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This caps a stunning breakthrough over the past year, with jaws floored by the emphatically enunciated, elastically rhythmic raps on her album Alligator Bites Don’t Heal, and then again by performances such as on Stephen Colbert’s talkshow, her braided hair fused to that of her dancers. Dressed in one of the night’s wackier outfits – think East End pearly queen after five rounds of AI enhancement, complete with sceptre – she’s travelled a long way from the trailer-dwelling and freight train-hopping of her youth, to become a multimillion-streaming performer. Matt B, a little-streamed musician born and raised in Illinois and based in the US, beat representatives from Spain (Antonio Rey), Peru (Ciro Hurtado), and Nigeria (superstars Tems and Rema) to win best global music album for Alkebulan II, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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