{"id":442986,"date":"2026-01-28T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:20:07","slug":"mobo-awards-2026-olivia-dean-set-to-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442986\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobo Awards 2026: Olivia Dean set to perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ceremony will mark the 30th anniversary of the organisation, which celebrates black music in the UK and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is already set to be an exciting night for London-born singer Olivia whose soulful album, The Art Of Loving, is up for four awards, including album of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will be up against British trio Flo for the coveted prize, who have been nominated for their debut album, Access All Areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rapper and three-time Mobo winner Little Simz&#8217;s sixth album Lotus is also up for the prize and has received four nods in total. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other album of the year nominees include jazz quintet Ezra Collective for Dance, No One&#8217;s Watching, Kojey Radical&#8217;s second offering, Don&#8217;t Look Down and Central Cee&#8217;s first studio album, Can&#8217;t Rush Greatness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boy&#8217;s A Liar singer PinkPantheress and rapper Skepta have also received multiple nominations, as well as newcomers Kwn and Jim Legxacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ceremony will mark the 30th anniversary of the organisation, which celebrates black music in the UK and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-442986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442986","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=442986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}