The london rapper stormzy could be nominated at the 40. Brit awards ceremony on tuesday evening to repeat its triumph of 2018.
The 26-year-old is nominated for best british solo artist and for best british album ("heavy is the head"), both awards he already won two years ago. Furthermore stormzy’s single "vossi bop" is nominated as song of the year.
In the category of solo artists he competes with former one-direction-singer harry styles, rapper dave and singers and songwriters michael kiwanuka and lewis capaldi. Curious: all five candidates are also nominated for album of the year. There are no female nominations in this category this year.
In the award for best british solo artist, singer freya ridings has a good chance of prevailing over charli XCX, FKA twigs, mabel and mahalia. Coldplay are considered the favorites for the award for best british band. Bastille, foals and heavy metal band bring me the horizon are also nominated.
On the international level, the list of nominees for solo artists is particularly high-caliber this year, with ariana grande, camila cabello, lana del rey, lizzo and 18-year-old grammy sensation billie eilish ("bad guy"). In the men’s category, rock legend bruce springsteen ("born in the USA") will compete against four hip-hop stars, including tyler the creator and post malone.
After the grammys, the brits, created in 1977, are among the most important music awards in the world. The awards ceremony will take place at a show in london’s O2 arena. This year, in addition to nominees such as stormzy and harry styles, old star rod stewart ("da ya think I’m sexy?") appear at the ceremony. According to media reports, billie eilish is to perform her new james bond theme song "no time to die" together with film composer hans zimmer.