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		<title>Dua Lipa Teases New Music At Brit Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 21:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Superstar singer Dua Lipa has teased that she is working on new music. During an interview on the red carpet at the recent Brit Awards, she opened up about the prospect of new material and what fans can expect next from her. The ‘Don’t Start Now’ singer spoke about her plans to celebrate music and [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Superstar singer Dua Lipa has teased that she is working on new music. During an interview on the red carpet at the recent <a href="http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/the-brit-awards-2021-who-won-what/">Brit Awards</a>, she opened up about the prospect of new material and what fans can expect next from her. The ‘<em>Don’t Start Now</em>’ singer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdKKCHx1WA">spoke</a> about her plans to celebrate music and how she aspires to make up for lost time after the year of COVID that changed our live musical landscape.</p>
<p>“<em>Yeah, I think so! This kind of feels like a good way to round it up – especially with performances – but I’ve still got everything crossed that hopefully I’ll be back on the road and still touring this album.</em>” The singer also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdKKCHx1WA">spoke</a> directly concerning when her fans can expect new music. “<em>I’m working on some bits, so possibly there will be something soon.</em>” In the full interview below, the singer speaks further concerning new material and states her excitement to attend the awards and perform and also discusses her contemporaries.</p>
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<p>During her win at this year’s awards, the singer scooped a hat trick of awards. She won Best British album for &#8216;<em><a href="http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/dua-lipa-releases-new-album-future-nostalgia-the-moonlight-edition/">Future Nostalgia</a>&#8216;, </em>best British single for the singer&#8217;s 2020 smash hit &#8216;<em>Physical</em>&#8216; and the Best Female Solo Artist Award for the second time. During her acceptance speech for the Best Female Solo Artist Award, Lipa called for action. She called out the Prime Minister’s contentious one per cent pay raise for nurses, also during her acceptance speech Lipa dedicated her award to Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, who famously battled during her career to ensure that the NHS was fair and promoted equality. She is famed for forming the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice which she formed as a professor of nursing, the centre was established in 1998 to battle the racial inequalities within the nursing industry, Anionwu worked at the centre until her retirement in 2007.</p>
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<p>Within her acceptance speech, Lipa <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RIMPFAT8n4">spoke</a> about Anionwu’s importance and why she decided to dedicate part of her award to the important figure.</p>
<p>“<em>I think this is such an incredible initiative to give another part of your award to someone and I’ve chosen that my Best British Female of the year is Dame Elizabeth Anionwu. She has spent her stellar nursing career fighting racial injustice. She has also spent so much time and is a strong, strong advocate for protecting frontline workers.</em>”</p>
<p>Lipa then turned her attention to the controversial topic and with a rousing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RIMPFAT8n4">speech</a> urged everyone to show their support for the cause.</p>
<p>“<em>[Anionwu] has also said that there’s a massive disparity between gratitude and respect for frontline workers because it’s very good to clap for them but we need to pay them. And so I think what we should do is we should all give a massive massive round of applause and give Boris a message that we all support a fair pay rise for our frontline.</em>”</p>
<p>Judging from this exciting news regarding new material, it would appear that fans can look forward to Lipa toping her record-shattering album ‘<em>Future Nostalgia</em>’. Fans will also get a chance to see the superstar live during her UK tour, which is due to start this September in Liverpool at the M&amp;S Bank Arena.</p>
<p>Dua Lipa UK Tour</p>
<p>10/09/2021 &#8211; M&amp;S Bank Arena &#8211; Liverpool<br />
11/09 &#8211; The SSE Hydro &#8211; Glasgow<br />
13/09 &#8211; Utilita Arena Newcastle &#8211; Newcastle Upon Tyne<br />
15/09 &#8211; Motorpoint Arena Cardiff &#8211; Cardiff<br />
16/09 &#8211; A0 Arena &#8211; Manchester<br />
18/09 &#8211; 3Arena &#8211; Dublin<br />
19/09 &#8211; 3Arena &#8211; Dublin<br />
21/09 &#8211; First Direct Arena &#8211; Leeds<br />
24/09 &#8211; O2 Arena &#8211; London<br />
25/09 &#8211; O2 Arena &#8211; London<br />
27/09 &#8211; Motorpoint Arena Nottingham &#8211; Nottingham<br />
28/09 &#8211; Utilita Arena Birmingham &#8211; Birmingham</p>
