Little Simz has won the 2022 Mercury Prize for her album ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’.The London rapper was favourite to take the prize and beat off competition from fellow favourites Self Esteem and Wet Leg at a live ceremony at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith tonight (October 18).Accepting the trophy, she said: “Wow, I’m very, very overwhelmed.
I’m very grateful, glory to God. God thank you so much.”She also paid tribute to producer Inflo who worked on the album and said there were times in the studio when “I didn’t know if I was gonna finish this record.
I was feeling all the emotions and really going through it and he [producer Inflo] stuck by me and pushed me to deliver this album for you guys.”The rapper earlier performed a live rendition of ‘How Did You Get Here’ and performed it for a second time after accepting the award.Along with Self Esteem’s ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ and Wet Leg’s self-titled debut album, other nominees on the night included Sam Fender‘s ‘Seventeen Going Under’, Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’, Kojey Radical‘s ‘Reason To Smile’, Gwenno‘s ‘Tresor’, Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’, Nova Twins’ ‘Supernova’, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler‘s ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’, Joy Crookes‘ ‘Skin’ and Fergus McCreadie‘s ‘Forest Floor’.The judging panel said: “In a year that has, to put it mildly, presented rather a lot of challenges, British and Irish music has thrived more than ever.
When it came down to it, the judges were so impressed by ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ by Little Simz that everyone could get behind it.
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