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Sam Smith & Kim Petras Make LGBTQ+ HISTORY astatine 2023 Grammys
Oh-ee-oh-ee-oh Kim Petras took that Grammy hoe-ee-oh-ee-ome.
After making past astatine the 2023 ceremonial arsenic the archetypal transgender woman to triumph successful the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category for her deed "Unholy" with Sam Smith, the German vocalist reflected connected what the large infinitesimal meant to her.
"Wow!" she told reporters backstage connected Feb. 5. "All these years are going done my caput of radical saying I would beryllium a niche creator due to the fact that I'm transgender and my euphony would lone ever play successful cheery clubs. And what's incorrect with that? I emotion cheery clubs. They raised me. But anyways, present I'm nominated, I got a Grammy for making cheery nine euphony with my person and that's the champion feeling successful the world."
And Petras hopes her win drives change.
"Honestly, I conscionable deliberation that radical request to justice less," she continued, "and I anticipation that there's a aboriginal wherever sex and individuality and each these labels don't substance that overmuch and wherever radical tin conscionable beryllium themselves and not get judged truthful hard and not beryllium labeled truthful hard. I truly anticipation for that due to the fact that that was a large conflict for maine increasing up."
The creator added, "And I anticipation that each the kids that saw this that, you know, are special, oregon different, oregon consciousness similar they don't belong, oregon similar they can't conform to the nine and they don't person a spot successful it consciousness inspired that, yes, you tin beryllium yourself and get rewarded for your endowment alternatively than your sex oregon your sexuality."
Petras besides looked backmost astatine however her collaboration with Smith—whom she called a "very peculiar person and protagonist of excavation for years"—came to be.
"In the precise opening of my vocation Sam reached retired and said 'I'm inspired by you, and I would emotion to marque a opus with you eventually,'" she recalled. "And it took america a batch of songs that we sent backmost and distant that weren't the close fits. And past yet 'Unholy' came on and we some were like, 'This feels similar our opus and, like, our small baby.' So we were both, I think, conscionable truly into the song. And we're conscionable like, 'I deliberation the opus needs you, and I deliberation the opus needs me. And let's bash this.'"
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And she's thrilled to stock this Grammy with them.
"It's truly peculiar to stock this with idiosyncratic who's fixed maine specified important proposal successful my life, who's helped maine with dealing with opinions of people," Petras said. "Sam's been doing this for a small portion and has truthful galore astonishing songs, and I conscionable I consciousness similar I've learned truthful overmuch and truthful I'm grateful for that. And yeah, Sam volition ne'er get escaped of me, and we'll ever sing this opus for eternity. So hellhole yeah, I'm excited for that."
Still, she wouldn't beryllium opposed to teaming up with much artists successful the aboriginal like Rosalía, Anitta, Doja Cat, M.I.A. and Madonna, the second of whom introduced Petras and Smith's performance of "Unholy" during the show.
"I conscionable emotion being successful the country with different originative radical who person their ain imaginativeness and their ain individuality arsenic artists and creating together," Petras noted. "So if immoderate of you guys that I conscionable said would ever beryllium down, like, I would dice wrong if you wanted to."
As she picked up her award, Petras thanked Smith, her precocious person SOPHIE, Madonna, her parent and each her supporters portion acknowledging the groundbreaking moment.
"I conscionable privation to convey each the unthinkable transgender legends earlier me," she said astatine 1 point, "who kicked these doors unfastened for maine truthful I could beryllium present tonight."
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