Grammy Awards Rosalía wins the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Latin Album for the second time
Beyoncé
climbed this Sunday night to the top of the ladder.
She is the queen of music and it will be difficult to dethrone her.
She left the gala as the most decorated artist in the history of the
Grammys
, in a story of unprecedented repetition and consistency.
The daughter of a hairdresser and a Xerox salesman
surpassed the 31 golden gramophones of the classical music director Georg Solti
and was, for the umpteenth time, the most dazzling star of the American Recording Academy Awards.
She set her personal tally at 32 for a total of 88 nominations.
Yes indeed.
He did not manage to win any of the
Big Four
, the considered great prizes of the night, which took a path as anarchic as it was unexpected.
They did not finish raising the status of Beyoncé's favorite nor did they wink at
Bad Bunny
that some expected after destroying her album,
A Summer Without You
.
Lizzo
won the Grammy for best recording of the year for
About Damn Time
and incidentally marked
the gala speech, talking about inclusion, positive music, feeling accepted
.
She dedicated the Grammy to Prince.
And to Beyoncé, confessing that she skipped class when she was a child to attend a concert of hers.
"I want to make people feel the same way you do with my music", she confessed to him excitedly.
Harry Styles
was more sparing
when he received the last award of the night, the
best album of the year
for
Harry's House
.
"This doesn't happen to people like me very often," said the Briton, exposing an air of shyness.
Before that, he had won the Grammy for
best pop vocal album
, which he said was "the best experience" of his life.
Colder was even the
song of the
year award.
When the First Lady of the United States,
Jill Biden
, announced the name of the winner, there was silence.
It seemed like a mistake.
Bonnie Raitt
, the guitarist and blues singer couldn't believe it.
But if.
His was the Grammy for
Just Like That
, a quiet, old-fashioned number about a heart transplant that beat out nominations from the biggest stars present.
Sweet and sour surprise.
Still, it was an unforgettable night for Beyoncé.
Trevor Noah
, the comedian and presenter of the gala for the third consecutive year, soon settled the debate after confirming the record.
"
It's not Jordan, nor Lebron... nor Messi. The GOAT (the greatest in history) is Beyoncé
," he said.
The 41-year-old Texan held back tears as best she could.
The moment was solemn.
Before the broadcast of the ceremony began, he had a shot at achieving the record.
She won two Grammys, for best dance or electronic music recording and for best traditional R&B performance.
Later, she matched Solti's mark with the gramophone for best song for
Cuff It,
before surpassing him after imposing the law on her with
Reinassance
for best Dance album of the year, a category in which a black woman had never won.
The umpteenth milestone of hers.
Adele
took the stage to collect the award for Best Pop Solo Performance for
Easy on Me
.
"I wrote the first verse in the shower," she said in her impromptu style, standing afterwards to applaud the uniquely Bronx-based voice talent of
Samara Joy
, the
best new artist of the year
.
Despite not making his name at the final awards,
Bad Bunny
also had a high dose of prominence during the gala.
In addition to opening the ceremony with her performance, she had her moment of glory after picking up the award for
best urban music album
for
Un verano sin ti
, the first album in Spanish to reach number one on Billboard.
He briefly said thank you in English before settling comfortably into his mother tongue for which he has serendipitously become a global ambassador.
"I dedicate it to Puerto Rico, the birthplace and capital of reggaeton throughout the world," he said, welcoming the new artists "who are refreshing the movement. Let's continue to take the genre to another level."
Kim Petras
also made history by being the
first transgender woman to win the Grammy
for Best Performance by a Pop Duo or Group for
Unholy
opposite
Sam Smith
, an achievement she took it upon herself to remember when she accepted the award.
Her speech was especially emotional.
"I grew up next to a highway in the middle of nowhere, Germany," she said.
"And my mother believed in me, that she was a girl. She wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her support."
The golden gramophone for
best rap album
went to
Kendrick Lamar
for
Mr Morale and the Big Steppers
and
best rock album
to Ozzy Osbourne.
Rosalía also imposed the condition of her favorite by taking the distinction as
best Latin rock album
for
Motomami
.
She already has two Grammys in her showcase.
But the interest of the ceremony returned to reside in the
musical numbers
.
It depends on them that they raise audience levels in frank decline.
Bad Bunny was in charge of breaking the ice
.
He couldn't be any other way.
What in another era would have been a nice nod to the Latino community in general today is nothing more than a way of surrendering to the obvious.
A summer without you
is the phenomenon of the year, a record played to exhaustion.
The Puerto Rican put the cream of the music industry present at Cripto.com in Los Angeles to dance merengue with his Después
de la playa
.
"His album of his is so hot it makes Trump want to learn Spanish," Noah quipped afterwards.
The
tribute to 50 years of hip hop
was perhaps the best of the ceremony.
Parading the stage was a long line of performers including
Ice T
,
Queen Latifah
,
Lil Uzi Evert
,
Too Short
,
Grandmaster Flash
and
LL Cool
, a 12-minute rollout for Grammy history.
"It was something they owed to hip hop for a long time," said Jon Caramanica, music critic for The New York Times.
Additionally,
Stevie Wonder
joined the legendary Smokey Robinson and Chris Stapleton in a tribute to Motown, the record label, performing
Higher Ground
,
The Way You Do Things You Do
and
Tears of a Clown
.
Harry Styles performed
As it Was
, albeit with less energy than expected, focused more on choreography and staging than on enthusing those present in the pavilion.
Sam Smith did shine with his interpretation of
Unholy
alongside Kim Petras, a provocative display presented by the most provocative of all,
Madonna
, thanking the new rebels of the industry.
All this conducted with ease by Noah, who chose to celebrate the talent present instead of feeding on destructive jokes, as the presenters of other award ceremonies in Los Angeles are used to doing.
He gave the impression of having a great time, moving easily between performers and letting the gala flow.
They should offer him the Oscars.
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