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Grammy 2021: Grupo Niche wins best Tropical Latin Album – Music and Books – Culture


The Niche Group won the Grammy in the category of Best Latin Tropical Album for his album ’40’.

Excited, the members of the group thanked God and Jairo Vrela, its founder.

“It is a reward for an effort and a job well done (…) It is a joint effort that has given us a reward and makes us happy,” said José Aguirre, its current director, when Niche received the nomination.

Niche competed with Jorge Celedón (‘I keep singing to love’ (deluxe)); Víctor Manuelle (‘Memories of Christmas’); José Alberto El Canario (‘My tumbao’), and Edwin Bonilla (‘Infinite’).

Minute by minute

The Grammy ceremony began with a tribute to Marvin Gayle’s ‘Mercy mercy me’, which was recorded in 1971.

Fito Paez He beat the Colombian Camilo. The Argentine won the golden gramophone in the section for Best Alternative Rock Album, with ‘The Conquest of Space’. Natalia Lafourcade won the musical recognition in the contest for the best album of regional Mexican music with the production Un canto por México, Vol. 1. Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, were the lucky ones to win the award for best album by Latin Jazz, by Four Questions

The same way, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande they won the battle as the best pop duo or group with Rain On Me :, from the album Chromatica. They left behind J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy, who competed with Un día; to Justin Bieber and Quavo, with Intentiosn and the famous BTS with their hit Dynamite and Exile, sung by Taylor Swift and Bon Iver

Rain On Me
Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande

Other laureates

– The first prize of that meeting was received by Kaytrada: she won Best dance recording, together with the Colombian Kali-Uchis, and Best electronic dance album, for ‘Bubba’.

– In the best video section, the Grammy went to ‘Brown skin girl’, by Beyoncé. While the Best Film went to Linda Ronstadt, with ‘The sound of my voice’.

– The award for best new era album, which went to ‘More guitar stories’, by Jim ‘Kimo’ West.

– In Best Gospel Presentation, the award went to the song ‘Movin’ on ‘, by Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music. The best album in that genre went to ‘Gospel according to PJ’, by PJ Morton. While Kanye West won with the album ‘Jesus is King’ the gramophone in the category of Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.

– Other specialized categories were delivered, such as Best design of a special box for an album, which was for the band Wilco, with ‘Ode to Joy’, as well as Beck’s ‘Hyperspace’, which won Best Engineering Work of a Classic Album.

Billie Eilish, American singer.


The song was also awarded No Time To Die [de la película de James Bond,  Sin tiempo para Morir], which Billie Eilish sings. That composition won the Grammy for best song written for a movie. The best composition of a soundtrack was for the film The Joker, by Hildur Guðnadóttir.

While the best contemporary classical music composition went to
Rouse: Symphony No. 5, de
Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony. The Grammy for best comedy album went to Tiffany Haddish’s Black Mitzvah. While the best alternative album went to Fetch The Bolt Cutters, de Fiona Apple, which also won best performance of a rock song with Shameika

Likewise,. A tribute was paid to the jazz artist Chick Corea, who passed away on February 9, with the recognition in the category for best jazz improvised solo, with All Jazz, as well as best Jazz instrumental album, (Trilogy 2), which he did with Christian McBride & Brian Blade.

John Legend also took home an award, receiving the Grammy in the category for best R&B album, for Bigger Love.

The Grammy to best metal performance went to Bum-Rush, from the Ice-T-led band: Body Count. In turn, Brittany Howard, famous for being the singer of Alabama Shakers, won the best rock song for Stay High. The Strokes, was awarded for his album The New Abnormal, as the best rock. The best rap album was Nas’s King’s Disease, among other winners.

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