United Kingdom, March 1 -- Ezra Collective were named Group of the Year at the BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard.

The jazz quartet - which consists of Femi Koleoso, TJ Koleoso, Ife Ogunjobi, James Mollison and Joe Armon-Jones -had fought off competition from Bring Me the Horizon, Coldplay, The Cure and The Last Dinner Party to win their first BRIT on Saturday (01.03.25) evening.

Speaking live on stage at London's O2 Arena, frontman Femi said: "First and foremost, let me thank my lord and saviour Jesus Christ."

The 'God Gave Me Feet For Dancing' hitmaker met at the jazz programme Tomorrow's Warriors in 2012, and Femi went on to insist that encouraging young people to take up music will be the "solution" to a number of societal probelms....