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		</div><p>Emeli Sande was the only British musician from a diverse background to be recognised with an accolade at this year’s Brit Awards, despite a surge in the number of non-white nominees.</p>
<p>Grime artists Skepta and Kano led the charge with nominations but left empty-handed after they were beaten in two categories by the late David Bowie.</p>
<p>Organisers increased diversity among the voting academy in an effort to tackle last year’s “Brits So White” protests, which saw a number of high-profile, successful musicians left out.</p>
<p>The major review led to a surge in the representation of Black, Asian or ethnic minority musicians shortlisted in categories such as British Male Solo Artist, Album Of The Year, and British Breakthrough Artist.</p>
<p>Despite the reforms, the only British winner from a non-white background at Wednesday night’s ceremony was Scottish singer Emeli who collected her second British Female Solo Artist prize and her third Brit overall.<br />
Stormzy, who performed at the show alongside Ed Sheeran a year after complaining about a lack of representation of black musicians, lost to Rag’N&#8217;Bone Man in the Breakthrough Artist category.</p>
<figure id="attachment_107660" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-107660" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_0993.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_0993.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="359" class="size-full wp-image-107660" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-107660" class="wp-caption-text">Ed Sheeran and Stormzy</figcaption></figure>
<p>The issue had earlier been highlighted at the 2015 awards when Kanye West invited on stage a group of British grime MCs.</p>
<p>Ahead of the event at London’s O2 Arena, artists from across genres praised organisers for taking action over the issue.</p>
<p>Biffy Clyro’s frontman Simon Neil said “it’s about time” as he likened grime’s breakthrough to that of the punk movement of the 1970s.</p>
<p>Simon added: “Britain is so diverse musically, never mind just culturally.</p>
<p>“It’s so important to represent, and if we don’t we’re doing ourselves a disservice, so it’s about time.”<br />
Rapper Wiley, who was not nominated for an award, praised Stormzy and Skepta for “pushing barriers”.</p>
<p>Bowie’s win in the British Male Solo Artist category means it has now been eight years since a BAME musician won the award.</p>
<p>Just three non-white winners have prevailed in the category in Brits 40-year history.</p>
<p>However in the international categories, all three winners came from a non-white background with Drake, Beyonce and hip-hop veterans A Tribe Called Quest all receiving accolades.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the wait for a girl band to achieve success in the British Group category continues after The 1975 beat Little Mix to claim their first Brit.</p>
<p>No all-female group has won in the category since the Brits started in 1977.</p>
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