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Chappell Roan is the first female pop star to achieve mainstream success as an openly queer person.
The 26-year-old is up for six Grammy awards next week , including best new artist.
BBC Radio 1 have named her Sound Of 2025 as their Sound of 2025 .
Her debut album, released in 2023 , has just topped the UK charts for a second time.
Roan only found a sound of her own when a group of gay friends took her to a drag bar.
She wrote a song imagining what it would be like to be one and how her mother would react.
Her label refused to release Pink Pony Club for two years and she was dropped in a round of pandemic-era cost-cutting.
She spent the next year serving coffee in a drive-through doughnut shop.
Chappell Roan was named BBC Radio 1's Sound Of 2025 by a panel of more than 180 musicians, critics and music industry experts.
She's already previewed two new songs, The Subway and The Giver, in concert.
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