The Untold Truth Of Jimmie Allen

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

In 2021, at the 56th ACM Awards โ€” that's Academy of Country Music Awards for the uninitiated โ€” Jimmie Allen became the first Black artist to win New Male Artist of the Year. The singer understands all too well just how significant that is. "I feel like representation is so important, so to see artists like Mickey Guyton doing her thing, Kane Brown, Darius Rucker, Willie Jones, Breland, Brittany Spencer, Tiera โ€” it's just so many that are starting to come to this genre of music, doing it their way, having their own sound, and I love to see it," he told People after his historic win.

That said, Allen rightfully takes the time to question why it took so long for a milestone like this one to materialize. "On one half, it feels great," he told tWitch on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." "The other half is kinda sad that, you know, we're in 2021, and kinda still talking about that, so my thing, man, it just shows the growth of the country music genre, where we're heading, and hopefully the next couple of years it'll be like every other genre where it's not really about your skin color." Allen just wants himself and his fellow nonwhite country artists to be seen for who they really are and the art they create.

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