Mickey Guyton becomes first Black female country artist to perform on Grammy Awards
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
March 14, 2021
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LOS ANGELES – Mickey Guyton became the first Black female country artist to perform on music s highest-profile awards show when she sang her Black Like Me at the 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday. It s a hard life on Easy Street / Just white-painted picket fences far as you can see, she sang, backed by a churchy choir, in the midtempo cut built on stately piano and yearning steel guitar, If you think we live in the land of the free / You should try to be Black like me.
The country superstar tells
Billboard: “I absolutely love this song! ‘Down To One’ has a melody that just locked me in the first time I heard it. I know a lot of artists feel this way, but I’m definitely looking forward to doing this one live.”
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