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BRIT Awards 2024: Raye calls her beloved grandmother Agatha Dawson on stage as she wins Album of the Year, leaving viewers in tears

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Raye, 26, called her grandmother Agatha Dawson on stage with her as she picked up Album of the Year at the Brits on Saturday, and fans can't get enough.

Raye called her grandmother Agatha Dawson on stage with her as she picked up Album of the Year at the Brits on Saturday, and viewers at home were left in tears.

Looking at her grandmother, the 26-year-old singer said through tears: ‘I want to thank my grandmother for her prayers. My grandmother is up until 3 in the morning praying for me and my beautiful sisters. I love you a lot.’

Raye, who was wearing a stunning white dress, then looked out at the audience and revealed: “My middle name is Agatha and this is Agatha Dawson, ladies and gentlemen.”

She stood back and allowed Agatha, looking beautiful in traditional Ghanaian kente, to enjoy the enthusiastic applause that filled every corner of the O2.

The ‘Escapism’ singer continued: ‘I’m so sorry, I want to thank all the writers. I’m ugly crying on national television. I love music. All I wanted to be was an artist and now I’m an artist with an Album of the Year. Thank you very much, come on grandma, let’s go.’

Raye, 26, called her grandmother Agatha Dawson on stage with her as she picked up Album of the Year at the Brits on Saturday, and fans can't get enough.

Raye, 26, called her grandmother Agatha Dawson on stage with her as she picked up Album of the Year at the Brits on Saturday, and fans can’t get enough.

Raye said through tears: 'I want to thank my grandmother for her prayers. My grandmother is up until 3 in the morning praying for me and my beautiful sisters. I love you a lot'

Raye said through tears: 'I want to thank my grandmother for her prayers. My grandmother is up until 3 in the morning praying for me and my beautiful sisters. I love you a lot'

Raye said through tears: ‘I want to thank my grandmother for her prayers. My grandmother is up until 3 in the morning praying for me and my beautiful sisters. I love you a lot’

Raye won six British awards on Saturday night, the most any artist has won at once, and she celebrated in her slippers.

Raye won six British awards on Saturday night, the most any artist has won at once, and she celebrated in her slippers.

Raye won six British awards on Saturday night, the most any artist has won at once, and she celebrated in her slippers.

Emotional fans took to X, formerly Twitter, and said: ‘I’m not sitting here crying about Raye n.No one deserves it more than her!!! And a shout out to grandma in the kente!!!’

“Me telling my grandkids that Raye brought her grandmother Agatha on stage at the #BritAwards to accept album of the year: (GIF of man saying ‘pretty amazing’).”

“Having Raye bring her grandmother up on stage to win her album of the year and then start crying makes me emotional.”

“Raye CLEANING and his old manager gave him the album of the year award while carrying his grandmother on stage, I’m actually sobbing.”

‘Raye is emotional and crying after winning Album of the Year. We’re all excited and crying, Big up Raye and Grandma Agatha #BritAwards #Brits.’

Raye owes me a whole box of tissues! How sweet it was to go on stage with her #BRITs grandma.’

‘Raye and her grandmother make me sob. What a beautiful moment of pure love. I’m very happy for her ❤️ #thebritawards.’

‘Just saw RAYE winning ALBUM OF THE YEAR at the #BritAwards and what a beautiful tribute to her grandmother!! And I could see exactly how much this meant to her. I really cried.’

‘I don’t get excited for Raye when she brings her grandmother on stage. This is A MOMENT and she deserves it all. #BRIT.’

‘Crying for @raye and how independent she is and has been since the beginning of her career, touching moment inviting her grandmother on stage to take home another much deserved win! A true heroine. #britawards2024 @BRITAwards.’

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1709430982 763 BRIT Awards 2024 Raye calls her beloved grandmother Agatha Dawson

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1709430983 128 BRIT Awards 2024 Raye calls her beloved grandmother Agatha Dawson

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Raye fans and regular Brit viewers flocked to X, most moved to tears by Raye and Grandma Agatha.

Raye fans and regular Brit viewers flocked to X, most moved to tears by Raye and Grandma Agatha.

Raye fans and regular Brit viewers flocked to X, most moved to tears by Raye and Grandma Agatha.

This year’s BRITS were organized by Love Island’s maya jamaRoman Kemp and Clara Amfoand will also feature a number of guest presenters.

Raye took home the first gong presented that night, Song of the Year for her hit Escapism ft 070 Shake, shortly before also taking home the gong for R&B Act and Best New Artist.

He was crying his eyes out when he later accepted Album of the Year, Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.

The star now holds the record for the most BRITs won in a single ceremony, a record that was previously four, held jointly by Blur (1995), Adele (2016) and Harry Styles (2023).

She had been nominated seven times (the most ever for a single artist in one year), but couldn’t have won more than she did, as she was shortlisted twice for song of the year: for Escapism, which won the title. , and by Prada.

In addition to Raye’s big hits, Dua Lipa won best pop act, while Kylie Minogue, who made a huge comeback last year with Padam Padam, took home the global icon award. The night was dominated by the winners, who won gongs in all but four categories.

Dua Lipa picked up the fan-voted Pop Act gong and gushed to her fans: “I guess for more reasons than one my fans are the reasons I’m here today, so I want to give a huge thank you to everyone and each one of them”. Only one of you has voted for me.

A record 98 artists entered the new BRIT 2024 award, which has been designed by British visual artist and painter Rachel Jones.

