Blue Ivy Carter Is Making History As The Youngest Person To Win A Major Music Award
Blue Ivy is following mom Queen Bey's footsteps.
Blue Ivy Carter is only 8 years old but she's already accomplished more than I have in 20-something years.
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On Saturday night, Blue Ivy won her first award at the 51st NAACP Image Awards in the category of Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration for "Brown Skin Girl," her collaboration with Beyoncé, SAINt JHN and WizKiD off the 2019 Lion King soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift.
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Proud grandma Tina Knowles Lawson shared her excitement over her grandchild's award on Instagram.
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She wrote, "Congratulations BLUE IVY on your NAACP award last night for singing and writing on 'Brown Skin Girl' from the Album The Gift. 👏🏾👏🏾 The youngest artist to win a major award👏🏾👏🏾Grandma is soo proud of you❤️❤️❤️ 8 years old!!!!🙏🏾❤️ You are giving all the beautiful little brown girls a voice ❤️."
That's right – Blue Ivy is the youngest person to win a major award!
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For reference, she's two years younger than the youngest Oscar winner, who was Tatum O'Neal at 10 years old.
It's absolutely wild that Blue Ivy's music career is just beginning and she's already won an award. But when your mom is Beyoncé, you already know you're destined for greatness.
