{"id":8479,"date":"2026-02-02T02:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/olivia-dean-grammy-speech-2026-1236169551\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:41:34","slug":"olivia-dean-grammy-speech-2026-1236169551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/olivia-dean-grammy-speech-2026-1236169551\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Dean Shouts Out Her Immigrant Grandparent in Best New Artist Grammys Speech: \u2018I\u2019m a Product of\u00a0Bravery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThis year\u2019s best new artist Grammy category was one of the most stacked in years, with Leon Thomas coming into the race with six nods, the most of any of this year\u2019s nominees in the category. But when last year\u2019s winner, Chappell Roan, announced this year\u2019s honoree on Sunday (Feb. 1), it was no surprise that British singer Olivia Dean<\/a> came out on top.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAfter a rousing performance of her breakthrough hit, \u201cMan I Need,\u201d during the preceding best new artist medley, Dean took the stage in a black sparkly dress with a feathered skirt, and after saying \u201cthank you\u201d and seemingly dropping an excited curse that was censored, the 26-year-old London native wiped away tears as she said she \u201cnever really imagined\u201d she\u2019d ever be up on the Grammy stage.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant,\u201d said the singer born to an English father and Jamaican-Guyanese mother to raucous applause, a pointed comment given the roiling debate over the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement actions across the U.S., which in January resulted in the killing of two American citizens in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be here \u2026 I\u2019m a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated,\u201d Dean added. \u201cWe\u2019re nothing without each other.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe comments were especially poignant given that many of the A-listers in the audience were wearing black-and-white \u201cICE Out\u201d pins as part of an ongoing protest against the raids being conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement troops across the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tDean came out on top over a new artist roster that also included Lola Young and K-pop girl group KATSEYE, who each had two nominations this year, as well as sombr, The Marias, Addison Rae and Alex Warren. In an extended performance slot, all the best new artist nominees performed<\/a>, with Dean, wearing a sparkly red minidress, helping to close it out with her smash the pop bop \u201cMan I Need,\u201d which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs host Trevor Noah noted, between them, this year\u2019s class of best new artist nominees have amassed more than 225 million followers on social media, 27 billion combined streams over the past year and 18 Grammy nominations this year.<\/p>\n


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