RAYE took to stage to carry out her epic and emotional monitor ‘Oscar Profitable Tears’, taken from her 2023 album ‘My twenty first Century Blues’, on the 2025 Grammys.
Making her debut as a performer for the awards present final evening (February 2), she was accompanied by an orchestra on stage. “Hiya Grammys,” she mentioned with an enormous smile in opposition to a backdrop of strings and piano earlier than breaking into track. Members of the viewers might be seen standing as much as get pleasure from her efficiency.
Watch a video of the efficiency beneath.
Raye performs “Oscar Profitable Tears” on the 2025 #Grammys pic.twitter.com/KrWryQD1ck
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 3, 2025
RAYE was nominated for 2 Grammy awards this 12 months, Finest New Artist and Songwriter of the Yr, Non-Classical. Chappell Roan received Finest New Artist, whereas Amy Allen received the Songwriter of the Yr, Non-Classical class.
RAYE’s street to success has been rocky, with multi-BRIT winner talking to NME in 2022 about her label struggles, saying: “Whenever you signal with a report label, technically they give you the results you want: you’re signing to an organization for them to work on your profession and take you to that subsequent stage.
“However as a girl, it simply doesn’t really feel like that. It feels such as you’re working for them. And you already know, a few of the issues I needed to put my physique by way of to even have the ability to that… it’s actually fairly unhappy.”
Upon accepting her Finest New Artist award, Chappell Roan made a daring acceptance speech demanding higher protections for up-and-coming artists.
She mentioned: “I advised myself that if I ever received a Grammy and bought to face up right here earlier than essentially the most highly effective individuals in music, I’d demand that labels within the trade profiting tens of millions of {dollars} off of artists would supply a habitable wage and well being care, particularly growing artists.”
This 12 months, comic Trevor Noah returned to host the occasion for the fifth consecutive 12 months as Beyoncé led the best way with 11 nominations, making her essentially the most nominated artist within the awards’ historical past – she received the most important award of the evening, Album Of The Yr, for ‘Cowboy Carter’ marking her first win within the class.
Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter all carried out, whereas British artists Cynthia Erivo and Coldplay’s Chris Martin additionally joined the line-up.
