JJ Stomp
Outstanding Director
After just 4 full length films under his belt, J.J. Stomp, a native of Laos, has achieved a major milestone: He is now the recipient of one of the most prestigious awards in all of Hollywood cinema, the F.A.M.E. Award for Outstanding Director. His abilities as BOTH a director and an actor make him a unique choice for this award. J.J. Stomp has an excellent reputation as someone who is easy to work with and has a very cool way about handling his movie productions. His critics say that his martial arts training and expertise give him the discipline needed to succeed in the motion picture industry. That is why he is our unanimous choice for this award.
Thunderbeat – Egyptian Sun
Outstanding Live Show Production
This exhilarating theatrical production expands on the multi award-winning CD, Egyptian Sun, by World Renown “Egyptian Sun” creator, Devara ThunderBeat. It blends Middle Eastern, Tribal World and Trance Grooves to a full orchestration and choir. Egyptian Sun Show Awards: Los Angeles Music Awards for Best Stage Musical of the Year. ZMR International Music Award Nomination from radio stations around the world. Egyptian Sun’s Sound Track has been played in 60 countries and became #1 in Barcelona for 6 weeks and on the music charts for 8 Months. A Phoenix Music Awards for Best Stage Musical of the Year and A Phoenix Music Awards for Best Stage Musical of the Year and just received a 2020 Las Vegas producers Choice Honors for Outstanding Live Show Production, Egyptian Sun. Journey through the origins of Ancient Egypt’s mysteries in this contemporary musical masterpiece set in the land of beauty and magic. Ancient Egypt is unveiled through hypnotically electrifying sound, light, color and dance, overlying the splendor of pyramids and ancient temples honoring the “gods” and “goddesses”. Ancient Egyptian orchestration and primal secrets are revealed as tonal sounds, chants, and other-worldly narration that support a rich cast of characters. A TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCE!!! www.EgyptianSunShow.com
Wishman
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
This award recipient earned praise from film critics everywhere for the compelling story of Frank Shankwitz, the founder of the Make A Wish Foundation. It tells the true story of the man who loved children so much he willingly sacrificed much of his personal life and his own money to try and help the terminally ill ones have one last wish before they passed away. We are honored to have him and his film represented at this award show.
IN3DRAGON
Outstanding International Motion Picture Achievement
This epic style production film is the work of Southeast Asian producer JJ Stomp. In a throwback to the campy 1970’s Bruce Lee films,
the movies producers and directors utilize incredible costuming and massive martial brawls as the back drop to a fairly good story line. Like his other films, Stomp spares no detail in displaying cultural uniqueness to his cinema projects. This project was filmed in 3 different countries and DID NOT rely on fancy CGI effects to achieve it’s aim to entertain. The Producers Choice Honors are proud to present the Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award to this movie.
Bucks of America
Outstanding Historical Motion Picture Achievement
From acclaimed producer Robert Gatewood. Rarely has any film maker, let alone an independent one, made a film like this one. Most USA students learn through their school years about the American Revolution of 1776. The roots of that revolution are not delved into historically speaking very often. This film takes a look at the 5 year period prior to the start of American colonialists uprising that led to the ousting of the occupying British military forces. The story centers around the year 1770, the “spark” to the eventual war that helped to birth the USA. The Producers Choice Honors are proud to recognize this movie with a Las Vegas F.A.M.E. Award.
Danny “The Count” Koker
Mass Media Career Achievement Award
This beloved national media public figure has been a fixture on Histoy Channel on BOTH Pawn Stars and Counting Cars. In Las Vegas, he is one the cities biggest local celebrities. He and his wife Korie also own of the most successful live music venues in Las Vegas called Count’s Vamp’d. The venue showcases national acts as well as local bands and has what many food critics have proclaimed ” the best New York steak in Las Vegas.” We are proud to present him this award.
Andrew Steel
Outstanding Actor Performance in a Feature Motion Picture
There is a saying in Hollywood that goes like this: ” If you want to find the prefect American actor, hire an Australian.” In the case of Andrew Steel, the producers of Wishman landed the perfect actor to portray Frank Shankwitz. He has received critical acclaim for his role in the movie. That is why the Producers Choice Honors are pleased to recognize his work at this award show.
