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London:

British singer Harry Styles gained the highest awards on Saturday on the UK’s largest widespread music prizes, the Brit Awards, whereas acknowledging his “privilege” for triumphing in a supposedly gender-neutral class that featured no feminine artists. Harry Styles made a number of appearances on stage, profitable awards for artist of the yr, album of the yr, tune of the yr for As It Was and greatest pop/R&B act. “This night has been really, really special to me and I will never forget it,” Harry Styles mentioned.

“I’m so so proud to be a British artist in the world out there.”

The awards ceremony for the second yr operating handed out a gender-neutral primary prize for British artist of the yr.

This title was launched final yr to extend inclusivity after non-binary singer Sam Smith was routinely excluded from beforehand gendered classes in 2021.

Yet, controversially, the class had an all-male shortlist this yr, and Styles in his acceptance speech named ladies artists who had been initially shortlisted for the class however didn’t make the ultimate checklist.

“I’m really really grateful for this and I’m very aware of my privilege up here tonight so this award is for Rina, Charli, Florence, Mabel and Becky”, he mentioned, referring to Rina Sawayama, Charli XCX, Florence Welch, Mabel and Becky Hill.

The Brit Awards chairman Damian Christian advised Music Week this month that it was “disappointing to see the lack of female representation”, blaming a scarcity of eligible 2022 releases by massive feminine stars.

Harry Styles’ clutch of awards got here as little shock after the previous One Direction bandmember earlier this month gained the coveted Grammy award for album of the yr for Harry’s House, which was the UK’s biggest-selling album final yr.

Harry Styles’ reference to his “privilege” on Saturday got here after he prompted mockery together with his Grammy acceptance speech by saying “this doesn’t happen to people like me very often”.

Critics identified that Harry Styles as a white 29-year-old Englishman hardly falls into any underprivileged class.

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It was additionally an enormous evening for a number of younger acts making their recording debuts final yr. Wet Leg, an indie rock band from the Isle of Wight off England’s south coast, gained the group of the yr class and likewise greatest new artist after releasing their catchy debut single Chaise Longue– which they carried out on the ceremony – and their eponymous debut album.

One of the band members acquired an enormous cheer on the present with a political apart that was bleeped out on the tv broadcast: “F*** the Tories”.

They beat the UK’s 2022 Eurovision Song Contest entry, Sam Ryder, who was the primary ever contestant from the flamboyant Europop occasion to be shortlisted for a Brit award – for greatest new artist.

Ryder got here second at Eurovision together with his tune “Space Man”, dropping to Ukraine however reaching the UK’s highest place on the contest for twenty years.

“I used to be on the wedding circuit before this,” he commented in the course of the Brits present, upbeat regardless of not profitable.

“I feel a responsibility to show immense gratitude.”

Rapper Aitch, 23, whose debut album Close to Home included NFT know-how, gained in the perfect hip hop/grime/rap class, beating prime star Stormzy.

The Brit Awards had been first held in 1977. The occasion is run by British Phonographic Industry, a commerce affiliation that represents the UK music business.

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