SWAGATA "BAN" BANERJEE, PH.D. AWARDS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, MAJOR ACTIVITIES BEYOND ACADEMIA (NOT ON CV) SINCE JOINING KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY [REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER]
October 2019
October 2019 Hired (on behalf of Ban Brothers) social media marketing expert Rick Barker, former manager of superstar Taylor Swift, to help learn and navigate music career (October 6, 2019).
CLOUZINE International Music Award
by CLOUZINE Magazine's International Music Awards for Best Ambient Music Video ("Memories") in Fall 2019. * https://clouzineblog.jimdofree.com/2019/10/31/list-of-winners-clouzine-international-music-awards-fall-2019/
https://clouzineblog.jimdofree.com/2019/10/31/list-of-winners-clouzine-international-music- awards-fall-2019/
Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEYpEcxbkw April 2019 The 2018 AKADEMIA Artist of the Year Award from Los Angeles, California (April 20, 2019).
April 2019
The 2018 AKADEMIA Artist of the Year Award from Los Angeles, California (April 20, 2019).* Presentation and Ban Brothers' Featured Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqm3_EpGW8I
The 2019 AKADEMIA Executive Award from Los Angeles, California (Saturday, April 20, 2019).
Presentation and Acceptance Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLHAJOr2cE
KSU Campus News published an article about these on May 20, 2019 (see link right below).
https://kysu.edu/2019/05/20/kentucky-state-university-business-professor-received-high- honors-on-the-global-music-stage/ March 2019 CLOUZINE Contemporary Music Magazine featured a story on Ban Brothers (with bio and interview) in their 13th issue, pages 6-9 (published 3/20/2019).
March 2019
CLOUZINE Contemporary Music Magazine featured a story on Ban Brothers (with bio and interview) in their 13^{th} issue, pages 6-9 (published 3/20/2019). * Feature: https://online.flowpaper.com/78c40738/Clouzine13/ [See a PDF copy titled “BanBrothers_Interview_in_ClouzineMagazine_Issue13_2019” in the “Evidence of other continuing growth activities” section of the dossier.]
October 2018
Best Music Video Award at the 21st Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (CICFF) for “Chupi Chupi” (Music Video from the 2016 album "All About Love: Music from the Heart"^{2}). * http://www.hlc-cicff.com/blog/ [CICFF is an ISO 9001:2015 Certified Film Festival, an official member of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, and an IMDb Award Listing Qualifier]
² This album went #1 on One World Music Radio (www.oneworldmusic.co.uk) Top 100 in May 2017 with a record-breaking number of chart points, stayed #1 through June 2017, and dropped to #2 in July 2017 and stayed in that position through September 2017. It also won the One World Music Radio (United Kingdom) Award for “Best World/Global Fusion Music Album of 2016” (June 4, 2017). It also charted in the Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Top 40 Album Chart.