Trans icon Ts Madison has been honoured by the Grammys for her work on Beyoncé’s Renaissance (Gilbert Flores/Selection through Getty Pictures, Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood)
RuPaul’s Drag Race decide Ts Madison has been honoured by the Recording Academy for her work on Beyoncé’s Grammy-Award-winning album, Renaissance.
Beyoncé’s Renaissance was a love letter to the queer group, with the home album that includes and sampling a bunch of queer and trans Black artists, together with MikeQ, Huge Freedia, Kevin Aviance.
Madison appeared on fan-favourite observe “Cozy”, with snippets from her “B***h, I’m Black” monologue from 2020.
With Madison beforehand revealing how she reacted to being featured on Queen B’s album, and the way she got here to understand that it was Beyoncé asking to pattern her voice, she has now been honoured by the Grammys.
Posting the “sudden present” on her X/Twitter account, Madison wrote: “Thanks [Beyoncé] for letting me be aside [sic] of your masterpiece. I’m so honoured to be a bit in a legacy of that means.
“Thanks [to the Recording Academy] for my Grammy certificates… I’m framing this and placing it on my wall within the work room.”
The certificates reads: “The Recording Academy presents this certificates to Ts Madison Hinton in recognition of your participation as songwriter on the Grammy-Award-winning recording, Renaissance, [by] Beyoncé.”
Renaissance famously misplaced out on the album of the yr Grammy in 2023, overwhelmed by Harry’s Home, by Harry Kinds. It did, nevertheless, win finest dance/digital album, with Madison credited as one of many songwriters.
Talking about being sampled on the album, Madison beforehand instructed Essence that she acquired a thriller memo that learn: “Madison, this can be a highly effective piece that you just did on YouTube, and we’re serious about sampling fragments of your voice for a report.”
Commenting on the message, Madison stated: “I used to be like ‘OK, properly how a lot you bought?’ We figured it out so I nonetheless owned the rights.
“A couple of months later, I bumped into somebody who was engaged on Renaissance, however I didn’t know what the venture was on the time. We’re sitting all the way down to eat in LA and he says, ‘B***h, your voice sounds wonderful on this observe that’s arising’.
“And I used to be like: ‘What are you speaking about?’ He stated the ‘B**ch, I’m Black’. I requested which album and he instructed me he couldn’t say… I simply laughed and moved on, however by technique of elimination – this was a global artist who is thought for standing of their Blackness – I believed it could be Beyoncé.”