Savage has won an Australian music award for a dance reworking of his hit song Swing.
Savage has won an Australian music award for a dance reworking of his hit song Swing.
Kiwi hip-hop artist Savage has won a prestigious Australian songwriting award.
The South Auckland rapper was honoured alongside Joel Fletcher for a dance remix of Savage's hit Swing at the APRA songwriting awards in Australia overnight.
He and Fletcher won won the Dance Work of the Year award for thesong, which has had more than two million views on YouTube.
The winner of the night's big award, the Songwriter of the Year APRA, was Sia.
It was the third year in a row that the singer-songwriter has won this particular award - the only artist to achieve such a feat.
Sia also won the APRA Song of the Year for her hit Chandelier, co-written by Jesse Shatkin, beating Sheppard (Geronimo), Dan Sultan (Kimberley Calling), The Veronicas and DNA (You Ruined Me) and Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning (Bittersweet).
Apra Music Award winners:
Song of the Year: Chandelier - Sia Songwriter of the Year: Sia Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year: 5 Seconds of Summer Outstanding Services to Australian Music: Fifa Riccobono Most Played Australian Work: Geronimo - Sheppard Blues & Roots Work of the Year: Heart Beats Slow - Angus & Julia Stone Country Work of the Year: Give Her the World Dance Work of the Year: Swing (Joel Fletcher Remix) - Joel Fletcher feat. Savage Pop Work of the Year: Geronimo - Sheppard Rock Work of the Year: Love You Deserve - Stonefield Urban Work of the Year: Tightrope - Illy feat. Scarlett Stevens Most Played Australian Work Overseas: Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra International Work of the Year: Happy - Pharrell Williams