Stoney Curtis
Career Achievement Las Vegas Musical Entertainer
Throughout the years Stoney Curtis has garnered international attention as a touring blues guitarist with his own hit album releases. In 1998 he formed the STONEY CURTIS BAND self –releasing his first record, a double live album called “Alive & Unleashed.” The album caught the attention of Shrapnel Records producer Mike Varney who visited a blues club in Las Vegas to see Curtis play and ended up signing him to the label in 2004. Stoney has since released 5 critically acclaimed albums for Shrapnel in a 10 year career for the label. Mike Varney has called him a true American Guitar Hero. Curtis adds his immense talent as guitarist to Count’s 77 and co-wrote the original songs on the new release. This award is well earned.
Shanea Speidel
Outstanding National Community Service Award
This woman has earned folk hero status for her efforts at achieving some justice for women who have been victims of abuse and exploitation. Her private group Facebook page has dozens of members who have been victimized by a particular individual who has misused and mislead dozens of women into morally compromising situations. Ms. Speidel has used her skills as an investigator and media public figure to close down this person’s illicit activities. With tremendous thanks to her efforts, this predator has been shut down and his exploitation of women have been halted. Shanea Speidel, our organization salutes you.
Steve Unger
Metal Church: Career Achievement Rock Music Performer
This amazing bassist is the core of this incredible musical ensemble. Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in Seattle, Washington as Shrapnel in 1980, their first album was released in 1984, and the band’s most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008. Their popularity continues to grow and our awards program are proud to bring much deserved recognition to the band via Steve Unger.
John Michael Ferrari
EVENT PERFORMER
Outstanding Triple A Album
Entertainer John Michael Ferrari writes emotional story-telling songs with touches of sophistication and childlike wonder crossing several genres. He creates lyrics and music describing his life experiences and those of others. Fans enjoy John Michael’s performance and appreciate his songwriting talent. There’s nothing like seeing John Michael Ferrari perform in person … a real showman. John Michael’s recent country-crossover album, Be the Smile on Your Face,” was recorded at Larry Beaird Studios, Nashville, produced by Pepper Jay, and written, arranged, and performed by John Michael Ferrari for indie label Cappy Records. The album’s single, “So Beautiful,” is climbing up several Country and AC Radio charts. www.Johnmichaelferrari.com
Steve Sanson
Outstanding Nevada Community Service Award
Steve Sanson is a Marine Corps veteran who has made it is life’s mission to hold Family Court judges accountable to the public that they serve. He runs an organization called Veteran’s In Politics that focuses all of it’s resources on attending family court hearings and holding judges to their sworn oaths to uphold the law. Steve is considered a hero by many families who have only him as their last hope to seek and find justice for their cases. The Producers Choice Honors are proud to recognize Steve Sanson for all of his contributions to families and the state of Nevada.
Stephentodd Tracy (STT)
Outstanding Pop Single: More than a Memory
STT (Stephentodd Tracy) is a triple threat top 40 performer–sings, writes, and produce/engineers. His original Forbidden Love is in the top 100 on the Media Base radio charts. S T T has an awesome tenor voice heard all over the world – Carnegie Hall, NYC, England, Africa, Hollywood – and of course his home town Las Vegas NV. A prodigy of musical training from very early, through performing arts school, trainings with top industry professionals, etc. he now writes, produces, records, and engineers at his studio Las Vegas Record Lab. S T T also mentors young and first time musicians at the studio and with a Success in Life and Music seminar.
Garden of Eden
Outstanding Rock Revival Show
We are pleased to present this amazing group of rock musicians with their own Las Vegas F.A.M.E. Award for Outstanding International Rock Band. With two of the best guitarists anywhere in the world, and a solid drummer bassist to go with them, this veteran band are hard to match. Multiple award winning guitarist Dan Crenshaw writes most of the material and has extensive touring experience with some of the biggest names in rock n’ roll. For ten years, Dan Crenshaw has participated in our awards show productions as performer, presenter and recipient. This award marks his highest achievement to date.
Stet Howland
Career Achievement: Rock Music Drummer
This award recipient has been a fixture in the rock music creative community since 1980. His time spent with the legendary metal group W.A.S.P. solidified his position as one of the all time greats is his field. Once he joined up with the Seattle based Metal Church, he became iconic to millions of fans around the world. The producers Choice Honors are proud to present a F.A.M.E. Award to this most worthy recipient.
