Blue Ivy bagged the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award at Sunday's Soul Train Awards for co-writing her mother's hit Brown Skin Girl, a song celebrating dark- and brown-skinned women. Blue Ivy gives a vocal performance that opens and closes the song, which also features Wizkid and Saint Jhn. The Carters were not at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas to accept the honour named after the legendary Motown songwriting duo Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Blue Ivy shares the win with Beyonce, Jay-Z, St Jhn and several other co-writers. This week could get even better for Blue Ivy. Grammy nominations will be revealed on Wednesday and Brown Skin Girl could earn the young star her first Grammy nomination (Beyonce has won 23 Grammys and Jay-Z has 22). Brown Skin Girl, which features Beyonce namedropping Lupita Nyong'o, Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland and singing lyrics like, "I love everything about you, from your nappy curls to every single curve", was also nominated for best collaboration … [Read more...] about Beyonce’s daugher wins songwriting award
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Smart training is what I’ve learnt in the last 18 months: Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
Even in a world class Indian shooting environment, if Indian fans don’t instantly connect with skeet, it could be due to the other clay-target event, trap and double trap, having fetched bigger returns, including an Olympic silver.However, it can all change at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, the 23-year-old from Chandigarh, won gold at the Asian Championships in Doha early this month, in a one-two after clinching a shoot-off against compatriot Mairaj Ahmad. The latter had missed a final spot at the 2016 Rio Games by a whisker. He ensured a second quota (Olympic qualifying) place with his silver.Bajwa, among the record 15 Indians who have won quotas for Tokyo, is hardly celebrating. The world record holder with a perfect 60/60 in the finals of last year’s Asian Shotgun Championships in Kuwait has sights set on the big prize—an Olympic podium finish.Staying sober is vital. Last year, he failed to qualify for the final in the Jakarta Asian Games, though … [Read more...] about Smart training is what I’ve learnt in the last 18 months: Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
