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Mary J. Blige all the time brings it on the crimson carpet — and she or he didn’t allow us to down on the Billboard Music Awards! The 51-year-old arrived on the MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas rocking a sequin black robe with nude mesh panelling by Julian Macdonald. The tremendous attractive quantity featured a deep-v lower and cutout, together with a excessive middle slit displaying off her thigh tattoo. Mary’s glam was on level too, along with her blonde locks up in a excessive mermaid model pony, a shiny lip and glowing pores and skin.
Mary is ready to obtain the Icon Award on the present, which is being held on Sunday, Might 15 in Las Vegas Nevada. The “Household Affair” songstress is the eleventh artist to be bestowed with the respect, alongside facet Neil Diamond, Stevie Marvel, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Cher, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks, and P!NK. After all, she greater than deserves the accolades along with her extremely profitable music profession that has now spanned three many years — beginning with 1992’s What’s the 411?
“My profession has been such an unimaginable and surprising journey that has included many turns into avenues I by no means may have imagined like performing, producing, launching companies and now even my very own music pageant,” she mentioned in a press release after it was introduced she can be receiving the Icon Award.
“By way of all of it, I all the time a technique or one other gravitated again to my past love, music. To be acknowledged on this approach at this second, with the Icon Award on the Billboard Music Awards, is an unimaginable honor and one which I’m really humbled by,” Mary additionally mentioned. She’s beforehand received 10 BBMAs: one in 1995 within the R&B album of the 12 months class for My Life, and a whopping 9 awards on the 2006 present for The Breakthrough.
By way of her profession, she’s had 4 primary albums on the Billboard 200: Share My World, Love & Life, The Breakthrough and Rising Pains, in addition to a primary hit with “Household Affair” in 2002. Notably, she has additionally received 9 GRAMMY Awards.
The Bronx native — who is usually referred to as the “Queen of Hip-Hop and Soul” — can be slated to carry out on the present.
