In 2011, at age 14, Wilson signed a record deal with Sony's RCA Records via J Records, in a deal arranged by her manager Jeff Robinson's MBK Entertainment. She performed at the 2010 BET Awards covering Keys' " Fallin'", sang a tribute to Keys at the ASCAP Awards, and competed on Radio Disney's The Next BIG Thing at age 12, with her song "My Music" featured on Radio Disney.
At this time, she was managed by Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. She also performed on Maury in 2007, Good Morning America, and The View in 2008. She made her acting debut at the age of 9, starring in the Nickelodeon television film School Gyrls. Musical career 2007–2011: Career beginnings Īt age ten, performing as Gabi Wilson, she played an Alicia Keys song on the piano for the Today Show and at the famed Apollo Theater in New York City on September 23, 2007, covering Aretha Franklin's " Freeway of Love". Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson was born on June 27, 1997, in Vallejo, California, to a Filipina American mother and an African American father and raised in California's San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut full-length album Back of My Mind was released in June 2021.Įarly life, family and education That same year, her song " Fight for You" from the film Judas and the Black Messiah, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and later earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance, the following year. In 2021, she was awarded the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for " I Can't Breathe".
Her second compilation album, I Used to Know Her, received five Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for "Hard Place".
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(2017), consisting of tracks from her first two EPs plus six additional songs, was nominated for five Grammy Awards, winning Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Album. Volume 1 under RCA, followed by four subsequent EPs. She has received several awards including an Academy Award, a Children's and Family Emmy Award, and five Grammy Awards, along with nominations for a Golden Globe Award, three American Music Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards.Īfter initial music appearances and singles under her real name, she re-emerged in 2016 as H.E.R., releasing her debut EP H.E.R. (pronounced "her", an acronym for "Having Everything Revealed"), is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson (born June 27, 1997), known professionally as H.E.R.
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