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Glastonbury have announced R.A.E as the winner of this year’s Emerging Talent Competition.
The annual contest offers rising acts the chance to win a slot on one of the festival’s main stages as well as a £5000 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation.
Despite the 2020 event being cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, Glasto organisers decided to go ahead with the competition as planned.
Over the course of this evening (June 17), the top three acts from the previously-announced eight finalists were unveiled on the official Glastonbury Twitter account. You can see the posts below.
West London singer-songwriter Matilda Mann and Newscastle’s AJIMAL took third and second place respectively, each securing a slot at Glastonbury 2021 and £2,500 from PRS.
OMG this is INSANE. Dreammmm come true to be playing at Glastonbury https://t.co/Dwx3LZY1us
— Matilda Mann BLM (@matildathemann) June 17, 2020
This is amazing and currently entirely surreal. I've been to glasto a few times and always had the most incredible time. It's been a bucket list dream to play for as long as I can remember, so thank you so much @glastonbury @PRSforMusic @PRSFoundation https://t.co/qifAOmOKpv
— AJIMAL (@ajimalmusic) June 17, 2020
YOU'RE JOKINGG!! OMDSS THANK YOU WOW!! https://t.co/xsufqw5APq
— R.A.E (@itsR_A_E) June 17, 2020
Taking the top prize was south-east London artist R.A.E, “who wowed the judges with her vibrant hip-hop & R&B!” Responding to the news, she wrote: “YOU’RE JOKINGG!! OMDSS THANK YOU WOW!!”
The Emerging Talent live finals, which usually take place at Pilton Working Men’s Club, didn’t go ahead this year due to current restrictions, so the winners were instead chosen using the song and live video each act entered with.
Speaking previously about this year’s competition, Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said: “There were so many great acts on the longlist, and narrowing it down from 90 acts to 8 certainly wasn’t an easy task.
“But I’m really happy with the finalists we have, and I very much hope that people will take the time to check them all out.”
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