{"id":359638,"date":"2026-03-26T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359638\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:06:10","slug":"mobo-awards-2026-stars-arrive-as-little-simz-and-olivia-dean-lead-nominations-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359638\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobo Awards 2026: Stars arrive as Little Simz and Olivia Dean lead nominations &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awards season success makes it So Easy (To Fall in Love) with Olivia Deanpublished at 17:28 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:28 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/663f41a7-b82c-4c30-83da-7df60f9edcda.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mark Savage<br \/>Music correspondent, reporting from the Mobos<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Olivia Dean in a yellow dress with blue flower details, smiling at the camera at the Brit awards.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ab4a947b-9af5-463e-b95f-327bebdebfb9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What a start to the year Olivia Dean has had. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, she scooped four awards at the Brits, including album of the year. A couple of weeks earlier, she\u2019d been crowned best new artist at the Grammys. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tonight, she\u2019s up for another four awards at the Mobos and it\u2019d be inconceivable for her to leave empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Behind all that success is her second album, The Art Of Loving, a smooth and elegant collection of pop songs that draw on the lineage of Amy Winehouse, Sade, Carole King and Lauryn Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Songs like Man I Need and So Easy (To Fall In Love) made her the first British woman since Adele to land three singles simultaneously in the UK Top 10. Later this year, she\u2019ll play six sold out nights at the O2 Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Tottenham and raised in Highams Park, north-east London, the singer has also made headlines by blasting Ticketmaster and other providers for charging eye-watering resale prices for tickets to her US tour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After posting a statement calling them &#8220;disgusting&#8221;, Ticketmaster relented and refunded fans who\u2019d overpaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Awards season success makes it So Easy (To Fall in Love) with Olivia Deanpublished at 17:28 GMT 17:28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-359638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}