Ron and Isabella
Outstanding International Rock Music Charity Event Promoters
These two impresarios will be receiving a total of THREE awards for their work as producers in the motion picture industry. In the past 2 years alone, these multiple award winning humanitarians have produced and successfully promoted over a dozen concerts featuring major star talent. Some of those big names include Ted Nugent, Lita Ford, Berlin, Tower of Power, Dokken, Gin Blossoms, Stryper and many others. They have been recognized by BOTH national and state governments for their work on behalf of the less fortunate. We Are proud to honor them once again in Las Vegas.
The Siren
EVENT PERFORMER
Outstanding Theatrical Performer
The Siren is an award winning multi-instrumentalist, music producer, singer/songwriter, engineer, and audio frequency scientist who invented a genre called “Epicstep” which has vocals, classical rooted composed music in a pop formula, and frequency modulation/manipulation circuit bending breakdowns in it. The Siren’s music is avant-garde and cinematic. It is created in an ancient sacred geometry based mathematical tuning at 432hz frequency based scale said to repair DNA through the vibrations as reported by ancient civilizations whose instruments were uncovered in this tuning. 432 number is also significant in the creation of our planet, moon, sun, and living organisms from the carbon molecule, to fibonacci based life forms, to the frequency beat of the planet and the human brain. The Siren is an activist who is a producer of the Free and Equal Elections Foundation’s United We Stand Fest where he performed at the 2016 Presidential debates in Colorado, has appeared on RT News in D.C, performed at March Against Monsanto, and co-headlined the Zeitgeist Media Fest by film director Peter Joseph. The Siren has won The Producer’s Choice Honors, The Global Music Awards, The Akademia Music Awards, has been nominated at the LA Music Awards, The Hollywood Music in Media Awards, was mentioned on the cover of 360 Magazine, charted #1 on Reverbation for LA, #1 in America, and #3 Globally. His music was featured on MTV Buzzworthy Top 5, with Just Bieber tour’s opening singer Vita Chambers with their hit “Fix You”. The Siren’s live ensemble consists of Singer/Pianist/Producer Kaisi Berick, Guitarist Apolla Asteria, Tribal Drummer Chazz Sutton, Fire Dancers, and Spark Grinders.
Brooklyn Roads
EVENT PERFORMER
A fresh new approach to a Neil Diamond tribute concert, Brooklyn Roads: A Modern Tribute to the music of Neil Diamond, is a high energy musical journey that captures the essence of Diamond , the man with modern styling and a big rock sound. Inspired by the Hot August Nights New York City Concerts held in Madison Square Garden in 2008. This is the show that every audience, not just Neil Diamond fans will appreciate and want to sing along with.
Mandy Lion
Career Achievement: Male Vocalist
Lead singer and frontman for WWIII (World War Three) feat. Jimmy Bain (Rainbow, Dio), Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven And Hell). Wicked Alliance feat. Jake E Lee (Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands), Jimmy Bain and Ray Lucier (David Lee Roth, Korn). Mandy Lion’s Pride feat. Les Warner (The Cult) and Ron Mancuso (Red Dragon Cartel). Mandy Lion Band feat. Michael Devin (Whitesnake), Mikkey Dee (Motorhead, Dokken, Scorpions), James Kottack (Scorpions), Jimmy Bain and Les Warner. Mandy Lion was discovered by Don and David Arden (Jet Records, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Black Sabbath, ELO, Air Supply) Label associations: Hollywood Records, Sony Records and Electra Records.
Terri Lynn Schmidt
Humanitarian Author Award
The Las Vegas F.A.M.E. award recipient for this prestigious accolade is an award winning author and world traveler. She has traveled to many continents, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and both Central and South America. Her missions are simple: to help bring healing and God’s word to remote places that need it the most. Her work with children primarily has been her most rewarding, as she has brought joy and happiness to thousands of them all over the world. Photographs don’t lie. They tell the true story of a woman driven by a positive spiritual force to change lives through prayer and a determined women’s ministry that has a divine providence to save countless human souls in the most desolate and poverty stricken places on Planet Earth. Our organization and it’s sponsors and supporters salute her and her incredible contributions to the betterment of all humankind.
Jackie Jackson
Lifetime Achievement Award: Entertainer
Second oldest member of the Jackson Family who performed with his siblings Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson in The Jackson 5. He has run both Jesco Records and Futurist Entertainment. He first took the stage with his brothers in 1964.
He had his best solo success with his #84 R&B album Be the One. He was married to Enid Adren Spann from 1974 to 1987. The couple had two children named Sigmund Jr. and Brandi. In 2001, he married Victoria Triggs, but they later divorced. His 1973 self-titled debut album was produced by Berry Gordy and his production team The Corporation.
