Read Chappell Roan’s full 2025 Grammys speech

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Chappell Roan took home Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammy awards show on Sunday and used her speech to advocate for something important: healthcare and living wages for musicians.

Reading from a notebook on stage, the singer called out record labels and "the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists" and shared her own experience losing healthcare after getting dropped from her label right before the pandemic. "It was so devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system, and so dehumanized to not have health insurance.

And if my label would have prioritized artist health, I could've been provided care by a company I was giving everything to." Read Next: The 50 best songs of 2024 In 2020, Chappell Roan was dropped from her previous label Atlantic Records.

While independent, she released some of her biggest songs "Pink Pony Club," "My Kink is Karma," "Femininomenon," through producer Dan Nigro's imprint Amusement Records.