Beyonce faces ongoing exclusion from Country Music Awards

Beyonce faces ongoing exclusion from Country Music Awards

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Despite winning a major Grammy award for her album Cowboy Carter, Beyonce was snubbed at the recent Academy of Country Music Awards: the pop star, who was also excluded from the Country Music Association nominations last year, didn't even earn a nomination for the Los Angeles organization's awards, where the white music genre, which has recently been considered a white chameleon that has been even older, will instead be in the running for album of the year.

Founded in 1964 to promote West Coast country music, the Academy of Country Music today has a broader and more commercial focus: however, it joined the verdict of last year's Country Music Awards in Nashville, which in September, by 'cancelling' Beyonce, had accused it of excluding the Houston singer because she was black and a woman, CE Report quotes Kosova Press.

Beyonce's father, Mathew Knowles, had expressed himself this way, while country artists like Luke Bryan had argued that, to earn the good graces of the genre's top brass, it's important to actively participate in one's community, something that couldn't be said for Knowles before recording Cowboy Carter.

The album, in which Beyonce traces the country to her ancient African-American roots, was one of the best-selling albums of 2024 and at the Grammys in February gave the Renaissance pop star her first long-awaited award for album of the year, also making her the first black female singer to win a Grammy for a country album.

Cowboy Carter's songs have been finalists at the Recording Academy Awards, including Texas Hold 'Em, Levi's Jeans with Post Malone, 16 Carriages and II MOST WANTED with Miley Cyrus, the latter of which won the Golden Gramophone Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo/Group.

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