{"id":117000,"date":"2024-02-03T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/03\/mariah-carey-dedicates-award-to-anyone-whos-ever-felt-marginalized\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T00:02:06","slug":"mariah-carey-dedicates-award-to-anyone-whos-ever-felt-marginalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/03\/mariah-carey-dedicates-award-to-anyone-whos-ever-felt-marginalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey dedicates award to anyone who&#8217;s ever felt &#8220;marginalized&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-02\/Getty_MariahCareyAward_020224.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Five-time Grammy winner <strong>Mariah Carey<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C22kPjDtmCo\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">honored with<\/a> the Recording Academy&#8217;s Global Impact Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 1. During her speech, Mariah addressed her own struggles in the music industry, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lenny-kravitz-mariah-carey-stevie-wonder-grammys-black-music-collective-dinner-1234959575\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rolling Stone.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The award was presented by the Black Music Collective. Mariah, who was given her award by none other than <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong>, noted that the awards ceremony was taking place on the first day of Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>When I first started in the music business, I was often told to \u2018conform\u2019 to certain expectations. I was not encouraged to focus on my love for Black music,\u201d she told the crowd, according to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. She then detailed her determination to create music that was, as she put it, &#8220;from my heart.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She added, &#8220;I accept this award on behalf of every person who has ever felt silenced or marginalized. Who has ever been told their voice doesn\u2019t matter. Your truth matters.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will continued to pave the way together for a future where authenticity is celebrated, diversity is embraced, and music has the power to change the word,&#8221; she concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Others who paid tribute to Mariah during the ceremony included <strong>Babyface<\/strong>, <strong>Tori Kelly<\/strong>,<strong> Yolanda Adams<\/strong> and <strong>Busta Rhymes<\/strong>. She wrote on Instagram, &#8220;<span>This celebration was so powerful and beautiful. I think I cried about 3 times &#8230; you are all so incredibly talented and made last night so special for me.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images Five-time Grammy winner Mariah Carey was honored with the Recording Academy&#8217;s Global Impact Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 1. During her speech, Mariah addressed her own struggles in the music industry, according to Rolling Stone. The award was presented by the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/03\/mariah-carey-dedicates-award-to-anyone-whos-ever-felt-marginalized\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":117001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427,428,429],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}