FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 record photo, Arlo Parks attends the GQ Men of The Year Awards astatine the Tate Modern successful London. Soulful British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks has won the prestigious Mercury Prize for her debut medium Collapsed successful Sunbeams. The 21-year-old Londoner bushed acts including vocalist Celeste, rapper Ghetts and bands Wolf Alice and Mogwai to the 25,000-pound ($30,000) prize, which recognizes the outstanding British oregon Irish medium of the year. (AP Photo/Scott Garfitt, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 record photo, Arlo Parks attends the GQ Men of The Year Awards astatine the Tate Modern successful London. Soulful British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks has won the prestigious Mercury Prize for her debut medium Collapsed successful Sunbeams. The 21-year-old Londoner bushed acts including vocalist Celeste, rapper Ghetts and bands Wolf Alice and Mogwai to the 25,000-pound ($30,000) prize, which recognizes the outstanding British oregon Irish medium of the year. (AP Photo/Scott Garfitt, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

LONDON – Soulful British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks has won the prestigious Mercury Prize for her debut medium “Collapsed successful Sunbeams.”

The 21-year-old Londoner bushed acts including vocalist Celeste, rapper Ghetts and bands Wolf Alice and Mogwai to the 25,000-pound ($30,000) prize, which recognizes the outstanding British oregon Irish medium of the year.

Parks, who won the champion caller creator grant astatine this year’s Brit Awards, cites an eclectic array of philharmonic inspirations, including Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Solange and Massive Attack.

The judging sheet said the medium “captured the tone of the year” and addressed “such analyzable issues arsenic intelligence wellness and sexuality with existent empathy, displaying a lyrical contented that belied her 21 years.”

Accepting the grant precocious Thursday, Parks said “it took a batch of sacrifice and hard enactment to get present and determination were moments wherever I wasn’t definite whether I would marque it done — but I americium present contiguous truthful convey you precise much.”

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Established successful 1992 and unfastened to acts from Britain and Ireland, the Mercury Prize often favors the eclectic and the innovative implicit better-known performers. Previous winners see Michael Kiwanuka, Skepta, James Blake and Arctic Monkeys.

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