Some of the Recording Academy's more tone-deaf choices may be attributable to how the voting is intrinsically structured. (For most categories, any recording can be submitted for nomination in a few, however, those committees decide which five recordings should be nominated.) I was a Grammy voter for quite a few years, and a member of what is now called a "special nominating committee" for one of the specialized categories of certain Grammy awards. Wild swings between what's comfortable and what's actually artistically current - or even forward-looking - are familiar to longtime Grammy voters and observers, myself included. The prize for Best Album Notes generally goes to a music scholar or critic this year, the winner was singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, for her notes for her multi-disciplinary project Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, which includes 53 songs, a book of poetry and autobiographical writings, as well as reproductions of six of her paintings. The group also teamed up with legend Stevie Wonder during the telecast for a a tribute to the late Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire, who died earlier this month. Pentatonix - the vocal group who surpassed 1 billion YouTube views in 2015 - took home the award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella for their version of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy," from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.
THE GRAMMY AWARDS 2016 WINNERS FULL
Former president Jimmy Carter won the ungainly titled Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling) for his project A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. Meanwhile, drummer and bandleader Antonio Sanchez, who was denied an opportunity to win an Oscar last year for Best Original Score after his work for the film Birdman was declared ineligible, was awarded Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. D'Angelo, whose 2014 album Black Messiah marked his return after a 14-year hiatus from recording, won Best R&B Album and Best R&B Song for "Really Love." Chris Stapleton won Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance for Traveller. Singer The Weeknd won two awards, for Best Urban Contemporary Album ( Beauty Behind the Madness) and best R&B performance for "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)." Pop singer/songwriter Meghan Trainor was named Best New Artist.īest Dance Recording went to Skrillex and Diplo's "Where Are Ü Now," featuring Justin Bieber the duo also won Best Dance/Electronic Album for Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü. Other winners included the band Alabama Shakes, who won both Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance for their song "Don't Wanna Fight," while its album Sound & Color won Best Alternative Music Album. Kendrick Lamar also gave electrifying performances of his songs "The Blacker the Berry" and "Alright" together, the Lamar and Hamilton performances were the soul and fire of the telecast. The show's cast performed Hamilton's opening number from the stage of the Richard Rodgers theater in Manhattan.
It went to the rap-fueled musical Hamilton, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who rapped his acceptance speech. Hip-hop also took center stage in the win for Best Musical Theater Album, an award not usually presented during the evening telecast. "These Walls," featuring Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat, won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration the fifth Grammy was for his video collaboration with Swift, on her song "Bad Blood." His album To Pimp a Butterfly won the first award presented on the telecast, Best Rap Album, while his song "Alright" won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. Rapper Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during the 58th Grammy Awards.īut although Lamar didn't leave the ceremony with any of the Recording Academy's "big four" prizes (Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year or Best New Artist), he did go home with five statues.
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