After taking the stage, the 65-year-old actress held up her trophy and belted out the opening lyrics to 'Endangered Species' by Dianne Reeves, a five-time Grammy-winning jazz singer.
Quinta Brunson, who created "Abbott Elementary", also won an Emmy for outstanding writing for a comedy series.Sheryl Lee Ralph won an Emmy as a first-time nominee at the age of 66 for best-supporting actress in the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary.
"I am an endangered species / But I sing no victim's song / I am a woman, I am an artist / And I know where my voice belongs," she sang. "To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn't, wouldn't, couldn't come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like," she said. "This is what striving looks like, and don't you ever, ever give up on you."
Speaking to "Good Morning America" ahead of this year's Emmys, Ralph said her first ever Emmy nomination felt like "redemption" and "vindication," adding, "It felt like I'd been seen."
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