Red is Honored With Icon Award on the 2021 BBMAs
Raise your glass to Red!
The 41-year-broken-down singer got the Icon Award on the 2021 Billboard Song Awards on Sunday, Might perhaps well well also 23. The necessary person is one of 10 artists to ever have interaction the glory, joining the firm of Garth Brooks, Cher, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Prince, Stevie Shock, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey.
Sooner than accepting the accolade, offered by Jon Bon Jovi, Red took the stage on the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles to assemble some of her ideal hits. The present-stopping routine marked the musician’s first Billboard Song Awards efficiency in 5 years and, of route, she totally nailed it, singing “All I Know So Some distance,” “So What,” “Who Knew,” “Correct Like a Tablet,” and “Correct Give Me a Motive.” Her 9-year-broken-down daughter Willow Sage Hart even joined her on stage and performed a sequence of acrobatic stunts to their song “Quilt Me In Sunshine.” Red also attended the award present with her 4-year-broken-down son Jameson Moon Hart.
“Willow, nailed it. Jameson, nailing it,” she said during her acceptance speech. “I love what I non-public and I love the people that I gain to non-public it with. And we’re pretty perfect at what we non-public, however it would possibly perhaps per chance per chance per chance now not subject if no person came to ogle us and play with us. So all you guys accessible and all the plot in which thru the sector, thank you for coming out. Thank you for letting us all heal collectively. I will now not wait unless we are able to non-public it again, til we are able to perfect sweat during every other. And perfect here is an absolute honor.”
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Red also recalled how she had a crush on the 59-year-broken-down rocker when she used to be a exiguous one. “I hang you can already know this, however I didn’t come out of my room for per week at the same time as you married Dorthea,” she said earlier on. “I used to be 8. I ripped your poster off my wall. I modified you with Sebastian Bach. And I am very chuffed you found lasting esteem, Jon, however you broke my coronary heart. I snatch this as an apology.”
And before she left the stage, she gave her followers some phrases of wisdom. “Dream broad,” she said, “on account of what if it comes correct?”
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Red can add this trophy to the three Billboard Song Awards she already has on her shelf. In accordance to an announcement shared by dick clark productions and NBC earlier this month, the Icon Award recognizes “worthy artists who maintain finished excellence on the Billboard Charts and maintain made an not likely heed on song itself.” And with 22 years on the charts—during which she’s landed extra than 30 songs on the Sizzling 100 list and eight high 10 albums on the Billboard 200 rankings, Red surely meets the elements.
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“As a exiguous lady, I repeatedly dreamed about being a singer and sharing my esteem of song with the sector,” she said within the press open. “Years later, to catch the Billboard Song Awards Icon Award is spirited to fathom! I in actuality feel so honored to imprint up for the ranks of song idols like Cher, Garth Brooks, Janet Jackson and Stevie Shock. It be a correct ‘pinch me’ moment and I in actuality feel humbled and blessed.”
Ogle Red’s stout efficiency above.
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