Grammy winners 2022:
- Document of the yr: "Depart The Door Open" by Silk Sonic
- Album of the Yr: "We Are" by Jon Batiste
- Music of the Yr: "Depart The Door Open" by Silk Sonic
- Finest New Artist: Olivia Rodrigo
Baptiste will get a hatful
Jon Batiste received album of the yr honors for “We Are” on the Grammy Awards on Sunday, giving him 5 trophies on an evening that noticed the ’70s funk of Silk Sonic take file of the yr and track of the yr and newcomer Olivia Rodrigo take three awards.
Batiste honored the artists he beat. “The artistic arts are subjective,” he mentioned. “Be you.”
The multi-genre performer additionally received for his track “Cry,” the video for “Freedom” and his work with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the soundtrack for “Soul.”
“I simply put my head down and I work on the craft each day. I really like music,” he mentioned.
Supergroup success
The R&B supergroup Silk Sonic took residence awards in all 4 classes it was nominated in, together with file of the yr.
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak had been exuberant as they accepted the honour towards the top of the ceremony. The win places Mars in historic firm once more: He turns into the one artist together with Paul Simon to take residence the award 3 times.
“We're actually attempting our hardest to stay humble at this level,” .Paak mentioned. “However within the trade, they name that a clear sweep!” later including “drinks is on Silk Sonic tonight!”
Ukraine not forgotten on the Grammys
The win got here after the night time's festivities grew grim when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the gathering with an replace on the conflict and his numbers included youngsters injured and killed. “Our musicians put on physique armor as an alternative of tuxedos,” he mentioned. “We're combating Russia, which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The useless silence. Fill the silence along with your music.”
He ended by saying: "Inform the reality concerning the conflict in your social networks, on TV. Assist us in any means you'll be able to any, however not silence. After which peace will come to all our cities.”
John Legend then carried out “Free” with Ukrainian exiles together with singer-actress Mika Newton and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk.
Olivia Rodrigo topped
Rodrigo’s received for greatest new artist put her in esteemed firm together with Carly Simon, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Tom Jones, the Beatles and Billie Eilish.
A veteran of the “Excessive College Musical” sequence, she turned the breakout music star of 2021, main along with her large viral hit “Drivers License” and following with the only “Good 4 U” and the aching album “Bitter,” which took greatest pop vocal album.
“That is my largest dream come true,” she mentioned after her greatest new artist win. She thanked her mother and father for supporting her desires, which at one level concerned being an Olympic gymnast and rapidly veered towards music.
“I need to thank my mother for being so supportive for all of my desires, regardless of how loopy. I need to thank my mother and pa for being equally as pleased with me for profitable a Grammy as they had been once I realized find out how to do a again stroll.”
Silk Sonic opened the Grammys in Las Vegas with their high-energy, infectious repair of retro soul and funk by performing their “777.” They returned to the stage a short while later to gather the track of the yr trophy for “Depart the Door Open.”
The win helps Mars tie the file for many track of the yr wins. He had beforehand received for “24K Magic.”
Each Mars and .Paak jumped out their seat, threw up their fingers and danced to their track.
“We’ll be singing this track collectively for the remainder of our lives,” Mars mentioned to .Paak
Host Trevor Noah launched the duo’s opening efficiency by saying they had been singlehandedly bringing again the Seventies, “which could clarify the inflation.”
It was a household affair from cousins Child Keem and Kendrick Lamar, who received greatest rap efficiency for his or her track “Household Ties.” Lamar received his 14th Grammy and the primary for Keem, who mentioned “nothing might have ready me for this second” after stepping out onstage to assert his trophy.
Chris Stapleton received his third Grammy for greatest nation solo efficiency for “You Ought to In all probability Depart.”
Tony Bennett prolonged his file because the artist with essentially the most conventional pop vocal album with 14 wins with “Love for Sale,” a duet album with Woman Gaga.
Wearing all black, BTS took the stage with a flirty second between V and Rodrigo earlier than the group carried out their hit single “Butter.” The made an look after one of many members examined constructive for COVID-19. All seven of the members – Jin, Jimin, V, RM, J-Hope, Suga and Jungkook – acted as in the event that they had been secret brokers with neon-blue lasers, dancing with easy choreography earlier than going into a short rap portion of the track.
Hawkins tribute
Foo Fighters received three awards Sunday, however weren't in attendance to choose up their trophies following the current loss of life of its drummer Taylor Hawkins. An prolonged tribute to Hawkins performed earlier than the present's In Memoriam phase honoring artists and music trade figures who've died.
Eilish paid homage to Hawkins throughout her efficiency by sporting a black T-shirt together with his picture. She stepped onstage in an upside-down home alongside along with her brother Finneas earlier than moving into the rain to carry out the title monitor from her “Happier Than Ever.”
Popping out
TJ Osborne, who got here out as homosexual final yr, fought again tears as he and his brother accepted a Grammy for the Brothers Osborne track “Youthful Me.” He famous the track was impressed by his popping out.
“I by no means thought that I'd be capable of do music professionally due to my sexuality. And I actually by no means thought I'd be right here on the stage accepting a Grammy after having completed one thing I felt like was going to be life altering and probably in a really unfavorable means,” Osborne mentioned.
“And right here I'm tonight, not solely accepting this Grammy Award with my brother, which I really like a lot, however I’m right here with a person that I really like and he loves me again. ... I don’t know what I did be so fortunate.”
The ceremony shifted from Los Angeles to Las Vegas due to rising COVID-19 instances and the omicron variant in January, with organizers citing “too many dangers.”
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