Grammys 2025: Chappell Roan Reveals Meaning Behind Her Stage Name

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Sabrina Carpenter and More Stars React to Their 2025 Grammy Nominations

Chappell Roan is starting a Grammys collection.

After all, she was named Best New Artist astatine the 2025 ceremony, beating retired chap nominees Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey, Doechii, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims, Raye and Khruangbin. (Click present for a implicit database of winners.)

While taking the signifier astatine Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena for her acceptance speech, the "Pink Pony Club" vocalist told the assemblage astatine the Trevor Noah-hosted ceremonial the meaning down her stage.

"Thank you to my chap nominees, whose euphony got maine done this past year," Chappell (real sanction Kayleigh Amstutz) began, earlier giving shoutouts to "my friends and my family, and—above all—my poppa Chappell, who I named myself after."

Indeed, Chappell's signifier sanction is simply a tribute to her precocious gramps Dennis K. Chappell, who died successful 2016 aft a conflict with encephalon cancer. The 2nd portion of the newly-crowned Grammy winner's onstage persona was inspired by the Curley Fletcher song "The Strawberry Roan," a favourite of the household patriarch.

But triumph oregon lose, it's been rather the twelvemonth for each the nominees successful the Best New Artist category. Take Chappell, who was much than conscionable fortunate erstwhile her azygous "Good Luck, Babe!" landed successful the apical spot of Rolling Stone, NME and The Guardian's Best Songs of 2024 lists.

She besides took location the Top New Artist prize astatine the 2024 Billboard Music Awards and the Best New Artist grant astatine the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

Likewise, Sabrina won large during past year's MTV VMAs, taking nabbing the Song of the Year grant for her infectious bop "Espresso." She besides kicked disconnected her hugely fashionable Short n' Sweet Tour, which she'll resume adjacent period successful Europe.

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And for Shaboozey, helium landed not one, but 2 collaborations connected Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter. As helium precocious told E! News, "Working with her, I've learned truthful much."

Speaking of powerhouse collabs, Doechii teamed up with Katy Perry connected the popular superstar's 143 track "I'm His, He's Mine."

"It's not hard for maine to genre bend—I'm a chameleon erstwhile it comes to music," she told Buzzfeed successful October. "If it's a opus that resonates me, I conscionable person to people laic it down. So I person nary occupation being successful that space."

As for the remainder of the 2025 Grammys Best New Artist nominees? Read on.

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Sabrina Carpenter

A decennary aft playing Maya on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World, Sabrina is now working late, ’cause she’s a singer. With hits similar “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” nether her belt, the 25-year-old solidified herself arsenic a bona fide popular princess with her 2024 album Short n’ Sweet.

Before embarking connected her planetary circuit of the aforesaid name, she spent a full batch of clip successful the institution of popular royalty arsenic the opening enactment for Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour. Now, she’s a six-time Grammy nominee arsenic she’s besides up for Record of the Year and Album of the Year

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Chappell Roan

Good luck, babe! The breakout synth-pop artist—whose commencement sanction is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz—is up for six Grammys for her breakthrough 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which is simply a motion to her upbringing successful Willard, Missouri.

Indeed, the past twelvemonth has marked rather a whirlwind travel for the artist, whose latest medium is afloat of hits like  “HOT TO GO!” and “Casual.” But the opus that has everyone warring the impulse to get up and creation is the 26-year-old’s 2024 azygous “Good Luck, Babe!"

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Shaboozey

The "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" singer is different creator who has had rather the year—in the state abstraction and beyond. For starters, his deed single—an interpolation of J-Kwon’s 2004 deed has gone certified platinum, and became a staple connected the vigor airwaves.

And past Shaboozey—born Collins Obinna Chibueze with his signifier sanction borrowing from a mispronunciation of his past name—collaborated with Beyoncé on 2 songs for her Cowboy Carter album: "SPAGHETTII" and "SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN." 

Known for bridging the spread betwixt state euphony and hip-hop, this Virginia autochthonal is besides nominated for Song of the Year and Best Melodic Rap Performance.  

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Benson Boone

While helium wasn’t named the adjacent American Idol successful 2021, the play 19 alum has made a sanction for himself conscionable the same. The 21-year-old made waves with ballads “In the Stars” and “Ghost Town.” But it was his azygous “Beautiful Things”—which became a much-used dependable connected TikTok—that changeable to the apical of the charts this twelvemonth and landed him a deserved spot successful this category.

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Teddy Swims

It’s been 5 years since the 32-year-old dropped a screen of Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” connected Spotify. Now, Teddy (real name Jaten Collin Dimsdale) is taking disconnected for his ain hits, including “Lose Control,” “The Door” and “Hammer to the Heart,” each connected his 2023 album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1). 

The artist, who hails from Atlanta, blends genres of R&B, soul, state and popular into his music.

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Raye

Go up and just hold those Oscar winning tears, due to the fact that the British euphony sensation is Grammy-bound. The R&B and jazz singer took the euphony satellite by tempest with the merchandise of her 2022 azygous “Escapism,” which went mega-viral connected TikTok and ended up connected her 2023 album My 21st Century Blues alongside “Oscar Winning Tears” and “Worth it.”

In the fewer abbreviated years following, Hollywood has hopped on-board the Raye bandwagon. For Halloween 2024, vocalist Christina Aguilera dressed up arsenic the performer, sporting a bouncy bob and bejeweled gown. In summation to Best New Artist, the arrogant South London-native is besides nominated for Songwriter of the Year.

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Doechii

Though her 2020 opus "Yucky Blucky Fruitcake" made for an instant deed online, that was acold from the lone azygous that helped the 26-year-old summation a monolithic fanbase. With hits similar “Crazy,” “Persuasive" and “What It Is,” the Tampa autochthonal has proven herself arsenic a unit to beryllium reckoned with—as evidenced by her 2025 Grammy information for Best New Artist.

In fact, with the merchandise of her medium Alligator Bites Never Heal, the timing was cleanable for Grammy submissions, confirming her introduction to Rolling Stone, with an ecstatic: “Yes. Yes, yes, yes.”

“Curating it, I went successful with the volition of context,” she told the work successful September. “That was a large happening for me. Sometimes projects tin consciousness agelong erstwhile there’s nary discourse to what you’re talking about. There’s nary communicative oregon nary narration to physique on. I felt similar it was indispensable for maine to archer my communicative successful item and successful galore antithetic ways, done galore antithetic beats. And it was important for america to spell successful chronological bid of what has happened to me, however that has made maine feel, however I overcame it, and wherever I americium now.”

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Khruangbin

The philharmonic trio from Houston, Texas, made waves aft gathering and performing unneurotic successful 2004. But it would beryllium their 2015 debut medium The Universe Smiles Upon You released by the group—comprised of guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson—that would instrumentality the euphony satellite by storm.

But it’s the band’s latest medium A La Sala that has them getting backmost to “a simpler and much heartfelt place.”

“We felt similar what we ended up making was an medium that was truly intimate and idiosyncratic betwixt the 3 of us,” Lee told Elle successful April. We’re similar a household and a la sala’ was thing that I utilized to accidental to my ain household erstwhile I was 3 oregon 4 years aged to get everybody to spell to the surviving country and beryllium together. I would conscionable tally astir the location and shriek it. So, this felt similar that sentiment.”

Don't miss the 2025 Grammy Awards tonight, Feb. 2, astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected CBS.

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