Kanya King is the founder of which music award ceremony?

Kanya King (born in London) is the founder of the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards.

King was born to an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father, being the youngest of their nine children who survived. Her father died when she was 13. Aged 16 she gave birth to her son causing her to drop out of school.

The first MOBO Awards took place in 1996 at London's Connaught Rooms, broadcast on Carlton Television. Since its inception in 1996, it has become one of Europe’s biggest Music Award events.

In 1999 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Other awards include an honorary fellowship of Goldsmiths College, University of London, an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration at London Metropolitan University (2006) as well as a Doctorate from Leeds Metropolitan University (2008).