There were three big winners at the Grammy Awards this Sunday: Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste, and Silk Sonic.
The 19-year-old singer won Best Pop Performance, Best New Artist, and Best Pop Album, while the New Orleans-based artist won awards for Album of the Year, among others. for Roots Performance and Best Roots Song, for its title
Cry
.
Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson.
Paak walked away with the award for Recording of the Year for
Leave the Door Open
, and Song of the Year, Performance of the Year, and R&B Track of the Year for the same track.
Tributes
The 2022 ceremony was also marked by two moving moments: the tribute to Taylor Hawkins, the drummer of the Foo Fighters who died at the end of last month.
The musician was at the heart of a special streak on the track
My Hero
, as the band won three Grammys in the rock categories.
The second highlight was the pre-recorded speech by Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.
“Our musicians wear bulletproof vests instead of tuxedos.
They sing for the wounded in the hospitals, even for those who cannot hear them.
But the music will pass through [the noise of the bullets],” he told the assembly, as relayed by the BBC.
“What is more opposed to music?
The silence of cities in ruins and people killed.
War does not let us choose who survives and who remains in eternal silence,” he added, before concluding by wishing that his people would soon be “free as the people are free on the stage of the Grammys”.
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