{"id":509018,"date":"2026-02-28T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509018\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:58:07","slug":"8-year-old-maryland-girl-wins-grammy-replacing-blue-ivy-carter-as-youngest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509018\/","title":{"rendered":"8-year-old Maryland girl wins Grammy, replacing Blue Ivy Carter as youngest winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (7News) \u2014 An 8-year-old girl from Maryland <\/a>is celebrating a historic Grammy<\/a> win, and she’s doing it during Black History Month<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Aura V and her dad, recording artist Fy\u00fctch, won a Grammy Award for Best Children’s Music Album earlier this month for their father-daughter duo project “Harmony.” <\/p>\n

With the win, Aura V is now believed to be the youngest Grammy winner in history at just 8 years old, surpassing Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, who won in 2021 when she was just 9 years old. <\/p>\n

“We didn\u2019t think that we would make history with this award,” Fy\u00fctch said. \u201cThe fact that she did that at age eight. We were like \u2018Woah.'” <\/p>\n

Harold Simmons III, whose artist name is Fy\u00fctch, built his music career after starting with poetry and rap as a student. Now a solo artist known for blending education and activism into his work, he collaborated with his daughter on an album centered on themes of family, gratitude, and learning. <\/p>\n

Aura V, a student in the Charles County<\/a> Public Schools (CCPS) district, began her musical journey early while growing up in a fourth-generation musical family. At 4 years old, she appeared in a short soundbite on her father’s album “Family Tree.”<\/p>\n

“Singing brings me to another world,” Aura said. “It’s like my happy place.” <\/p>\n

The pair’s album “Harmony” focuses on education, empowerment, and positivity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (7News) \u2014 An 8-year-old girl from Maryland is celebrating a historic Grammy win, and she’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-509018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509018","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=509018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}