Beyoncé upon receiving her Grammy, this Sunday at the Los Angeles Convention Center (California) .CLIFF LIPSON / AFP
On the first anniversary of a year without concerts, the 63rd Grammy Awards managed to be a historic gala.
Beyoncé broke the record for the female artist with the most accolades on Sunday after winning the award for best R&B performance for
Black Parade
, the song she released on the day of the emancipation of blacks enslaved in the heat of racial protests in the United States.
With that award, the fourth of the night for the diva, she surpassed the 27 Grammys of the bluegrass singer, Alison Krauss.
Taylor Swift won - for the third time in her career - the award for best album with Folklore, produced entirely during the quarantine.
And Billie Eilish, the queen of the previous edition, took home the award for best song for her
Everything I Wanted.
The organizers wanted to avoid at all costs that the ceremony had a whiff of the virtual awards forced by the pandemic.
They almost made it.
Harry Styles making Billie Eillish dance to his song
Watermelon Sugar
, which would later
earn
him his first Grammy for best pop solo performance, was a refreshing scene.
The same when seeing Bad Bunny, awarded with the best Latin album by YHLQMDLG, singing to the rhythm of
Don't Start Now
, while Dua Lipa did his magic on stage.
The young Englishwoman later took home the Grammy for best vocal pop album for Future Nostalgia, crowning her swift immersion on the global music scene.
The ceremony had live performances and other recorded ones.
The presenter Trevor Noah, with enough grace and fluidity, managed that the abrupt costumes and scenarios were not so serious.
Beyoncé hasn't had a major Grammys category win since 2010. The two best Beyoncé albums of her career, the namesake
Beyoncé
and
Lemonade
, didn't win the gold gramophone.
This year, she arrived at the ceremony topping the list of nominations - led by women - with nine nominations.
When she took the stage to receive the award for Black Parade, visibly moved, she dedicated it to her nine-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.
The little girl won a Grammy for best music video for
Brown Skin Girl,
an accolade shared with her mother.
"This is so overwhelming, I have been working my whole life, since I was nine years old, I cannot believe this has happened, it is a magical night," said the popularly known as Queen BHER took the song of the year for
I Can't Breathe,
also inspired by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police.
The throne of the night was scheduled to be contested by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.
Although the second did not sweep, she did experience an important milestone in her career: she became the first female singer and songwriter to win the best album award three times, after her victories for Fearless in 2010 and 1989 in 2016. With this feat , the 31-year-old artist tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon as the only artists with three Grammys for best album.
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