Harry Styles was the big winner at the BRIT awards, Britain’s pop music honors, on Saturday, February 11, winning all four categories he had been nominated in, a week after his triumph at the Grammys.
LONDON, United Kingdom – , song of the year for his synth pop hit “As It Was”, best pop/R&B act and artist of the year, one of two gender-neutral categories introduced last year after BRIT awards organizers got rid of female and male distinctions.
“I’m really, really grateful for this and I’m very aware of my privilege up here tonight,” Styles said in his acceptance speech, dedicating the artist of the year award to a list of female singers.as a member of boy band One Direction, last week won two Grammy awards, including album of the year. A statement on the BRIT Awards’ website said the gender-neutral categories had been introduced so artists were judged “solely on the quality and popularity of their work, rather than on who they are, or how they choose to identify.”
“Of the 71 eligible artists on the longlist, only 12 are women. We recognise this points to wider issues around the representation of women in music that must also be addressed.”
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