocket, "against my mother's judgment... but it paid off". King died on Wednesday after "a courageous and

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