The musician Jon Batiste (35), the singer Olivia Rodrigo (19) and the duo Silk Sonic have been awarded the music prizes in the main categories at this year's Grammys.
Batiste picked up a total of five awards at Sunday night's gala in Las Vegas, including a Grammy for Album of the Year for We Are.
Batiste had previously gone to the gala as a favorite with a total of eleven nominations.
Singer Rodrigo has won a total of three Grammys, including Best New Artist.
The duo Silk Sonic, consisting of Bruno Mars (36) and Anderson .Paak (36), won the categories "Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year" with the song "Leave the Door Open".
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj surprisingly spoke at the award ceremony.
In a pre-recorded video message, he asked for support for his country.
Nothing is more contrary to music than the "silence of destroyed cities and killed people," said Selenskyj.
Russia is bringing “a terrible silence” to Ukraine with its bombs.
"Fill the silence with your music, fill it today to tell our story."
He dreams that people in the embattled Ukrainian cities could live freely again - "as freely as you do on the Grammy stage".
After that, US singer John Legend sang a song dedicated to Ukraine together with Ukrainian musicians.
In the run-up to the Oscars gala last weekend, stars had demanded that Zelenskyj should be added, but nothing came of it.
With an allusion to the slap scandal surrounding actor Will Smith at the Oscar gala a week ago, moderator Trevor Noah was in the Grammy Awards.
"We're going to listen to music, we're going to dance, we're going to sing, we're going to let people's names out of our mouths and we're going to give out awards," said the comedian, who hosted the gala last year.
At the Academy Awards a week earlier, actor Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock onstage after he made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett.
After that, Smith, who went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in King Richard, yelled twice more from his seat, "Keep my wife's name out of your damn mouth!"
The Grammys were awarded for the 64th time this year.
The gala was originally planned for January 31, but was then postponed due to the rapid spread of the highly infectious omicron variant of the corona virus.
The nearly four-hour gala, which was broadcast live on US television, was moderated by comedian Trevor Noah.
Around 13,000 members of the Recording Academy decide on the winners of the Grammys, which are among the most coveted music awards in the world.