Rina Sawayama announces Brit Awards and Mercury Prize eligibility update after #SawayamaIsBritish campaign

Rina Sawayama has performed her single ‘XS’ at the iconic Abbey Road Studios.The artist was nominated in the BRITs Rising Star category last week (March 11) alongside Pa Salieu and Griff and has now marked the occasion with a special recording session.In the clip Sawayama performs ‘XS’, the ’90s R&B-inspired third single from her debut album ‘SAWAYAMA‘, which was released last April.Reacting to the nomination last week, Sawayama said: “I literally fell to the floor when I found out that I’d been

Rina Sawayama, Pa Salieu and Griff have all been nominated for the prestigious 2021 BRITs Rising Star award.Previous winners of the new music-focused award, which was previously known as the BRITs Critics’ Choice, include Adele, Jorja Smith and Sam Fender. Celeste picked up the prize last year.Sawayama, Salieu and Griff are the three nominees for this year’s BRITs Rising Star award.

Rina Sawayama has been announced as one of the nominees for this year’s BRITs Rising Star award – significant because, until two weeks ago, she was not eligible. The other artists up for the prize are Griff and Pa Salieu.“I literally fell to the floor when I found out that I’d been nominated for Rising Star”, says Sawayama.

Rina Sawayama, Griff and Pa Salieu have been announced as nominees for the 2021 BRITs Rising Star Award.

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Lucy Mecklenburgh has shared a look inside her adorable son Roman’s first birthday celebrations.The cute tot tuned one on 7 March and to celebrate the special occasion, mum Lucy and dad Ryan Thomas, who have started renovations on their new Edwardian home, pulled out all the stops. Sharing Roman’s day with her 1.7 million Instagram followers, former TOWIE star Lucy, 29, admitted she couldn’t believe her little one was already one.

Charli XCX has announced the release of the first single from her supergroup with The 1975 and No Rome.Last night (February 28), the ‘claws’ singer took to social media to tease that she’s “forming a supergroup” with The 1975 and No Rome, adding that was “v excited” at the prospect of working with the two acts.Charli XCX has now unveiled that their first collaboration is a song called ‘Spinning’ and it will arrive on Thursday (March 4).Taking to Twitter earlier tonight (March 1), the

Rina Sawayama has said that spearheading the movement to change eligibility rules for the Brit Awards and Mercury Prize is “the proudest moment of her career”.The singer has campaigned heavily to have the rules changed for British solo artists at awards events and contacted the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).Then this week saw Sawayama – who was born in Japan but has lived in the UK for 26 years and has indefinite leave to remain in the country – reveal that a grassroots campaign led to the

direct to your inboxA British citizen has been jailed for breaking a coronavirus quarantine order in Singapore.Nigel Skea, the first Briton to be put behind bars for flouting the rule in the city-state, has been sentenced to two weeks in jail after he climbed an emergency stairwell to visit his fiancee's hotel room.Skea has also been fined 1,000 Singapore dollars (£533).He left his room at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore on three occasions last September and was not wearing a mask,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRina Sawayama’s self-titled debut album is indisputably one of the most innovative pop records of recent years, a head-spinning fusion of nu-metal, Lady Gaga-style pop and ballads that is catnip for critics, fans of daring music (such as her big fan Elton John) and prestigious awards like the Brits and Mercury Prize.So there was no small outcry when Sawayama, 30, who was born in Japan and is not a British citizen but has lived in the U.K.

UK record industry trade group BPI has changed BRIT Award and Mercury Prize rules regarding which artists it classes as British.

Rina Sawayama has scored a major victory in getting eligibility rules changed for the BRIT Awards and the Mercury Prize.The singer has campaigned heavily to have the rules changed for British solo artists at awards events and contacted the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).She wasn’t eligible to enter as a British artist under the current rules in last year’s Mercury Prize for her debut ‘SAWAYAMA’.