American singer Beyoncé became the most awarded artist in the history of the Grammys, the American music awards, on the night from Sunday to Monday. The 41-year-old singer, who released her album last year Renaissance released, won four awards at the ceremony in Los Angeles. This brought her total number of Grammys to 32.
The old record of 31 Grammys was held by Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti. That record was 26 years old. British singer Harry Styles won Album of the Year, the main award of the night, for his album Harry’s House. He won a total of three awards.
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“I try not to be too emotional,” Beyoncé said when she accepted her 32nd Grammy. The singer from Texas, who had nine nominations, won best R&B song for Cuff Itdance electric recording for Break My Soultraditional R&B rendition for Plastic Off the Sofa and dance-electric album for it Renaissance.
American singer Lizzo won the important Record of the Year award for the song About Damn Time. Lizzo, 34, also reflected on Beyoncé’s achievement: “You changed my life,” she said while receiving her award, telling how she used to play truant to go to a Beyoncé concert.
Organ donors
The 73-year-old American blues singer Bonnie Raitt trumped pop greats Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and Lizzo for the best song of the year award with her ballad Just Like That. The song was inspired by organ donors.
Earlier in the day, American actress Viola Davis won a Grammy in the Best Audio Book category for her memoir narration Finding Me. With this she achieved the so-called ‘EGOT’ status: she has won the television award Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a stage award Tony. The 57-year-old Davis is the eighteenth artist who can boast of that achievement; Whoopi Goldberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson, among others, preceded her.
The Dutch Metropole Orkest missed out on a prize in the Best Worldwide Music Album category for the album Between Us…, which was co-produced with Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar. The Metropole Orchestra has previously won four Grammys, most recently in 2020.