{"id":215347,"date":"2026-06-05T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/tributes-paid-to-mobo-awards-founder-and-cultural-pioneer-kanya-king-dead-at-57\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:49:09","slug":"tributes-paid-to-mobo-awards-founder-and-cultural-pioneer-kanya-king-dead-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/tributes-paid-to-mobo-awards-founder-and-cultural-pioneer-kanya-king-dead-at-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to MOBO Awards founder and cultural pioneer Kanya King, dead at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOBO Awards founder Kanya King championed Black musicians&#8217; contribution to British culture and funded the first Music Of Black Origin awards in 1996. Heartfelt tributes have been posted, remembering her as a &#8220;visionary&#8221; and &#8220;a pioneer&#8221; who &#8220;changed the face of culture and music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/06\/05\/tributes-paid-to-mobo-awards-founder-and-cultural-pioneer-kanya-king-dead-at-57\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOBO Awards founder Kanya King championed Black musicians&#8217; contribution to British culture and funded the first Music Of Black Origin awards in 1996. Heartfelt tributes have been posted, remembering her as a &#8220;visionary&#8221; and &#8220;a pioneer&#8221; who &#8220;changed the face of culture and music.\u201d Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":215348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}