Gaby Arow

Talent MGMT | Publicist | Former Host: platforms include: Reprezent 107.3FM - RadioKingOnline | Written for @LinkUpTV and More

[kilolo @mavoswago]

make afrobeats great again

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

Many live, but did you complete your mission? What impact did you have on the world, your community? Kanya King’s legacy will be remembered for generations to come. She had the tenacity and boldness to do what had never done before. She gave us a platform, when there was none.

[MOBO Awards @MOBOAwards]

It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.

Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.

Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.

She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.

What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.

From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.

She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.

When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”

That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.

The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.

The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.

Rest in power, Kanya.

You built this.

All of it.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“After getting what you manifested, ask for discipline to keep it and wisdom to multiply it.”

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

There’s a lot happening in the world right now. Everywhere feels heavy. I pray for God’s divine intervention. To rescue the captured, heal those in need, vindicate and provide justice for those who were wronged and avenge the atrocities that have taken place. In Jesus Name 🙏🏾

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

I don’t think people should live life with regrets but I do wish we knew or were taught better in some instances. But I guess mistakes are a normal part of life, it’s how you bounce back and learn that makes the difference.

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

I wish I could travel back in time and slap myself for some of my past decisions. Just confront myself and be like can you wake up…

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

A wish waits, a desire pursues - WT

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

@Ashanti98677576 Honestly she needs to be arrested, friendship aside, where’s the moral compass? no one has reported her ? We’ll see on the next episode.

[Wisdom Stoics @WisdomStoics]

take the risk.

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

God first everything else after.
When God is first, everything will fall into alignment and come with ease. And even if there’s challenges trust God to rectify and solve on your behalf. The real result in any situation is for God to take control 🙏🏾

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

Sometimes we unintentionally make Idols of things that have a high priority in our lives. Mistakenly putting them before God. If 100% of your focus is on other things, where does God fit in.

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

I use to think I needed a good ‘work, life, balance’ but in actual fact I need a better ‘ God, work, life, balance’.

[Lumen @LumenX_]

Trust in the Lord.

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

If God has to be obeyed less for it to happen it’s too expensive ‼️

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

Learn to wait well in your season of waiting.

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

Be mindful, If it costs you peace or your principals it’s too expensive. - Pastor Tai #WorshipTab

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

Happy Birthday @officialnairam1 1 of 1‼️ There will never be another. Lord of Lamba, more life 🥳🤍

[her🎀 @iam_dijah5]

Even in saturated market,God will make room for you

[Gaby Arow @GabyArow]

A serious prayer point 🙏🏾