All-out surprises at the Grammys.
With 'Harry's House', Harry Styles won the Grammy for album of the year.
The prize is the most prestigious among those, awarded by the Recording Academy, which are considered the Oscar of music.
Jazz singer Samara Joy won the Grammy for Best New Artist of the Year leaving
Måneskin dry-mouthed
.
The Roman band was considered among the favorites among the ten candidates for the award, one of the four most important of the evening.
The other two notable awards went to Lizzo for Recording of the Year ('About Damn Time') and, surprisingly again, to 73-year-old Bonnie Raitt for writing Song of the Year: 'Just Like That' and' a traditional folk tune about a heart transplant.
Adele
won in the Best Pop Performance category for 'Easy on Me'.
For
Beyoncé
, sitting among the VIPs of the Crypto.com Arena (the former Staples Center) transformed into a bistro, it was a bittersweet evening: with three victories even before the live broadcast from Los Angeles began and another two during the broadcast cbs,
Queen B confirmed herself as the queen of the Grammys by conquering 32 awards throughout her career
, one more than the previous record held to date by the conductor Georg Solti, who died in 1997. The singer of 'Renaissance' is but was excluded, for the umpteenth time, from the most important awards.
It is the fourth time that Beyonce has lost the album of the year and the marginalization of her, today as in the past, has caused controversy.
After all, as Lizzo said paying homage to her from the stage, "she is the artist of our time".
Viola Davis
, with the audio-book of her memoir 'Finding Me', has entered the exclusive club of Egot, the winners of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
The 2023 awards paid homage with Questlove's 12-minute tribute to hip hop, a genre so far considered by many to have been overlooked at the Grammys and which is celebrating its first half-century this year.
'Baraye', the anthem of protests in Iran, won the first Grammy for the song that inspires social change in the world.
This was announced by US First Lady Jill Biden.
The author, 25-year-old Shervin Hajipour, was relatively unknown when he was eliminated from the Iranian version of American Idol.
His song has become a symbol of the protests of recent months in Iran evoking feelings of pain, anger, hope and desire for change.
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