Terry Blade

Terry Blade

Terry Blade is an American singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2020, he has received more than 100 music, film and video awards, nominations and honors. His 2020 debut single The Unloveable received a singer-songwriter nomination at the 11th Hollywood Music in Media Awards.In 2021, Blade's debut album American Descendant of Slavery, the Album was named in the Archives of African American Music & Culture's "February 2021 Black Music Releases of Note" alongside R&B and Soul releases by Jose James, Joshua Henry, Kelly Rowland, Nat Turner Rebellion, Pink Sweats, The Chi-Lites, The Jacksons, and Trippie Redd. The album also received an accolade from Something Else Reviews, which ranked it second on its "Best of 2021 Rock, Pop and R&B"—a list that included albums by Alan Clark, Joseph Williams, Peter Frampton, Tony Kaye, and Yes. The album and its lead single Black Hurts went on to win nineteen awards, including awards for Best Original Song and Best Black Music Video at the Munich Music Video Awards, the Gold Medal of Excellence Award for Lyrics/Songwriting at the Global Music Awards, and the Bronze Telly Award for Non-Broadcast-Craft:Use of Music.In 2022, Blade's second studio album Neo Queer won the Gold Medal of Excellence Award for Neo soul at the Global Music Awards. In 2023, his Blues single Won't Be Around entered the Spotify Local Pulse Charts for New York City and Houston. The song won Best Blues Recording at the 2023 Radio Music Awards; received an inaugural nomination at the 2023 Hollywood Independent Music Awards in the Americana/Roots category; and received a nomination at the 2023 InterContinental Music Awards in the Blues category. The song also appears on Blade's third studio album Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper, which received a nomination for Best Folk/Americana Album of the Year at the 2023 Josie Music Awards, and was featured on The Boot.com's "Most Wanted Music: 2023's Country and Americana Album Releases" along with album releases by Shania Twain, Margo Price, John-Allison Weiss, Elle King, and Mark Erelli. Blade's album won the Gold Medal of Excellence Award for Americana at the Global Music Awards. He won Best Vocalist at the 2023 Music Video Awards for the album's closing Gospel blues track In My House. The track also won the award for Best Gospel Recording at the 2023 Radio Music Awards. On April 1, 2023, Apple Music Radio Host Hunter Kelly featured Blade and his album's fourth track Rainbow Child on Apple Music's Proud Radio show, naming him and his track as the show's Proud Pick for April 2023.

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