Mahalia

The decorated songstress' humble origins began in North Carolina where she was influenced by her musical family and the gospel music of artists like Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke.

Creamy and atmospheric, with a keen sense of color and light, it arranges performances from four days into a single, morning-to-night concert, beginning with Thelonious Monk and ending with Mahalia Jackson.

Others, like Mahalia and Ella Mai, have focused on breaking the US, where the genre has deeper roots.

In 1963, she joined the March on Washington and was close enough to Martin Luther King, Jr. as he spoke that she saw gospel singer Mahalia Jackson urge him, “Tell him about the dream, Martin,” leading him to ad lib his most famous speech.

But Raye's win for Best R&B Act prompted singer Mahalia, who successfully called on the Brits to give R&B its own category, to praise her on X.