Chappell Roan won the prize for the best long -awaited artist at the Grammys 2025, and she used her victory to highlight the treatment of developing artists in the music industry.
Victoria Monet, winner of the category in 2024, returned to the Grammy scene to announce Roan as the winner of this year. The “hot to go!” The singer-songwriter thanked her nominated colleagues “whose music made me spend last year,” she said. Roan brought a notebook on stage to say remarks that she said that she always said to herself if she should find herself in this position.
“I said to myself that if I had ever won a Grammy, and that I assisted myself here in front of the most powerful people of music, I would ask that the labels and the industry benefiting from millions of dollars of artists would offer a Habitable salary in health care, especially to developing artists, ”said Roan, has met with the crowd.
Roan then explained that she had been signed as a minor and when she has already been abandoned from her label, she had no work experience or health care, saying that she had trouble trying to find A job in the pandemic. “It was so devastating to feel so attached to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and so dehumanized not to have help,” she said.
“The labels, we have you, but you have us?” Asked Roan, ending his acceptance speech. It was greeted by the applause of the crowd. The nominated Sabrina Carpenter looked tearful when the camera turned to her after Roan’s speech.
The tight race for the best new artist was full of artists from some of the greatest successes of the year, notably Benson Boone, Carpenter, Doechii, Khruangbin, Raye, Roan, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims. The artists, less Carpenter, Roan and Khruangbin, made a melody before the award ceremony. Carpenter and Roan, both for the biggest prix of the evening, album of the year, occurred separately during the ceremony. The pre-re-reported performances presented musical diversity in the nominated class this year.
Roan brought the Grammys crowd to the “Pink Pony Club” with its performance. On the theme with the night, Roan said of his love of Los Angeles, “” Pink Pony Club “is my love letter to the I love this city. Gave me the courage to be myself because ultimately this is where I feel the most free. »»
The Grammy Awards 2025, organized by Trevor Noah, broadcast live on Sunday from the crypto.com Arena de Los Angeles. Find the full list of winners here and consult all the arrivals of a red carpet here.
Read Roan’s speech in its entirety, below.
Hello, thank you to my nominated colleagues whose music made me pass this year. Brat was the best night in my life this year. My hat will fall. It’ll be OK. (Laughs). Thank you to everyone who listened to having me here today and Dan (Dan Nigro)) And Island Records, Records fun, my friends and my family, and especially my Papa Chappell, which I named myself.
I told myself that if I had ever won a Grammy, and that I was able to stand here in front of the most powerful people of music, I would ask that the industry labels enjoying millions of dollars of artists would offer living wages and health care, especially to developing artists. Because I was signed so young … I was signed in a minor, and when I was abandoned, I had no work experience with my credit, and like most people, I had Dorting to find a job in the pandemic and I could not afford health insurance.
It was so devastating to feel so attached to my art and to feel so betrayed by the system and so dehumanized not to have help. And if my label had priority to the health of artists, I could have been given to the care of a company to which I gave everything. Thus, disk labels must treat their artists as precious employees with salary and health insurance and health protection.
Labels, we have you, but you have us?
