Mickey Guyton grew to become the initial Black woman country artist to execute on music’s maximum-profile awards demonstrate when she sang her “Black Like Me” at the 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday.

“It’s a hard lifestyle on Effortless Road / Just white-painted picket fences significantly as you can see,” she sang, backed by a churchy choir, in the midtempo reduce constructed on stately piano and craving metal guitar, “If you believe we stay in the land of the free of charge / You should attempt to be Black like me.”

Unveiled very last summer months amid the nationwide protests sparked by George Floyd’s killing, the tune offers a vivid reality look at from an artist who’s spoken frankly about the difficulties faced by Black artists in the overwhelmingly white world of state new music.

Guyton, 37, was nominated with “Black Like Me” for the Grammys’ region solo effectiveness award — as Trevor Noah pointed out in his intro, she was the very first Black woman solo artist to get a nod in a nation classification — but shed to Vince Gill, who took the prize with “When My Amy Prays.” The remaining artists in the group were Miranda Lambert, Brandy Clark and Eric Church. Last 12 months Willie Nelson gained with “Ride Me Back again Home.”

The award for nation solo overall performance dates back only to the 54th Grammys in 2012, when the group was produced to combine the trophies for feminine vocal state efficiency, male vocal region