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Congratulations to TJ Osborne and his brother John for winning the 2022 Grammy Award for the Country Music - for their song “Younger Me”. In their acceptance speech, TJ expressed:

“For those of you who do not know, this song was written really in response to me coming out. I never thought I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality.”

The Brothers Osborne come from a musical family and began performing professionally in 2013. The duo have also won five CMA Awards and six ACM Awards. The “Younger Me” video was nominated for a CMA Award for video of the year in 2021.

In recent years, TJ Osborne had been open about his sexuality with his close friends and family, but had concerns about how the impact of the news would affect him professional. But he publicly came out in February 2021 making TJ the only openly gay country music artist on a major label.

He explained:

“Country music is a beautiful genre, but there has been this kind of undercurrent of … only certain people are allowed in. However, when you go to shows, you see people of all walks of life enjoying it.”

In his Grammy acceptance speech TJ added:

“I certainly never thought I would be here on this stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life-changing, potentially in a very negative way. And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy award with my brother, who I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and who loves me back. I don’t know what I did to get so lucky.”

The man TJ loves is boyfriend Abi Ventura who he kissed before accepting the award.