Grammy Successes for the BRIT School

This week the 68th Annual Grammy Awards have taken place in Los Angeles, with remarkable successes for the BRIT School.

Successful artists were:

  1. Olivia Dean – Won Best New Artist at the 2026 Grammy Awards; she is a former BRIT School student.
  2. Lola Young – Won Best Pop Solo Performance at the 2026 Grammy Awards; also BRIT School-educated.
  3. FKA twigs – Won Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards and briefly attended the BRIT School.
  4. RAYE – Received the Harry Belafonte Award for Social Change (a Grammy category) at the 2026 awards; she attended the BRIT School.

This is a major coup for the BRIT School where the Musicians’ Company is establishing a relationship to support a declared intention to promote excellence in all genres of music.

This is a remarkable achievement and evidence of the BRIT Schools’ importance on the international stage with a plan to create a pipeline of well-prepared young talent. The relationship the company enjoys with the BRIT School was originally established by Popular Music Committee and is now maintained by Lucy Beacon, Chairman of that committee.

For additional information, past Grammy award winners associated with the Musicians’ Company are: Dame Cleo Laine who won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female for her live album Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert; Antonio Pappano who has also indirectly won Grammy Awards, notably for Best Opera Recording, recognising his work as a conductor in major operatic recordings; and Annie Lennox, who has won multiple Grammys—eight in total—both as a solo artist and as a member of Eurythmics, across categories like pop performance and vocal excellence. Interestingly, Queen (Brian May) never won a Grammy in a competitive sense, but was recognised with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Furthermore, Bohemian Rhapsody has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which recognises recordings of enduring historical importance (but this is an honour, not a competitive Grammy).

The Master will accompany Lucy Beacon for Sounds Global, a celebration of music from around the world, on 11th February at the BRIT School.

Published 9 February 2026