Mary J. Blige Will Receive The Icon Award at 2022 Billboard Music Awards: “An Incredible Honor”
The award show will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Billboard reports.
According to Billboard, the recipients of the Icon Award are artists who created a high caliber of work within the music industry and have ranked high on the Billboard charts.
“My career has been such an incredible and unexpected journey that has included many turns into avenues I never could have imagined like acting, producing, launching businesses and now even my own music festival,” Blige said.
“Through it all, I always one way or another gravitated back to my first love, music. To be recognized in this way at this moment, with the Icon Award at the Billboard Music Awards, is an incredible honor and one that I am truly humbled by,” said the 411 hip-hop soul vocalist of the honor.
Blige has enjoyed a critically-acclaimed career. Garnering her 11 Billboard Music Awards. One for album of the year, and she picked up nine trophies for the female R&B/hip-hop artist of the year and female Hot 100 artist, the New York Post reports.
Blige is well-deserving of the icon award and title. In February, she released her 14th album Good Morning Gorgeous. Giving a dazzling performance at the 2022 Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar. Blige also stars in Starz’s Power Book ll: Ghost” series, according to the Post.
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