At this year’s presentation in Los Angeles, Beyoncé set a record by taking home a record-breaking 32 Grammy Awards, while Harry Styles won Album of the Year.
Beyoncé created history when Renaissance, her ecstatic dance album, won best dance/electronic album.
She surpassed George Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor whose record of 31 Grammys had stood for more than 20 years, while doing so.
The celebrity added as she accepted her award, “I’m trying not to be too emotional.
“This night, I’m attempting to just receive,”
She continued by thanking her relatives, particularly her late uncle Jonny, who assisted her before she became well-known by making her performance clothes.
Beyoncé has previously said that her interest in dance music and its historical ties to the LGBTQ community was sparked by her husband’s fight with HIV.
Beyoncé took home four awards in all, but she missed a few of the earlier ones due to traffic in downtown Los Angeles.
Trevor Noah, the host, jokingly said, “I’m astonished traffic could stop you.” “I believed you were able to go through time and space.”
Beyoncé was once again denied the coveted album of the year accolade in spite of her achievements.
She has already lost the competition four times, most notably in 2017 when Adele’s 25 defeated her introspective masterpiece Lemonade.
He added, “This doesn’t happen to people like me very frequently, and this is so, so great,” yet he was obviously moved by the honor.
The star also won best pop album earlier in the evening; Jennifer Lopez gave him a kiss as he accepted his prize.
From beginning to end, making this record was the best experience of his life, he claimed. The greatest satisfaction I could have imagined came from creating it with two of my closest friends and performing for audiences.
The Grammys, dubbed “music’s biggest night,” are the top honors in the field.
Adele, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Shania Twain, and Stevie Wonder were among the performers at the show on Sunday. Lizzo, Steve Lacy, and Brandi Carlile also appeared.
Wet Leg, an independent duo, won two awards, including best alternative album, and Sam Smith won best pop duo/group performance for his duet with Kim Petras on the song Unholy.
Since winning four awards in 2015, including best new artist, Smith’s award was their first Grammy.
The singer allowed Petras to use the microphone to commemorate yet another historic accomplishment, though.
The German-born singer added, “Sam kindly wanted me to take this award because I’m the first transgender woman to win this prize.”
Prior to dedicating the prize to her mother, she thanked Madonna for “working for LGBTQ rights” and the late transgender pop musician Sophie for “kicking these doors wide.”
Smith proudly observed as she remarked, “I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Germany and my mother believed me, that I was a girl.” Without her and her assistance, “I wouldn’t be here.”
After Madonna introduced them, the couple performed their homage to adultery in a seductive, BDSM-inspired performance.
The celebrity claimed that if people describe you as surprising, scandalous, difficult, controversial, or dangerous, they are undoubtedly onto something.
With a dedication to her son Angelo, Adele received the award for best pop vocal performance for her song Easy On Me.
The singer revealed to the crowd that she wrote the first song “in the shower while I was choosing to change my son’s life” by getting a divorce from her ex-husband, Simon Konecki.
I adore it when a piano ballad wins any kind of award because it’s so classic and gutsy, she continued.
With her depressing ballad Just Like That, singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt unexpectedly won song of the year, defeating favorites Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
Voters were surely struck by Raitt’s compassionate lyrics, which depict a mom who is comforted by the guy who received her son’s heart in a transplant when she is grieving his death and is voting.
The 72-year-old woman thanked her audience for appreciating this one and stated, “I’m very glad that you did.”
In a riot of color, Bad Bunny opened the act by staging a Puerto Rican fiesta in the aisles of the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles.
His performance of a mashup of El Apagón and Después De La Playa featured fireworks, numerous dancers, and a group of cabezudos, the “bighead” puppets who parade through San Juan each January.
Un Verano Sin Ti, which lasted 13 weeks at number one in the US last year, later earned him the award for best Msica Urbana album.
The singer claimed, “When you do things with love and passion, everything is simpler. I made this record with those two qualities.
Other performers included gospel-infused renditions of Lizzo’s current single, Special, and Americana artist Brandi Carlile.
Later, she won record of the year for her song About Damn Time, and in her acceptance speech, she thanked Prince for giving her a break on his song Boytrouble.
“After Prince passed away, I made the decision to devote my life to creating uplifting music.” She also praised Beyoncé, referring to her as “the artist of our existence.”
Stars including Olivia Newton-John, Irene Cara, David Crosby, and Jeff Beck received an emotional send-off during the part dedicated to their memory.
In honor of the “Queen of Country,” Loretta Lynn, Kacey Musgraves sang a moving rendition of Coal Miner’s Daughter, while Christine McVie, a founding member of Fleetwood Mac, was honored with a performance of her trademark song, Songbird, by Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, and Mick Fleetwood.
And rapper Offset of the Migos performed the song Without You, which he penned following the devastating passing of his nephew and bandmate Takeoff in November.
Over twenty rap legends took the stage in a more joyous setting to mark the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
Grandmaster Flash, a pioneer of the turntable, opened the act with Flash Was On The Beat, setting the stage for a nearly 12-minute romp through the genre’s greatest classics.
Rock The Bells by Run-DMC, Yo, Bum Rush The Show by Public Enemy, Lose Control by Missy Elliot, a verse by Public Enemy, and a performance of Busta Rhymes’ fast-paced rap from Chris Brown’s Look At Me Now by Busta Rhymes all took place throughout the concert.
