Gracie Abrams Receives Top Honor from Alicia Keys at She Is The Music Event

Gracie Abrams took center stage at Los Angeles’ Peppermint Club for the She Is The Music: Women Sharing The Spotlight event hosted by Alicia Keys. A total of 50 women were recognized—25 honorees each spotlighting another inspiring female leader. Abrams stole the show with the night’s top honor, praised by Keys for running an all-female creative team of over 40 members—an impressive flex in an industry that still struggles with gender parity.

The event featured key industry leaders sharing new data on gender inequality in music and announcing upcoming workshops to set inclusion goals.

In accepting the honor Abrams said:

“It’s an interesting time to be a woman in America and I firmly believe that the way we survive and thrive is by leading together, by sticking our necks out for each other - especially when it’s difficult - and by being in community as much as possible. To improvise off Margaret Mead if you’ll allow: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed WOMEN can change the world. In fact it’s the only thing that ever has.’”

Women Sharing The Spotlight is set to return annually as a platform to empower and elevate women shaping the industry’s future.