Mirchi Music Awards: Honours Singers, Composers, Lyricists, Engineers

October 8, 2015 by BollywoodPresents Team

Mirchi Music Awards is one of the leading award functions that felicitates talents in the music department. And not only the performers & composers are awarded for their best efforts, even those from the technical department, such as sound engineers are felicitated.

Mirchi Music Awards are presented annually by Radio Mirchi (popular Hindi Music Radio station). Awards are given in various categories such as Best singers (Male, Female), Composers, Lyricists, Programmer & Arranger, Sound Engineer, and more.

The most recent Mirchi Awards ceremony was held at YashRaj studios which saw the presence of some big names from the industry. Almost all the top singers, composers, lyrics writers (both from yesteryear and from the current lot) were present at the function.

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