The stag­ing of the 30th an­niver­sary of the In­ter­na­tion­al Reg­gae and World Mu­sic Awards (IRAW­MA) in Trinidad and To­ba­go on May 28 has not on­ly ig­nit­ed a fren­zy amongst lo­cal and re­gion­al mu­sic fans but has al­so cap­tured much at­ten­tion from in­ter­na­tion­al en­ter­tain­ers and en­ti­ties. Ghana­ian mu­sic star and NAACP Im­age Award Nom­i­nee Rocky Dawu­ni along with his man­age­ment have made it clear that they will be present at the 2011 IRAW­MA cer­e­mo­ny to wit­ness this unique gath­er­ing of glob­al mu­sic pro­fes­sion­als. Dawu­ni, who was re­cent­ly ap­point­ed by Ghana's Min­istry of Tourism as their Tourism Am­bas­sador is praised for his suc­cess in mu­sic both at home and abroad and his on­go­ing pos­i­tive pro­jec­tion of Ghana in his con­certs.

In his new role as Tourism Am­bas­sador Dawu­ni stat­ed "The arts, es­pe­cial­ly mu­sic can not on­ly bring tourists to Ghana, but cre­ate an ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the rich Ghana­ian cul­ture out­side of Ghana. I am pre­pared to do my ut­most to broad­ly por­tray Ghana and its rich her­itage through my mu­sic, con­certs, hu­man­i­tar­i­an work and ap­pear­ances world­wide." Dawu­ni's cred­its in­clude mu­si­cal col­lab­o­ra­tions with U2 front­man, Bono on Bob Mar­ley's War, No More Trou­ble and with Blues leg­end Keb Mo on Pe­ter Gabriel's Biko which were both fea­tured on the 2009 Bill­board Top 20 Al­bum Play­ing For Change-Songs Around the World.

His crit­i­cal­ly ac­claimed cur­rent al­bum-Hymns For the Rebel Soul-was nom­i­nat­ed for a pres­ti­gious NAACP Im­age Award for Out­stand­ing World Mu­sic Al­bum and most no­tably the Ghan­ian su­per­star is slat­ed to per­form along­side the leg­endary Ste­vie Won­der, with spe­cial guest Jaenelle Mon­ae, backed by Ricky Mi­nor, at the Hol­ly­wood Bowl in Los An­ge­les in Ju­ly. With all these in­ter­na­tion­al ac­com­plish­ments, it is on­ly fit­ting that at this year's event Dawu­ni is not on­ly nom­i­nat­ed for two IRAW­MAs in the Best Al­bum and Best African Artist cat­e­gories but will al­so per­form along­side Machel Mon­tano HD, Shag­gy, Denise "Saucy Wow" Bel­fon and the great Fred­die Mc­Gre­gor at the awards on May 28.