2022 GRAMMYs: Who Won Best Traditional R&B Performance?
Justin Bieber, Doja Cat, and H.E.R. all scored eight nominations of their own, with H.E.R. winning the Best Traditional R&B Performance award earlier in the evening.
Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson known by her stage name as H.E.R. is an American R&B singer. After initial music appearances and singles under her real name, Wilson re-emerged in 2016 as H.E.R.
Born to a Filipina American mother and an African American father and raised in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, She began singing and performing as Gabi Wilson at the age of 10.
She is not only known for singing, she began acting at the of 9, starring in the Nickelodeon television film School Gyrls.
She also performed on Maury in 2007, Good Morning America, and The View in 2008 with Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment being her manager at that time.
H.E.R. professionally signed her first recording contractual deal with Sony’s RCA Records via J Records, in a deal arranged by her manager Jeff Robinson’s MBK Entertainment. Her debut single “Something to Prove” was released under her real name.
She had a major breakthrough in the year 2016 after she rebranded a new persona and that was when she she released her debut EP, H.E.R. Vol. 1 on September 9, 2016, produced by songwriter David “Swagg R’Celious” Harris.