Mitch Perry Group
Outstanding Music Video: Believe
Once again Mitch Perry continues to amaze not only his loyal fans, but the entire world with his musical genius. This video connects with the viewer on a most relatable level. Not only is the song masterpiece of rock music perfection, the message is one that every human being on Planet Earth can relate to. The Las Vegas F.A.M.E. Awards and the Producers Choice Honors are proud to showcase this video for our July 28th, 2020 award show in Las Vegas.
Gold Lemonade
EVENT PERFORMER
Outstanding Hip Hop Performers
Since signing with Critically Amused in 2018, Gold Lemonade has amassed over 750,000 streams (including well over 135,000 for “How You Feel,” which dropped in March of 2019), 2.25 million YouTube views, and their tracks have been added to over 5,000 top-performing playlists. Their debut single “Cake Up” had an exclusive premiere on Billboard.com, followed by several other tracks (“Paradize,” “Hippie” and “Count on Me”), a four-part EP titled Summer Lime and a 16-track fan-pleasing mixtape. We are proud to honor this musical group at our 202 Las Vegas award show.
Driven By Turmoil
EVENT PERFORMER
Outstanding National Metal Band
Driven by Turmoil brings you strong and positive energy with their style of groove metal. Their goal is to rock with pure energy that hits you from start to finish. 2020 is a year full of great opportunities for DBT to roll with you. Horns up!! Their first album, Locked in the Groove was released in February 2018. The band has gained great momentum in the last three years. Driven by Turmoil won the best band championship in the Heart for Hayden Music Festival in 2019. They rolled a solid year of live music to include three tours to different states. DBT continues to perform direct support for many national and international artists and festivals. With their continued efforts at N.A.M.M, the band has started to record their second album to be released 2021. Rod, Tommy, Jeremy and Andrew would like to thank all who have joined the movement!
Sally Steele
Career Achievement Magazine Publisher
Sally Steele is Publisher, Founder CEO Editor- In-Chief of VEGAS ROCKS! Magazine which she founded in 2004 with 137 Print issues in 14 years and continues to this day at VEGASROCKS.com. With many years of success featuring the music and entertainment scene in Las Vegas, Mayor Oscar Goodman proclaimed August 11th 2007 VEGAS ROCKS! Magazine Day. Sally started her professional Journey when she moved to Hollywood in 1980, where she formed her band that played on the Sunset Strip. Sally wrote and sang all the songs on all three of her CDs, with one single winning on MTV’s Basement Tapes, and another, “Alone in Love”, becoming a popular seller in Europe and Japan. She also landed several roles on television and in movies, along with lead and featured roles in several MTV videos which included “Hungry Eyes” with Eric Carmen and the lead role in “Little Lady” by Duke Jupiter which was in the top 10 rotation on MTV in 1984. In 2008, Sally founded VEGASROCKSTV.com interviewing major stars in the Entertainment World.
Billy Stokes
Outstanding Rock Album
Who in the heck is Billy Stokes? How did he get Frank Marino, Pat Travers, Les Dudek, Barry Sparks, and Marc Storace of the Swiss rock giant Krokus to make an album with him? Seriously… for a name that is a true unknown in the international rock world, Billy put together a pretty fun album. Stokes is a rock guitarist/songwriter from Tucson, Arizona. He went to So Cal and tried to make it but ended up in the military… the army to be exact. He traded his guitar for a gun and found himself in Germany. The album rocks hard and is very legit. Billy is obviously both a rocker and a warrior. This music is in his heart and soul.
Bobby Kimbal
Lifetime Achievement Male Vocalist
Orange, Texas, U.S. Robert Troy Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the original and longtime frontman of the rock band Toto from 1977 to 1984 and again from 1998 to 2008. Kimball has also performed as a solo artist and session singer. The Las Vegas F.A.M.E. Awards are proud to recognize his achievements at our event in 2020.
D-Lo
Outstanding Female Vocalist
For the past 22 years D’London has successfully owned and run several of her own businesses, including Horizon Records, her Record Label, a lingerie line called “Exhale” and a high heel couture shoe line. She has also written two books; …and in the end, which is a book about rising above trauma she’s experienced and …as life passes, which is a book of memoirs of her life, year by year. D’London is passionate about her recording artist career, with her claim to fame being a Grammy Nomination on the Grammy Ballot .