.Santandave1 won the Ivor Novello Award for best contemporary song for “Black.”
The awards were originally slated to be presented in May, but were postponed due to COVID-19.
, the acclaimed British rapper, singer and songwriter, continued his winning streak at awards shows by taking the Ivor Novello Award for best contemporary song for “Black.” Dave co-wrote the song, one of the highlights of his debut album,This year’s winners of the Ivors, as the awards are commonly known, were announced on The Matt Wilkinson Show on Apple Music 1 Radio on Wednesday . The awards were originally slated to be presented in May, but were postponed due to COVID-19.
The Ivor judges described “Black” as “important, eloquent and a song that not only empowers, but is borderless in its musicality.”won a Brit Award as British album of the year, a Mercury Prize for best album and an AIM Award for best independent album., deputy editor Andrew Unterberger singled out “the stark-but-powerful rendition of the ‘Black is beautiful’ anthem” as one of the show’s highlights.
This is the second time that Dave, 22, has won an Ivor for best contemporary song. He won two ago for “Question Time,” a song from his 2017 EP
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