Blue Ivy Wins her first BET Award With Beyoncé in 'Brown Skin Girl' from The Lion King: The Gift Soundtrack
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's oldest daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, won her BET Award on Sunday, June 28.
"Congratulations BLUE IVY on your NAACP award last night for singing and writing on 'Brown Skin Girl' from the Album The Gift. 👏🏾👏🏾The youngest artist to win a major award👏🏾👏🏾Grandma is soo proud of you❤️❤️❤️ 8 years old!!!!🙏🏾❤️ You are giving all the beautiful little brown girls a voice ❤️," her grandma, Tina Lawson, relayed on Instagram when little Blue Ivy was nominated.
The 8-year-old won the BET Her Award for "Earthy colored Skin Girl," a melody from Beyoncé's The Lion King: The Gift album.
Blue Ivy showed up on the melody close by her mom, Saint Jhn and Wizkid. They beat out individual nominees Alicia Keys for “Underdog,” Ciara, Lupita Nyong’o, Ester Dean, City Girls and LaLa for “Melanin,” Layton Greene for “I Choose,” Lizzo and Missy Elliott for “Tempo,” and Rapsodyand PJ Morton for “Afeni.”
It's not Blue Ivy's first honor for the melody; she likewise got trophies at the 2019 BET Soul Train Awards — scoring the Ashford and Simpson Songwriters' Award — and won the Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration classification at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards.
Blue Ivy already freestyled on a reward track on her father's 2017 album, 4:44, and a year ago was highlighted on Beyoncé's Homecoming album on the tune "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and in the going with Netflix extraordinary.
On Saturday, June 28, the 21-time Grammy victor dropped a one-minute preview for her most up to date project, Black Is King. The video collection, which includes an appearance from Blue Ivy and Jay-Z just as previous Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland, will debut worldwide on Disney Plus on July 31.
“Black Is King is a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience,” Disney and Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment said in reporting the visual collection. “The film is a story for the ages that informs and rebuilds the present. A reunion of cultures and shared generational beliefs. A story of how the people left most broken have an extraordinary gift and a purposeful future.”
The visual collection will likewise highlight visitor specialists from The Lion King: The Gift, including Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Tierra Whack, 070 Shakeand Jessie Reyez.
It reports the narrative of Black families through time told through the story of a youthful ruler's excursion to recover his home and seat with assistance and direction from his dad and precursors.
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