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1709430985 279 BRIT Awards 2024 Raye calls her beloved grandmother Agatha Dawson

Raye then looked at the audience and revealed, “My middle name is Agatha, and this is Agatha Dawson, ladies and gentlemen.”

THE BRITISH WINNERS AT A GLANCE

SONG OF THE YEAR – Miracle Casso x RAYE – Prada

ARTIST OF THE YEAR – RAYE

ALBUM OF THE YEAR – RAYE, My 21st Century Blues

GROUP OF THE YEAR – Selva

WORLD ICON – Kylie Minogue

DANCE ACT – Calvin Harris

ALTERNATIVE ROCK – Bring Me The Horizon

HIP HOP/GRIME/RAP ACT – Casisdead

INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF THE YEAR – Boygenius

INTERNATIONAL SONG OF THE YEAR – Miley Cyrus, Flowers

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST – SZA

Pop Act – Dua Lipa

BEST NEW ARTIST – RAYE

BRIT RISING STAR – The Last Supper

R&B LAW – RAYE

Miley Cyrus was noticeably absent that night, sending her thanks for her International Song Award win for her smash hit Flowers in a video message.

She said: ‘Hello everyone at Brits. “I wanted to thank you so much for voting for Flowers as international song of the year, and a special thank you for giving me a place to wear this dress,” she said, holding up her tiny gold number.

‘It’s amazing to win, but the real prize is having this amazing song reach everyone. I know this video is a little short but I just wanted it to match my dress.’

Dua Lipa and Ellie Goulding pulled out all the stops as they led the proceedings.

Double nominee Dua, 28, opened the ceremony with her new song Training Season from her upcoming third studio album.

The singer looked incredible in an all-leather look as Ellie, 37, burst onto the stage just a week after announcing the end of her marriage.

The evening ended with Dua Lipa presenting Kylie with the Global Icon Award, giving way to the Australian pop star’s final performance.

‘It’s okay, I’m just going to be sobbing to Raye, you did that!’ said an excited Kylie as she took the stage.

‘You did that. Brits, thank you very much. I really tried to think hard about what to say tonight, but I knew I couldn’t plan anything and I knew it would just be about emotion.’

‘For some of you it has been a lifetime: 36 years and counting of experiences together and what really gets me is the love of music and the connection with people… I have friends in this room that I have worked with over the years. ‘

The pop superstar then took to the stage to perform a medley of her greatest hits, including her recent chart-topper Padam Padam, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, Slow and Love At First Sight.

BRIT AWARDS 2024 WINNERS

THE SONG OF THE YEAR

Calvin Harris – Miracle

Casso x RAYE – Prada – WINNER

Central Cee – Let it go

Dave – sprinter

Dua Lipa – Dance the Night

Ed Sheeran – Eyes Closed

J Hus – Who told you?

Kenya Grace – Strangers

Lewis Capaldi – I wish you the best

Pink Panther – The boy is a liar

RAYE – Escapism

Rudimental – Dancing is healing

Stormzy – Firebae

Change nightclub – React

Venebee – Messy in the Sky

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1709422154 696 BRIT Awards 2024 Maya Jama stuns in fishtail dress as

BEST NEW ARTIST

mahalia

Olivia Dean

Pink Panther

RAYE – WINNER

Yuseff Dayes

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Arlo Parks

Central EEC

David

Dua Lipa

Fred again…

J Hus

Jessie Ware

little simz

Olivia Dean

RAYE – WINNER

GROUP OF THE YEAR

Blur

Persecution and status

Headie Uno and K-Trap

Jungle – WINNER

young fathers

INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF THE YEAR

Blink 182

Boygenius – WINNER

foo fighters

gabriels

Paramore

DANCE ACT

Barry can’t swim

becky hill

Calvin Harris – WINNER

Fred again…

Romy
R&B Law

Cleo Sol

jorja smith

mahalia

RAYE – WINNER

sault

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1709422155 733 BRIT Awards 2024 Maya Jama stuns in fishtail dress as

ALTERNATIVE ROCK

Blur

Bring me the horizon – WINNER

The Rolling Stones

young fathers

Yusseff Dayes

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1709422155 457 BRIT Awards 2024 Maya Jama stuns in fishtail dress as

HIP HOP/GRIME/RAP ACT

Casidead – WINNER

Central EEC

David

J Hus

little simz

POP ACT

Calvin Harris

Charli XCX

Dua Lipa – WINNER

Olivia Dean

RAY

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST

asake

burned boy

Carolina Polachek

CMAT

Minogue Kylie

King’s wool

Miley Cyrus

Olivia Rodrigo

SZA – WINNER

Taylor Swift

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1709422155 924 BRIT Awards 2024 Maya Jama stuns in fishtail dress as

INTERNATIONAL SONG OF THE YEAR

Billie Eilish – What was I made for?

David Kushner – Daylight

Doja Cat – Paint the town red

Jazzy – Giving me

Libyanca – People

Coach Meghan – Made you look

Miley Cyrus – Flowers – WINNER

Noah Kahan – Stick Season

Oliver Tree – I miss you

Olivia Rodrigo – Vampire

Peggy Gou – Says like

Rema – Calm down

SZA – Kill Bill

Tate McRae – Greedy –

Tyla – Water

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Blur – the ballad of darren

J Hus – Beautiful

Little Simz – No thanks

RAYE – My 21st Century Blues – WINNER

Young Parents – Heavy Heavy

RISING BRITISH STAR

Caity Baser

Sekou Island

The Last Supper – WINNER

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