Chappell Roan nudged apart Sabrina Carpenter to win the Grammy for finest new artist Sunday, capping a remarkably explosive rise to fame for an artist dropped by her final document label.
Roan, who’s overtly queer and faucets into drag tradition, was the sassy toast of the pop world in 2024 with tracks that embody “Good Luck, Babe!” “Red Wine Supernova” and “Hot To Go!” from her 2023 album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.”
In her speech, she known as for document labels to present a livable wage and well being care, particularly for creating artists. “It was devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and dehumanized,” Roan mentioned.
She ended with a line that acquired loads of cheers: “Labels, we got you but do you got us?”
Roan can also be up for 3 different Grammys — album of the yr, track of the yr and document of the yr. She misplaced each finest pop solo efficiency and finest pop vocal album to Carpenter.
For one of the best new artist crown, Roan beat out Carpenter, Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.
Roan started her music profession in 2015 when she signed with Atlantic Data, releasing a number of singles together with “Pink Pony Club.” In 2020, the label dropped her. She moved again to her hometown to work as a barista earlier than releasing her debut full-length album.
Roan first hit the mainstream because the opener for Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour and drew a record-breaking crowd at Lollapalooza.
She additionally received finest new artist on the 2024 MTV VMAs, beating Shaboozey, Gracie Abrams, Tyla and Teddy Swims.
“I think that a lot of the songs are from daydreams, and a lot of that daydreaming happened from Missouri, from this repressed state of not having a queer community growing up and feeling really weird,” she advised the AP in 2023.
She joins previous finest new artist winners like The Beatles, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Tradition Membership, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, Adele, Dua Lipa and Probability the Rapper.
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