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Pink lived up to her newly-minted Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards with a touching aerial performance to her song Cover Me in Sunshine in tandem with her 9-year-old daughter, Willow Sage Hart.
The bada award recipient picked the song a single she recorded with Willow to kick off an eight-minute medley worthy of the Philadelphia native. The high-flying stunt was par for the course for the 41-year-old Pink, who is known for mind-blowing acrobatics during concerts.
After the segment, she proclaimed that her offspring nailed it. Like mother, like daughter.
The Billboard Music Awards is an awards show that I usually record and fast forward through most of and just watch the good parts . Last night had me watching more of the show that I do normally.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis along with Prince produced song Optimistic . This is a song that even 30 years later, still has the sound of now . It s something that is still very relatable and is talking about perseverance in times that are very uncertain.
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If you watched any of the show last night, and saw this performance, you saw it starting with showing a lot of Paisley Park. The camera was heading down the hallways and the studios that Prince had at his home studio. A studio that doubled as his home and his recording studio/rehearsal area. Nothing like making sure that you have everything you need in one place without having to worry about booking any time and working around other people s schedules.
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Before receiving the Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, the legendary Pink stole the show with an acrobatic performance of Cover Me In Sunshine alongside nine-year-old daughter Willow Sage.
The 41-year-old singer released Cover Me In Sunshine in mid-February, a duet with her daughter Willow, that kicked off a medley of memorable Pink songs.
The performance featured mother and daughter showing off their acrobatic skills as they clung to rope swings and twirled high above the ground while delivering a memorable performance before she was presented with the Icon Award from one of the singer s first crushes, Jon Bon Jovi.
The Weeknd might have won Top Artist of the Year along with 9 other awards at the 2021 Billboard Awards, but a few of our faves were the big winners for these head-to-toe looks.
In a hybrid ceremony similar to the Grammys and Academy Awards, the Billboard Awards consisted of virtual and live performances, with masked audiences outside of the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
From performers Doja Cat, Sza, H.E.R, Alicia Keys to presenters Gabrielle Union, Cynthia Erivo and Tina Knowles Lawson, Black girl magic was in full swing on Sunday. A look at the stars who shined on the carpet and during the show.
Top finalist The Weeknd took home the most trophies of the night with ten – including Top Artist and Top Hot 100 Artist – bringing his career total to 19.