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		<title>Griff Wins Brit Award for Rising Star in 2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luiza Dyjasek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brits Rising Star Award, supported by BBC Radio 1, unveiled the Griff as this year&#8217;s winner. Sarah Faith Griffiths aka Griff, has defeated other nominees like Pa Alieu and Rina Sawayama. Commenting her win she said:  &#8220;In my head I&#8217;m still screaming from the phone call when I found out. It&#8217;s honestly such a [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Brits Rising Star Award, supported by BBC Radio 1, unveiled the Griff as this year&#8217;s winner. Sarah Faith Griffiths aka Griff, has defeated other nominees like Pa Alieu and Rina Sawayama. Commenting her win <a href="https://www.brits.co.uk/news/griff-wins-2021-rising-star-award" target="_blank">she said</a>:  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>&#8220;In my head I&#8217;m still screaming from the phone call when I found out. It&#8217;s honestly such a miracle: how on earth did we manage to win a BRIT and break through during a pandemic?&#8221;</em>. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>British pop phenomenon”</em>, as described by <a href="httphttps://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/griff-uk-pop-phenomenon-taking-control-of-their-destiny-2680427//" target="_blank">NME</a> will appear at this year&#8217;s Brits Awards in May. She is among the youngest that ever won the award. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Did someone say story time?? <a href="https://twitter.com/wiffygriffy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wiffygriffy</a> talks the moment she found out she&#8217;d WON the 2021 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BRITs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BRITs</a> Rising Star Award! <a href="https://t.co/jk5fqwPU3V">pic.twitter.com/jk5fqwPU3V</a></p>
<p>— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) <a href="https://twitter.com/BRITs/status/1372859987496685569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">A young pop singer &#8211; songwriter, who grew up in Hertfordshire, has signed with Warner Records back in 2019 and released EP &#8216;<em>The Mirror Talk’</em> the same year. Last summer she was nominated for her first award &#8211; <a href="https://ivorsacademy.com/news/the-ivors-academy-announce-nominees-for-new-rising-star-award-with-apple-music/" target="_blank">Rising Star Ivor Novello Award,</a> which is held every year and open to young musicians in the UK. <em>“</em></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>The new award helps discover, support, and accelerate the careers of the most promising music creators in the UK and Ireland, and demonstrates Apple Music’s continued support of the songwriter and composer community”</em>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Griff’s single from 2020 <em>‘Love is a Compass’</em> peaked at No.42 in the <a href="https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/love-is-a-compass/" target="_blank">Official UK Singles Chart</a>. The song is a soundtrack to Disney’s Christmas Advert and has almost seven million streams on Spotify alone. A month ago the singer released new single <em>‘Black Hole’ a</em>nd new mixtape &#8216;One Foot In Front Of Other&#8217; will come out on 11th June and available to pre-save <a href="https://fpt.fm/app/28023/griff-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other-pre-save?ref=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F" target="_blank">here</a>. Every <a href="https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/uk/artists/griff.html?ref=https%3A//t.co/" target="_blank">pre-order</a> is coming with a early pass access to tickets to Griff&#8217;s upcoming Autumn Tour. The offer however ends 9am on Tuesday 23rd March. </span><br />
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This prestigious Brits trophy was first handed out in 2008 and last year has changed the name from Brits Critics Choice. Since the very beginning, it has opened the career door for many successful future stars, including Adele, Florence + The Machine and last year’s winner Celeste. <a href="https://www.brits.co.uk/news/brits-2021-date-change" target="_blank">The Brit Awards</a> this year had been moved from the usual February date to 11th May and will take place in O2 Arena in London.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full list of Bri Critics Choice/ Rising Star winners is as follows:<br />
</span>2008 &#8211; Adele<br />
2009 &#8211; Florence + The Machine<br />
2010 &#8211; Ellie Goulding<br />
2011 &#8211; Jessie J<br />
2012 &#8211; Emeli Sandé<br />
2013 &#8211; Tom Odell<br />
2014 &#8211; Sam Smith<br />
2015 &#8211; James Bay<br />
2016 &#8211; Jack Garratt<br />
2017 &#8211; Rag ’n’ Bone Man<br />
2018 &#8211; Jorja Smith<br />
2019 &#8211; Sam Fender<br />
2020 &#8211; Celeste<br />
2021 &#8211; Griff</p>
<p>Griff&#8217;s Autumn 2021 Tour includes:<br />
22/10/2021 &#8211;  King Tut&#8217;s Wah Wah Hut &#8211; Glasgow<br />
25/10 &#8211; O2 Academy 3 &#8211; Birmingham<br />
27/10 &#8211; Heaven &#8211; London</p>
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