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Raye Responds to Shattering the Record for Most 'BRITs' Nods in a Single Year · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: When the nominees for the brit Awards, the UK's answer
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Speaker 2: to the Grammys, were announced last week, Ray led the
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Speaker 2: field with seven nominations overall and set a new benchmark
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Speaker 2: in the process. The British born singer best known for
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Speaker 2: Escapism Stateside, became the only artist in the brit Awards
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Speaker 2: history to score at least seven nods in the same year.
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Speaker 2: In fact, you'd have to go all the way back
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Speaker 2: to two thousand and two to find the last time
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Speaker 2: any artists received six that's the Gorillas in the year
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Speaker 2: of their groundbreaking self titled debut. The weight of the
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Speaker 2: moment wasn't lost on Ray, who says in a statement,
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Speaker 2: I'm completely floored to be recognized seven times this year.
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Speaker 2: I was a brit school student and remember how a
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Speaker 2: dream one day of being recognized at the BRIT I'm
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Speaker 2: a mess of overwhelming emotions and confusion as to how
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Speaker 2: this even happened. Ray's debut out, My twenty first Century Blues,
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Speaker 2: is out now.
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