On Thursday, information broke that music famous person Mary J. Blige, 51, will obtain the Billboard Icon award throughout the 2022 Billboard Music Awards airing Sunday, Might 15, in accordance to Folks.
The award present shall be broadcast reside from the MGM Grand Area in Las Vegas, Billboard reviews.
In response to Billboard, the recipients of the Icon Award are artists who created a excessive caliber of labor inside the music business and have ranked excessive on the Billboard charts.
Blige is the eleventh singer to have been granted the Icon Award. She follows Neil Diamond, Stevie Marvel, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Cher, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks, and P!NK, reviews Billboard.
It’s an honor to obtain the @billboard Icon Award and carry out on this 12 months’s @BBMAs! Don’t miss the #BBMAs – Sunday, Might 15 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on @NBC. #IconMJB #GoodMorningGorgeous pic.twitter.com/MC2yZRKsRs
— Mary J. Blige (@maryjblige) April 14, 2022
“My profession has been such an unimaginable and sudden journey that has included many turns into avenues I by no means might have imagined like appearing, producing, launching companies and now even my very own music pageant,” Blige mentioned.
“By means of all of it, I at all times a method or one other gravitated again to my old flame, music. To be acknowledged on this manner at this second, with the Icon Award on the Billboard Music Awards, is an unimaginable honor and one which I’m actually humbled by,” mentioned the 411 hip-hop soul vocalist of the distinction.
Blige has loved a critically-acclaimed profession that has garnered her 11 Billboard Music Awards, one for album of the 12 months, and she or he picked up 9 trophies for the feminine R&B/hip-hop artist of the 12 months and feminine Scorching 100 artist, the New York Publish reviews.
Blige is well-deserving of the icon award and title. In February of this 12 months, she launched her 14th album Good Morning Attractive and gave a stunning efficiency on the 2022 Tremendous Bowl LVI Halftime Present alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar. Blige additionally stars in Starz’s “Energy E book II: Ghost” sequence, in response to the Publish.
