Olivia Dean sings for lovers, fighters and immigrant families at Crypto.com Arena

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Set us as preferred U.K.pop-soul singer Olivia Dean’s grandmother took her first plane ride at 18, when she emigrated to the U.K.

from Guyana.Dean poignantly recalled the move on her song “Carmen” on Tuesday during the first of a two-night run at the Crypto.com Arena .

“My Grandmother made me the person I am,” Dean said, introducing the song.“By the time she was my age she had four kids, one was my mum, and now I get to do this.”“Any immigrant brave enough” to leave their life behind for the benefit of future generations, Dean said, “Deserves to be celebrated.”That simple, honorable point about the dignity of emigrating remains painfully controversial in Dean’s home country and here.

In the U.K., an ascendant Reform party may pull the country deeper into the anti-immigrant far-right mire.In the U.S., ICE just killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas.Dean made a similar point at the Grammys in February, where she won for New Artist on the same stage.

In a broadly sweet, vivacious and gorgeously sung set Tuesday, that sentiment revealed the moral clarity that bolsters her songs about devotion and intimacy.To truly value love sometimes means being ready to change your life and fight for it.

Awards Olivia Dean, the British R&B singer who scored a major pop hit with ‘Man I Need,’ has won the Grammy for best new artist.Last year, with her second LP “The Art of Loving,” Dean became the latest British woman to earn global fame at the crux of old-soul balladry and modern pop panache.It’s a lane with enormous, established appeal (Sienna Spiro is already winding up to be next).

Yet Dean brought a fresh, easy-wearing charm to singles such as the Hot 100 smash “Man I Need,” a Whitney Houston-caliber banger that heralded an artfully emotive record.With...