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Brit Awards 2022 announces rising star nominees: Bree Runway, Lola Young and Holly Humberstone
The three Brit Awards rising star nominees have been unveiled (Picture: PA)
The Brit Awards 2022 has announced their three rising star nominees and it’s a strong women-led line-up.
Bree Runway, Holly Humberstone and Lola Young are the hotly-tipped musicians in the running to scoop the coveted award, which has seen past winners like Adele, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding.
Reacting to the exciting news, Bree, 29, said: ‘I feel so honoured to be recognised by the Brits in this way, it’s all so exciting especially as previous nominees have gone on to do such amazing things, I hope I’m struck by that same luck.
‘Attending the Brits alone has been something I’ve wanted to do for years, but attending as a Rising Star nominee is a DREAM.’
The singer and rapper performed for Michelle Obama at the tender age of 14, with the former First Lady telling her to keep going. One of Bree’s first ever covers, shared online, received over 50million views in a matter of days and received likes from Rihanna, Missy Elliott and 6lack.
Holly Humberstone is overjoyed to be shortlisted, and said: ‘Music has always been my entire life, and being nominated for such a prestigious award really means everything to me. Recognition from the Brits is something I am struggling to comprehend at the moment! it’s truly an honour to be nominated for the Brits Rising Star Award alongside two other incredibly inspiring female artists.’
The 21-year-old released her debut EP, Falling Asleep At The Wheel, in 2020 and wrote the music at her home, imitating sounds of her childhood home.
Bree Runway said becoming a rising star nominee is a ‘dream’ (Picture: PA)
Holly released her debut EP last year (Picture: PA)
Lola Young sings this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert (Picture: PA)
Over the past year, the rising alt-pop star has achieved everything from being nominated for the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award with Apple Music, coming runner up in the BBC Sound of 2021 and being chosen as YouTube’s next Artist On The Rise.
Lola Young is also nominated and said: ‘I can’t believe I’ve been nominated for this award. It feels surreal and completely unexpected. I actually have to pinch myself looking at the other artists that have been nominated previously. It is such a big step for me and I feel very excited to have been nominated!’
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Music fans will be familiar with Lola’s voice as she has just released a spell-binding track for this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert, a new version of the 1984 classic Together in Electric Dreams by Philip Oakley and Giorgio Moroder.
The 2021 Rising Star award winner will be announced on Friday 10th December, while the Brit Awards 2022 takes place on February 8 at London’s O2 Arena.
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