Blue Ivy follows in parents’ footsteps
NEW YORK — At just 7 years old, Blue Ivy Carter is an award-winning songwriter.
Jay-Z and Beyonce’s daughter won the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award at Sunday’s Soul Train Awards for co-writing her mom’s hit “Brown Skin Girl,” a song celebrating dark-skinned women. Blue Ivy gives a vocal performance that opens and closes the song, which also features Wizkid and Saint Jhn.
The Carters weren’t at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas to accept the honor named after the legendary Motown songwriting duo Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Ivy Carter shares the win with Beyonce, Jay-Z, St. Jhn and several other co-writers.
This week could get even better for Blue Ivy: Grammy nominations will be revealed Wednesday, and “Brown Skin Girl” could earn the young star her first Grammy nomination (Beyonce has won 23 Grammys and Jay-Z has 22).
“Brown Skin Girl” — which features Beyonce namedropping Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland and singing lyrics like, “I love everything about you, from your nappy curls to every single curve” — was also nominated for best collaboration at the Soul Train Awards.
Chris Brown and Drake’s “No Guidance” — which has spent the last five months, and counting, in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart — was the big winner, picking up song of the year, best dance performance and best collaboration.
Lizzo won album/mixtape of the year for “Cuz I Love You” and video of the year for “Juice.”