Mickey Guyton The 1st Black Woman To Host Academy of Country Music Awards

Country music singer Mickey Guyton made history becoming the first Black woman to host Academy of Country Music Awards‘ on Sunday, with Keith Urban. In September 2020, the 37-year-old singer from Arlington, Texas became the first Black solo female artist to earn a Grammy nomination in a country music category.  At the ceremony, she performed “Black Like Me,” her song that address the discrimination she has experienced as a Black woman. The song was released just eight days after George Floyd was killed.

The door to country music has long been closed to many Black artists, with just a handful of exceptions. Starting in the 1920s, record labels deliberately marketed what was once called “hillbilly music” as the music of the rural White South, historians say. Click Here To Read More.

Source: CNN