‘Fight Song’ Singer Rachel Platten, Judith Hill & More to Be Honored at 2026 She Rocks Awards

Singers Rachel Platten and Judith Hill, bassist Rhonda Smith and guitarist Sophie Burrell are the archetypal honorees announced for the 14th yearly She Rocks Awards, which volition instrumentality spot connected Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, astatine the Hilton Hotel successful Anaheim, Calif. during NAMM. The awards are presented by the Women‘s International Music Network.

Platten is best-known for the anthemic “Fight Song,” which she co-wrote with Dave Bassett. The opus reached No. 6 connected the Billboard Hot 100 successful August 2015. Platten received a Daytime Emmy Award for a unrecorded show of the opus connected Good Morning America. Her follow-up single, “Stand by You,” besides made the apical 40 connected the Hot 100.

Hill is simply a vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with Prince, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Josh Groban. In 2009, she was chosen arsenic Jackson’s duet spouse for “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” during rehearsals for his planned This Is It performance residency. After Jackson’s decease that June, she, on with different This Is It formed members, performed astatine Jackson’s memorial service. In 2014, she was featured successful the Oscar-winning movie 20 Feet From Stardom. The pursuing year, she and her co-stars Darlene Love, Merry Clayton and Lisa Fischer won a Grammy for champion euphony movie for their enactment successful the film.

Smith is simply a bassist, calved successful Canada, who has collaborated with Prince, Jeff Beck and Chaka Khan, among others. She archetypal worked with Prince connected his Emancipation medium successful 1996. She went connected to grounds and circuit with the legendary instrumentalist for astir 10 years.

Burrell is simply a rising guitar and societal media star.

More honorees volition beryllium announced soon. The amusement is unfastened to the public. Tickets are connected merchantability now.