Celebrating GRAMMY Nominee: Muni Long
Festival Season
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1h 1m
As part of the GRAMMY Museum’s celebration of GRAMMY Week, we were thrilled to welcome GRAMMY Winner Muni Long for an intimate conversation and special performance, in celebration of her three GRAMMY nominations this year for Best New Artist, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Performance.
The most streamed and buzzworthy artist in R&B today, Muni Long has exploded since the success of her song “Hrs and Hrs.” In addition to netting over 250 million streams and peaking at #1 at Urban & Rhythmic radio, the track rose to Top 5 at Apple Music, and hit #17 on the Billboard Hot 100. She went on to release her full-length album Public Displays of Affection: The Album which features hits singles “Time Machine,” “Pain,” “Another” and more. Tastemakers are still astonished over Muni’s triumphant performance of ""Hrs and Hrs” at the 2022 BET Awards as well as opening the show for the BET Soul Train Awards where she took home highly coveted Ashford & Simpson Songwriters Award.
Underscoring her BET & Soul Train Awards success, Muni was MTV’s featured Global PUSH Artist for the month of June and was named to iHeart Radio’s ‘On The Verge’ program; BET Amplified, YouTube’s Artist On The Rise, Spotify Frequency Artist, Snapchat Artist to Watch, and Amazon Breakthrough Artist of the Month. Muni went on to perform “Hrs And Hrs,” and “Time Machine,” on NBC’s The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
Muni was embedded in GRAMMY history at the first-ever Black Music Collective ceremony the night before the awards in April 2022. She joined a stellar lineup of performers – Summer Walker, Chloe Bailey, Cordae, and Jimmie Allen – as they honored groundbreaking female rapper MC Lyte and singer-songwriter John Legend. Muni was nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY Award for her work on H.E.R.’s Back of My Mind album (the track entitled “Process”).
Before her soulful, conversational songwriting and powerful vocals caught fire around the world with “Hrs and Hrs,” Muni Long spent a decade as one of the best-kept behind-the-curtain secret weapons in the industry. Her journey as a much-in-demand songwriter, co-mingling R&B, rap, and pop, resulted in a diverse catalog of hits accumulated by Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Chris Brown, Ariana Grande, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson, and Selena Gomez, to name a few.
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