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(The record for men is 18 for conductor Zubin Mehta, followed by Snoop Dogg with 17.) On Sunday, Sullivan is vying for three Grammys, including best R&B album for "Heaux Tales."įollowing a winning opening set by eminently likable British singer Tiana Major9 (the crowd loved the hit "Collide"), Sullivan took the stage Tuesday in a silver trench coat over a silver bodysuit and surged into "Bodies," a look-in-the-mirror talk with herself about getting messed up and sleeping around. She holds the distinction, along with Bjork, of having the most Grammy nominations by a woman without winning, at 15.
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While Sullivan has topped both the Billboard R&B album and singles charts, the 33-year-old Philadelphia native may be best known to a wider audience for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with country superstar Eric Church at the Super Bowl in 2021. Sometimes she invited the fans to sing a chorus or two, but most of the time they sang all the verses and the choruses anyway. Sullivan, a supreme vocalist, had three wonderful backup singers onstage and 1,500 more in the audience. In fact, they knew almost all her words by heart. So it's not surprising that Sullivan's sold-out concert Tuesday night at the Fillmore Minneapolis was packed with Black women in their 20s and 30s. And her words can hit harder than a Will Smith slap. The real hard truths about love, life and S-E-X. Her songs are the kind of intimate conversations a woman has with her besties or with her man. R&B star Jazmine Sullivan is the queen of frankness.