Country music star Mickey Guyton sat down with BMAC CEO and president Prophet for a one-on-one conversation at Black Music Action Coalition, in partnership with Billboard presents Act II: A Conversation Around “Three Chords and the Actual Truth.”
Mickey Guyton:
When this was starting, I remember going up to my record label and I said, “I’ve learned to be comfortable being in a room full of people that don’t look like me. And now it’s your turn to learn to be comfortable in a room of people that don’t look like you.”
Prophet:
Come on, sis! Come on, sis!
Four-time Grammy nominee. The 2022 TIME breakthrough artist of the year. Recently released her female anthem “Woman,” honoring women all around the world, was the ode to women empowerment. Make some noise for that too!
With “Remember Her Name,” Mickey made history as the first Black artist to earn a Grammy nomination for best country album. The title track “Remember Her Name also landed Mickey with Grammy nominations for best country song, best country solo performance. This followed Mickey’s groundbreaking Grammy nominations as the first-ever Black female solo artist to earn a nod in the country category for “Black Like Me.”
“Black Like Me” was named one of the top 10 songs of all genres, in 2020 by the NPR, Billboard and Associated Press. She also co-hosted the 56th Academy Country Music Awards on CBS along with Keith Urban, and she was named CMT’s 2021 breakthrough artist of the year. Her music has been featured on the covers of Billboard, profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone. Over the last year, she had been featured in American Songwriter, BBC News, CBS, Sherri, Sesame Street, HITS, Essence, People. All kind of s–t. Make some noise for the superstar herself, Miss Mickey Guyton.
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