Sting, James, Harry Styles and Raye were among the winners at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards with Amazon Music. The former Police frontman performed a special rendition of his song ‘Message in a Bottle’ at the ceremony held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London on Thursday (18.
05. 23) as he was honoured with the prestigious Fellowship of The Ivors Academy, joining the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and Kate Bush in receiving the accolade Raye performed ‘Escapism’, and she and her co-writers 070 Shake and Mike Sabath won the award for Best Contemporary Song for the track.
An emotional Raye was reduced to tears as she was handed her gong, and she used her acceptance speech to urge major record labels to do more to help songwriters earn more for their work.
She said: “I’ve really fought really hard [for this]… I started my songwriting career when I was 14 years old after school at BRITs School… I was like I just need to be the best I can be.
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