AI acts to perform live at first AI Music Awards in Los Angeles
AI-made singers will perform live on stage in Los Angeles on 13 November at an awards show built around them.
The first AI Music Awards is organised by SIQA – The Sonic Intelligence Academy. It takes place at The Mayan in Downtown Los Angeles. The ceremony will stream worldwide.
SIQA describes the event as "the first show of its kind". The billing will test what a live set looks like when the headliner is software.
Five acts were named in the initial announcement: Xania Monet, Olivia B Moore, Chaisen Hale, EJ Rogers and Sheena Taylor. The awards website also lists Godfellow and Aries Ivory, bringing the billed line-up to seven so far, according to Music Business Worldwide.
The performances are planned as hybrid human and AI showcases. SIQA says each set will use a live band with immersive visuals. That setup means human musicians on stage alongside systems that generate voices, songs and imagery in real time.
The best known name on the bill is Xania Monet. She is the AI act created by songwriter Telisha "Nikki" Jones, who fed her own poetry into Suno, an AI music tool that turns text prompts into songs, to produce the track How Was I Supposed To Know?
Jones then signed the project to Neil Jacobson's Hallwood Media. The deal was reported as a multi-million-dollar agreement after rival offers reached 3 million US dollars. The figure was reported by Music Business Worldwide, not confirmed in a filing.
The night will hand out trophies across 25 categories. They include AI Song of the Year, AI Artist of the Year, AI Album of the Year and AI Producer of the Year.
The show follows a separate SIQA announcement on 10 September. The academy detailed a Verified Registry and companion app for logging AI involvement in tracks. In plain terms, it is a provenance record, a credit sheet that states which parts of a song were made or assisted by AI.
For viewers, this means two stories in one night. One is the concert, with AI voices fronting a live band. The other is the industry around it, as organisers try to set rules for credit and payment before the format spreads further.
