{"id":255905,"date":"2026-01-28T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/255905\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:03:08","slug":"mobo-awards-2026-olivia-dean-set-to-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/255905\/","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":255906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-255905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}