Harry Styles will carry out on the 2023 BRIT Awards subsequent month.
BRIT Awards organisers introduced Styles’ inclusion to the efficiency line-up in a single day, with the singer becoming a member of a invoice that additionally consists of FLO, Sam Smith and Kim Petras (performing their collaboration ‘Unholy’ collectively), and Wet Leg.
The look will mark the second time Styles has carried out on the BRITs as a solo artist, after enjoying his ‘Fine Line’ minimize ‘Falling’ on the 2020 awards. Styles additionally carried out on the 2013 awards as a member of One Direction, the place the group delivered their rendition of Blondie‘s ‘One Way or Another’ (which additionally interpolates the Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’).
.@Harry_Styles is coming dwelling to The BRITs stage ????
Don’t miss it on Saturday 11 February on ITV (UK) and https://t.co/QjEmDoO5Pu (International) #BRITs pic.twitter.com/BnU3PLPBTk
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) January 17, 2023
Styles – together with Wet Leg – has the most nominations at this yr’s BRIT Awards with 4, together with British Album of the Year (for final yr’s ‘Harry’s House’) and Song of the Year (for lead single ‘As It Was’).
The different two classes Styles is nominated in have sparked controversy for the BRITs since their announcement earlier this month. All of this yr’s Artist of the Year nominees are male – with Central Cee, Fred Again.., George Ezra and Stormzy nominated alongside Styles – prompting backlash.
“So the Brits introduced an Artist of the Year category as a gender-neutral replacement for Best Male and Best Female Artist category – but this year all five nominees are blokes,” musician Tim Burgess tweeted this month. “One step forward, three steps back.”
Styles can be nominated within the Best Pop/R&B Act alongside Cat Burns, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith. Multiple artists have hit out at an absence of R&B illustration within the class, together with Mahalia.
“I’m sorry but UK R&B right now is THRIVING,” the singer tweeted. “Forget putting us in this category. Give us our own!!!!! How many times do we have to scream at you?” She added: “Winning awards isn’t the reason why we make and release music. We do this shit out of love. But, at this point, it’s nothing short of disrespectful.”
This yr’s BRIT Awards ceremony will happen on the O2 Arena in London on February 11, hosted by comic Mo Gilligan.