Kandi Burruss scores Emmy AND Tony nominations ahead of the premiere of the 18th season of RHOA
Kandi Burruss Scores Emmy AND Tony Nominations Ahead of RHOA’s 18th Season Premiere: ‘This Is Kind of Incredible’
Kandi Burruss moved closer to achieving ‘EGOT’ status this week with two major nominations.
The 46-year-old singer, songwriter and actress received an Emmy nomination on Monday and a Tony nomination on Tuesday.
Kandi and her husband, Todd Tucker, received a Tony nomination for their work on the production team of the hit Broadway show The Piano Lesson, the day after Kandi received her first Emmy nomination for her work on the Spanish TV show La Musica the La Familia.
The Grammy Award winner – who rose to fame in 1992 as a member of the female vocal group Xscape – expressed her excitement during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter this week, saying, ‘I’m overjoyed now. This is quite unbelievable.’
She added, “You know how you’ve talked things into existence in your life and prayed for them and done all of that? But when it really starts to happen in a major way, you almost think, “Whoa, is this happening?”
Looking good: Kandi Burruss looked chic as she attended the 76th Annual Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Event at Sofitel New York in New York City on Thursday
Big week: The 46-year-old mother of three received an Emmy nomination on Monday for her work on the Spanish TV show La Musica de La Familia and a Tony nod on Tuesday as part of the Broadway production team for The Piano Lesson
“For the two nominations to happen back-to-back in 24 hours — it was just incredible,” she said.
This comes as the 15th season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta will premiere on Sunday, May 7.
Burruss won the 2000 Best R&B Song Grammy Award for co-writing the TLC hit No Scrubs.
Kandi met her husband Todd in 2011 on the set of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
They got married in 2014 and went on to start a family with the arrival of their son Ace, six, in 2016.
They brought a baby girl named Blaze, three, into their lives via surrogate in 2019.
The artist previously welcomed a daughter named Riley, 19, with her ex-partner Russell Spencer.
Riley was just seven years old when her mother joined Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Kandi is now the longest-running Housewives star on Bravo.
Stressful: Burruss confessed in August that filming Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion specials “turned her stomach” because she hated “arguing with people”
Looking back: Burruss and Tucker first met in 2011 while working on the set of The Real Housewives of Atlanta
No way to prepare: The mother-of-three commented that in the past she was unaware that “many people who just came for [her] neck’ until she saw the drama unfold on her TV; seen in 2022
A full-time gig: Burruss, who rose to fame in the 1990s R&B vocal group Xscape, joined the cast of Real Housewives of Atlanta in its second season; pictured in 2017
Burruss has spoken out about her EGOT ambitions over the past year.
In March 2022, during a conversation with RevoltKandi clarified that her “dream” was to win a Tony, an Emmy and an Oscar to join the exclusive club.
Kandi said, “One day I’d like to be able to say I’m an EGOT winner. My goal is to get them all.’
She added, “Right now I have a Grammy, but my dream is to get that Oscar, that Tony and that Emmy.”