Filipino American musician Steve Lacy wins Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album

The multitalented “Bad Habit” musician’s win adds to the expanding list of Fil-Ams finding success in the popular music circuit

By Tessa Mauricio-arriola ManilaTimes.net

ON Sunday, Feb. 5, the rising alternative R&B artist Steve Lacy won the Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album for his highly popular album, “Gemini Rights” — his firstever Grammy Award.

“It’s dope, to have it be mine. I didn’t have to change. I just have to be myself and get better at being myself and continuing to work hard,” Lacy told reporters shortly after winning the award at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, held at the Crypto. com Arena in Los Angeles.

During the ceremony, Lacy — who was nominated for for Grammys in total — also performed performed his universally acclaimed single and chart-topping, viral hit “Bad Habit,” which was also nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance of the year.

Lacy, 24, is half Black and half Filipino American and has been an assiduous singer-songwriter-producer since the early 2010s. But he skyrocketed to international popularity in 2022 with the release of “Bad Habit” and “Gemini Rights,” his second studio album that peaked within the Top 10 of the Billboard 200.

Born Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya, Lacy is the son of a Black American mother