After the second round of voting, the Czech Academy of Music is decided on this year’s nominees at the 2023 Anděl Coca-Cola Awards. The names of the new holders of angel sage statues will be announced at a ceremony on March 30 at Prague’s O2 universu and live on Czech Television and YouTube. The evening, for which a limited number of tickets for the public are on sale, will be performed by Honza Dědek and Ivana “Fancy” Kulhánková.Sixteen angel statuettes will be awarded in total this year. The winner of the Hall of Fame award has already been decided, with 15 more to be decided by members of the Czech Academy of Music in the final round of voting, in which they select as traditionally always from three names. This year, there are two names among the nominees three times. One of them is rapper Viktor Sheen, who can become the best Interpreter for his solo album Planet of the Apes. In the joint project category, academics were intrigued by the Roadtrip album, which V. Sheen filmed in collaboration with Calin. And with the single Sapphire coming out of it, they both stand a chance in Song of the Year.The rock band November 2nd, which returned to the scene with an eponymous album last year after 12 years, also has three nominations. This scored well with academics in the Album, Group and Rock categories. In the royal album category, November 2nd “meets” with David Koller’s Jezus Kristus Neexistus? by J.A.R. and LP XXIII. Meanwhile, J.A.R. and D. Koller each have two nominations, as do Anna K., Calin and Sofian Medjmedj with Ben Cristovao. “Overall, the nominations this year are quite varied and straddling the genre. Among other things, they show that Czech music not only generatively transforms,” commented the results of the second round of voting, chair of the board of the Czech Academy of Music, Honza Vedral. A total of 432 academics voted in the 2nd round of voting for the 2023 Angel Coca-Cola Awards.This year, too, the public will have the opportunity to participate in the voting at the Angel Awards, thanks to the title partner of the Angel Awards, Coca-Cola. As in recent years, it has announced a Fan Award – a multi-genre popularity prize in which the public, of all the nominees, can vote for their favorite, starting today. The one that receives the most votes will receive, in addition to a financial support of 100,000 kroner, a supply of beverages from the Coca-Cola portfolio for the whole year to the testing facility free of charge. This year-round drinking regime also awaits the video clip category winner. “For Coca-Cola, the promotion of Czech musical talent is one of the important themes. We are pleased that we can also bring the public into the voting with The Fans’ Prize and, in this special category, connect exceptional performers independently of different genres. We are curious to see who will ultimately receive our support this year,” says Veronika Němcová, director of communications and external relations at Coca-Cola ČR.”We are very pleased that our partners are staying with us for the long term. Thanks to them, we can still move the Angel Awards forward, be more creative and ambitious in ideas. Another of these partners is Europe 2, which together with Czech Television is the main media partner of The Angel Awards. In addition, Europe 2 is patron of the Discovery category and supports the winner with a media campaign worth half a million crowns each year. We are convinced that such collaborations are really meaningful even for the artists themselves. In this respect, we cannot ignore intergram or OSA, who have been with us and the musicians for a number of years,” adds Hájková.This year the organizers of the 33rd Angel Coca-Cola 2023 Awards came with good news for all music fans. As recently as last year, the handover ceremony was intended only for invited artists due to the capacity of the space, but this year organisers were able to release a limited number of tickets for public sale. These are available from today in Ticketmaster and Ticketportal sales networks.Since 1991, the Academy of Music has been awarding and awarding and decrying every year. Since 1995, they have been implemented under the auspices of CºNS IFPI and since 1997 they have been symbolised by a statue of Ande The titular partner of the 33rd annual Cen Andeºl is Coca-Cola, the media partners of Czech Television and Europe 2. Other partners of the year are Intergram and OSA. Since 2017, LUFF PRODUCTION has been the company’s guardian.   JK