Rina Sawayama has said that spearheading the movement to change eligibility rules for the Brit Awards and Mercury Prize is “the proudest moment of her career”.The singer has campaigned heavily to have the rules changed for British solo artists at awards events and contacted the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).Then this week saw Sawayama – who was born in Japan but has lived in the UK for 26 years and has indefinite leave to remain in the country – reveal that a grassroots campaign led to the BPI agreeing to change the rules for the awards, allowing artists without British citizenship to be eligible for the awards if they’ve resided in the country for five years or more.“This is the UK I know, and the UK I grew up with – one of.
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