Blue Ivy Carter is an official Grammy nominee.
When the Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2021 Grammys last month, Beyoncé scored a nomination for best music video for Brown Skin Girl, which Ivy Carter is credited as a featured artist.
The eight-year-old’s name did not appear on the nominees list, but the Grammys recently updated its website to now include her.
Blue Ivy Carter is an official Grammy nominee after the Recording Academy recently updated its website to now include her as a ‘featured artist’ in Beyonce’s video for Brown Skin Girl, which has been nominated for Best Music Video
The update also includes Nigerian singer Wizkid, who appears on the song and video. SAINt JHN – who is featured on the track but was not in the video – was still not listed as a nominee.
The best music video Grammy is awarded to the main and featured artists on the track, as well as the video’s director and producer.
Brown Skin Girl is a celebration of dark- and brown-skinned women and features Beyoncé namedropping Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland. She sings the lyrics, ‘I love everything about you, from your nappy curls to every single curve.’
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Following in mom’s footsteps: Brown Skin Girl is a celebration of dark- and brown-skinned women and Ivy Carter gives a vocal performance that opens and closes the song
Brown Skin Girl has won Ivy Carter a number of awards, including two Soul Train Music Awards, a BET Award and a NAACP Image Award.
Ivy Carter is listed as a co-writer of the song alongside Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Wizkid, SAINt JHN and others.
The 2021 Grammys will take place January 31.
Shush please: Blue Ivy is pictured here telling her parents to stop clapping as she sits with them front row at the Grammys almost three years ago. The funny clip went viral in January 2018
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