Towards the end of the Grammy ceremony, which was held tonight (between Sunday and Monday) in Los Angeles, producer Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy that is responsible for the Grammy Awards, took the stage with a moving tribute to the victims of the Hamas massacre at the Nova Festival.
"Music must be Always our safe space," he said. "When that thing is violated, it hurts the heart of who we are.
We felt it at the Taklan concert hall in Paris.
We felt it in Manchester Arena in England.
We felt it at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.
And on October 7, we felt that again when we heard the tragic news from the 'Supernova for Love' music festival, that over 360 music fans lost their lives, and another 40 were kidnapped." "Let's all
agree that music must remain the common ground on which we all stand together in peace and harmony," He added. "Because music has always been one of the great authors of mankind.
Think about it: every song we honor or hear tonight touched someone, no matter where they came from or what they believed.
It connected them to others who were moved in the same way."
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Producer Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, which is responsible for the Grammy Awards, with Taylor Swift, 2024 Grammys/GettyImages, Monica Schipper/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
As he spoke, a string quartet played beneath him, to which Mason Jr. commented: "Individually, they sound really good, but together, they accomplish something beautiful that they could never do individually," he said.
"These musicians of Palestinian, Israeli and Arab origin play here together. Now is the time for us, for humanity, to play together and unite in empathy and love."
In the audience were a number of artists and celebrities who wore the kidnappers pin, including the actress Jay Smith-Cameron (Jeri from "The Heirs") and the actor John Ortiz (the villain Arturo Braga from the "Fast and Furious" movies).
The biggest tribute of all was from influencer and creator Montana Tucker, who has 9 million followers on TikTok and 3.1 million on Instagram.
She arrived with a dress designed entirely in the image of the kidnappers' brooch, in screaming support of the victims of the barbaric massacre by Hamas.
Even before October 7, Tucker, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, used her platform to explain and educate about the Holocaust of European Jews and against anti-Semitism.
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The influencer and creator Montana Tucker in a dress that pays tribute to the Israeli abductees and Hamas victims, on the red carpet at the 2024 Grammy ceremony/GettyImages, Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
In the meantime, about twenty pro-Palestinian demonstrators demonstrated outside the hall in the pouring rain when the invitees arrived at the event, and even blocked the road to prevent passage.
The demonstrators also protested the American attack on the Houthis in Yemen.
On stage, Annie Lennox appeared during the ceremony with a performance of "Nothing Compares 2 U", at the end of which she shouted "Artists for a ceasefire! Peace in the world!".
The edited and translated Grammy ceremony will be broadcast tonight (Monday) at 21:00 Bis TV Drama.
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