Skepta beats David Bowie to win 25th Mercury Prize, UK's biggest music award

Skepta

Grime artist Skepta has been announced as the winner of the Mercury Prize, the UK's most prestigious music award.

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The north London-born singer won the award and the £25,000 prize for his fourth studio album Konnichiwa at the ceremony at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London, on Thursday night.

The album was released on Skepta's Boy Better Know record label which he co-founded with his brother JME in 2005 and was described by industry figures as "confident, funny, clever, scary, personal and political".

He beat the bookies' favourite, David Bowie, who would have become the first posthumous winner of the prize for his album Blackstar.

Speaking after the announcement, he said: "For everyone who knows what it takes to put an album together it's so much more than making the music, everyone who was there for me when I was going through depressed times.

"We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

"I wouldn't say it's a grime revolution - this is a really good time for grime but I think this is a revolution for freedom.

"Not just in music. So many people are getting up by themselves making things work online, using the same acumen if you was working for a big company to just do it yourself."

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