Shakira, Ed Sheeran and Dave among champs at 67th yearly Ivors Awards in London

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About 21 lyricists and authors gathered their Ivor Novello gongs across 14 classifications spreading over music, film, TV and computer games at the elegant service at Grosvenor House in London.

About 21 lyricists and authors gathered their Ivor Novello gongs across 14 classifications spreading over music, film, TV and computer games at the elegant service at Grosvenor House in London.

Sheeran, 31, got most performed work grant for Bad Habits, close by co-authors Fred Again and Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol.

The success is his fifth at the honors following outcome in 2018 with Shape of You and 2012 with his advanced hit The A Team.

In the interim, 23-year-old Dave asserted musician of the year after his widely praised second collection We’re All Alone In This Together went to number one of every 2021.

It is his fourth Ivor Novello after already winning best contemporary tune multiple times for Question Time in 2018, Black in 2020 and Children Of The Internet last year.

Colombian popstar Shakira made an unexpected on honorary pathway before the function, presently in its 67th year, prior to gathering the exceptional worldwide honor to pay tribute to her worldwide fame.

Geordie vocalist musician Sam Fender won his most memorable Ivor Novello at the function for best tune artistically and melodiously for his exemplary stone propelled track Seventeen Going Under – which was written about his high school a very long time in North Shields and the difficulties his family confronted.

Somewhere else, best contemporary tune was granted to music maker Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover and rapper Little Simz for I Love You, I Hate You, taken from her 2021 collection Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.

What’s more, for a third successive year since its creation in 2020, a female craftsman brought back home the rising star grant, with Naomi Kimpenu getting the award.

Her introduction EP Prelude was delivered last year and adulated by the Ivors Academy for her “impeccably presented vocals and true songwriting”.

The Cure’s Robert Smith and Simon Gallup were granted the music symbol grant after their gothic stone and post-punk hits stay powerful today.

While Peter Gabriel, the first lead artist of Genesis, got the partnership of The Ivors Academy in acknowledgment of his “remarkable commitments as a performer, pioneer, helpful and musician”.

All Saints star Shaznay Lewis, an adjudicator for The Ivors and when a victor herself, said: “I’m totally excited during the current year’s champs, who have joined a steadily growing rundown of incredible musicians and screen arrangers.

“It is an honor to experience such a tremendously strong, emotive and varied scope of music.

“Tremendous congrats to every individual who brought back home honors, and each and every lyricist and arranger designated.”

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