{"id":246667,"date":"2025-10-28T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:07:07","slug":"ejae-kali-uchis-kehlani-named-ascap-women-behind-the-music-honorees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246667\/","title":{"rendered":"EJAE, Kali Uchis, Kehlani Named ASCAP Women Behind the Music Honorees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tASCAP<\/a> has revealed its lineup of honorees for the 17th annual Women Behind The Music event, taking place Nov. 12 in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

\n\tKehlani<\/a>, Kali Uchis<\/a> and \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u2019\u201d EJAE<\/a> will be recognized by the ASCAP <\/a>Membership team as \u201ctrailblazing women\u201d who join a group of previous honorees that includes songwriters, artists, managers, attorneys, label executives and music publishers. DJ C Devone will provide music at the event on Nov. 12. <\/p>\n

\n\tPrevious ASCAP Women Behind the Music honorees include Coco Jones, Kandi Burruss, Kelly Rowland, Victoria Mon\u00e9t, Joelle James, Salt-N-Pepa, Summer Walker, Jazmine Sullivan, Sheila E., Nova Wav, Shari Bryant, Brittney Davis, Phylicia Fant, Sammye Scott, Nicole Wyskoarko and more. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery year, ASCAP looks forward to spotlighting some of music\u2019s most extraordinary women by honoring them for their achievements at our Women Behind The Music event,\u201d said Nicole George-Middleton, ASCAP executive vice president and head of creative membership. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u200bThis year we are thrilled to recognize three women who are pushing boundaries and capturing the world\u2019s attention across different genres. Their creative success has propelled them to the top of the charts and is set to inspire the next generation of women in music. We congratulate Ejae, Kali Uchis and Kehlani and can\u2019t wait to celebrate them at this year\u2019s ASCAP Women Behind the Music.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tKehlani<\/a> is a five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who has earned more than 20 gold and platinum RIAA certifications. She has amassed over five billion streams and garnered five Grammy nominations. Her fourth full-length, \u201cCrash,\u201d received a Grammy nomination for best progressive R&B album, while the set\u2019s single, \u201cAfter Hours,\u201d was up for best R&B performance. <\/p>\n

\n\tUchis<\/a> has released several critically-acclaimed records in previous years, including 2023\u2019s \u201cRed Moon in Venus,\u201d and 2024\u2019s \u201cOrqu\u00eddeas.\u201d The latter debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and earned nominations for best Latin pop album at the 2025 Grammy awards and best pop vocal album at the Latin Grammys. <\/p>\n

\n\tEJAE<\/a> is the singing voice of Rumi, the leader of Huntr\/x, the girl group featured in the animated blockbuster \u201cKPop Demon Hunters.\u201d In addition to performing all of Rumi\u2019s vocals, EJAE played a crucial role in the music and development of the movie \u2014 director Maggie Kang called her the \u201cheart and soul\u201d of the girl group. EJAE wrote the record-breaking single \u201cGolden,\u201d which has topped the Billboard Hot 100 Charts, Billboard Global 200 Chart, and been streamed 700 million times and counting on Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASCAP has revealed its lineup of honorees for the 17th annual Women Behind The Music event, taking place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146504,64,63,49945,134,134111,102765,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-246667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ascap","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ejae","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kali-uchis","14":"tag-kehlani","15":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}