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entertainment">Due to the corona crisis, the Grammy’s awards looked different than usual this year. This edition, for example, there was no audience and only the artists who came to perform and nominees were welcome.
entertainment">Harry Styles opened the show with Watermelon Sugar and also won his first Grammy for drone song in the category best solo performance in the genre of pop. Beyoncé has also held the record for female artists with the most Grammys since Sunday, her trophy cabinet currently has 28 Grammys.
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Best songs
entertainment">Billie Eilish in H.E.R. have taken home one of the important prizes of the evening. They won with their songs Everything I Wanted in I Can’t Breath in the categories Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
entertainment">Those awards sometimes cause confusion, because both prizes are for a song. Song of the Year is the award for the authors of a song, while the Record of the Year goes to the artist who performs the song.
entertainment">HER won for songwriting I Can’t Breathe, of which she is also the singer. The 23-year-old wrote the song in response to the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matterprotests that followed. “I never thought that my fear and pain would become something that could potentially have an impact and change anything,” the singer said in her speech. “That is the point. That’s why I write music, why I do this. ”
entertainment">Billie Eilish won for singing Everything I Wanted, that she along with her brother Finneas wrote. When she received the award, the 19-year-old said she had assumed it Megan Thee Stallion the prize would win for Savage. She asked her fellow nominees, who attended the ceremony in Los Angeles, to cheer for Megan.
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Finneas and Billie Eilish with their Record of the Year and Best Song Written For Visual Media awards.
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Best album
entertainment">The album Folklore from Taylor Swift is voted best record of the year. That award is often regarded as the most prestigious of the Grammy Awards.
entertainment">In her speech, Taylor, who has kept her private life out of the spotlight in recent years, called her boyfriend Joe Alwyn ‘for whom I play all my songs first’. “I had so much fun writing with you during quarantine.” The singer also thanked her friends Ryan Reynolds in Blake Lively and their children.
entertainment">Taylor was nominated for six Grammys, but grabbed the awards in the other categories.
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New artist
entertainment">Rapper Megan Thee Stallion received the Grammy for best new artist. Earlier in the day it was announced that the 26-year-old had also won awards for her rap work on the remix she made with Beyoncé of her hit. Savage.
entertainment">In her speech, the musician dedicated the award to her mother, who passed away in 2019. “I know she watches over me and is proud of me. She and my father, they made me and they always supported me. ”
entertainment">Megan competed against other newcomers Ingrid Andress, Phoebe Bridgers, Noah Cyrus, Chika, D Smoke, like Cat, Kaytranada.
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Megan Thee Stallion
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Comedy
entertainment">Also Tiffany Haddish may put a Grammy in her trophy cabinet. The comedian won the statuette in the best comedy recording category, for the recording of her show Black Mitzvah.
entertainment">Tiffany announced in December that she had been asked to present the Grammys this year, but declined. Reason being, the organizer expected the Recording Academy to cover all costs for things like hair, makeup, and clothing. “It should all come out of my own pocket,” she said Variety. “I don’t know if this means that I will never be nominated again, but I thought it was disrespectful.”
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Tiffany Haddish
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Film scores
entertainment">Billie Eilish’ No Time To Die was the best movie song of the past year according to the Grammy judges. The song was released in February of 2020, ahead of the release of Bondfilm No Time To Die. However, due to the corona crisis that broke out the following month, that film is still not shown in the cinemas. Billie beat with her work Beautiful Ghosts from Cats, Carried Me With You from Onward, Into The Unknown from Frozen 2 in Stand Up from Harriet.
entertainment">Also the movie’s soundtrack Jojo Rabbit has won a Grammy. The record beat the soundtrack of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga.
entertainment">The score for the film scores went from Joker run off with the win. Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir thereby beat her colleagues behind the music of Ad Astra, Becoming, 1917 in Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker.
Other categories
entertainment">Lady Gaga in Ariana Grande won for Rain on Me the award for best pop duo. They defeated this, among other things BTS met Dynamite, Justin Bieber met Intentions in J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny in Tainy met Un Dia (One Day).
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Lady Gaga in Ariana Grande
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entertainment">Dua Lipa took home the award for ‘best pop vocal album’ Future Nostalgia. As a result, stayed Justin Bieber (Changes), Lady Gaga (Chromatica), Harry Styles (Fine Line) in Taylor Swift (Folklore) in this category left empty-handed.
entertainment">This year the prize for best country album went to Miranda Lambert met Wildcard. Vince Gill then took home the Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance for his performance of When My Amy Prays in Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber were with their single 10,000 Hours the winners for best country duo performance.
entertainment">Thundercat wins with It Is What It Is the prize for best progressive R&B album, Megan Thee Stallion in Beyoncé fell with Savage (Remix) in the awards for best rap song and In the received the award for best rap album for this King’s Disease. Anderson .Paak was allowed for his number Lockdown receive the Grammy for best melodic rap.
entertainment">The award for best dance recording went to Kaytranada ft. Kali Uchis met 10%, Kaytranada also took home the prize for best dance and electronic album for Bubba.
entertainment">Fiona Apple is the winner in the best rock performance category and won for her album Fetch the Bolt Cutters the award for best alternative album. Bum Rush took home the award for best metal performance and The Strokes got with The New Abnormal the award for best rock album for.
entertainment">Beyoncé in Blue Ivy managed to win the Grammy in the Best Music Video category with their music video for the song Brown Skin Girl, together with SAINt JHN in Wizkid. The award was announced before the official 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony began on Sunday evening.
entertainment">Also Kanye West won a Grammy. His album Jesus is King was awarded in the Best Contemporary Christian Music category.
entertainment">The two Dutch contenders at the Grammys did not win any prizes on Sunday. Both it Metropole Orchestra as Vincent van den Ende saw the most important American music prize pass them by.
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