If you are yet to check out the powerful music and stunning vocal talents of country music singer Mickey Guyton, you're missing out. Now, the Arlington, Texas, native is making history, as the first Black female solo artist to earn a Grammy nomination in a country category for the upcoming 2021 Grammy Awards. The song for which she's nominated"Black Like Me," is an evocative song about racial inequality in America, and it's hard not to tear up listening to it.
"Little kid in a small town / I did my best just to fit in / Broke my heart on the playground, mm / When they said I was different," Guyton emotes the first verse, backed by subdued keys. "It's a hard life on easy street / Just white painted picket fences far as you can see / If you think we live in the land of the free / You should try to be, oh, Black like me," the chorus preaches, reminding us all of the sad realities of racism.