RAYE took to stage to carry out her epic and emotional monitor ‘Oscar Successful 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 stated with a giant smile in opposition to a backdrop of strings and piano earlier than breaking into track. Members of the viewers may very well be seen standing as much as get pleasure from her efficiency.
Watch a video of the efficiency beneath.
Raye performs “Oscar Successful Tears” on the 2025 #Grammys pic.twitter.com/KrWryQD1ck
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 3, 2025
RAYE was nominated for 2 Grammy awards this yr, Greatest New Artist and Songwriter of the Yr, Non-Classical. Chappell Roan gained Greatest New Artist, whereas Amy Allen gained the Songwriter of the Yr, Non-Classical class.
RAYE’s street to success has been rocky, with multi-BRIT winner chatting with NME in 2022 about her label struggles, saying: “If you signal with a file label, technically they be just right for you: you’re signing to an organization for them to work on your profession and take you to that subsequent stage.
“However as a lady, it simply doesn’t really feel like that. It feels such as you’re working for them. And you recognize, among the issues I needed to put my physique via to even be capable of that… it’s actually fairly unhappy.”
Upon accepting her Greatest New Artist award, Chappell Roan made a daring acceptance speech demanding higher protections for up-and-coming artists.
She stated: “I instructed myself that if I ever gained a Grammy and received to face up right here earlier than probably the most highly effective folks in music, I might demand that labels within the business profiting thousands and thousands of {dollars} off of artists would provide a habitable wage and well being care, particularly growing artists.”
This yr, comic Trevor Noah returned to host the occasion for the fifth consecutive yr as Beyoncé led the way in which with 11 nominations, making her probably the most nominated artist within the awards’ historical past – she gained the largest 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.
