{"id":937384,"date":"2026-10-22T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937384\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:08:12","slug":"mercury-prize-winner-announced-in-star-studded-ceremony-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937384\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Prize: Winner announced in star-studded ceremony &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m owning my womanhood now,&#8217; says Nia Archivespublished at 21:38 BST<\/p>\n<p>21:38 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/24ca107c-8fd0-4065-b525-0dac27890e81.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Eleanor Doyle<br \/>BBC Newsbeat, at the Mercury Prize awards<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Record producer, DJ, singer and songwriter &#8211; Nia Archives does it all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her album Emotional Junglist is definitely more grown up, and Nia says she\u2019s feeling &#8220;more sexy&#8221; with her sound recently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Newsbeat earlier, she said: &#8220;I\u2019ve just turned 27 a month ago. I\u2019m talking about grown up topics now. I\u2019m stepping into and owning my womanhood now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also says she\u2019s pleased the award looks beyond streaming figures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They look at the album as a full piece. Which is amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told us she\u2019s not expecting to win, but would &#8220;hypothetically invest it into [her] label and take them abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I\u2019d also like to spend it on getting more young people into dance music,&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nia Archives raises her hands in the air\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/74ea58c4-48f0-41e8-9dfc-79236aee8db9.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, JMEnternational\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m owning my womanhood now,&#8217; says Nia Archivespublished at 21:38 BST 21:38 BST Eleanor DoyleBBC Newsbeat, at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-937384","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\/937384","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=937384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}