2007 – Awarded CCMA Hank Smith Award of Excellence.2006 – Wins second CMA International/Talent Buyer of the Year Award.2003 – Receives Honourary Doctorate of Law degree from the University of Lethbridge.2001 – Wins Country Music Association (CMA) International/Talent Buyer of the Year Award.2001 – University of Lethbridge creates Ron Sakamoto Scholarship.1996 – Receives Award of Exceptional Citizenship from Lethbridge Mayor David Carpenter.After receiving this honour for the next 17 years, the award is re-named to “Ron Sakamoto Talent Buyer or Promoter of the Year” in 2010 1993 – Wins first Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Promoter of the Year.1975 – First event at Lethbridge Sportsplex, a Doobie Brothers concert.1968 – Launches Gold & Gold Productions Ltd.1964 – Opens first nightclub, Honeycomb A Go Go in Lethbridge for teens.He says he plans to continue working in music for as long as he can and even plans to run a 100 metre dash when he is 100 years old.Īccording to a media release from the City of Lethbridge in November 2022, Sakamoto’s long list of accomplishments include: He says so many of the people he has worked with are incredibly talented and genuinely good people, so while he could never pick just one artist as his favourite to work with, he highlighted Johnny Reid, Keith Urban, and Shania Twain.Įarly on in his career, Sakamoto told LNN that he was pressured by many in the music industry to move away from Lethbridge and work from one of the major music hubs, but says he prefers smaller city life in Lethbridge. In the decades that followed, he has promoted artists such as The Guess Who, Bryan Adams, Bee Gees, KISS, Keith Urban, Old Dominion, and many more. Sakamoto has spent more than half of a century working in music promotions, first opening the Honeycomb A Go Go club in Lethbridge in 1964, and started his record label, Gold & Gold Productions Ltd., four years later.

Ron Sakamoto accepts the Walt Grealis Special Acheivement Award at the 2023 JUNO Awards, March 11, 2023.

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