“We’ve shattered the glass ceiling together, “Young stated when accepting the award.” I happily accept this on behalf of all female producers who have actually been neglected.”
Tanya Tucker, the 61-year-old country singer, won the first Grammys of her career, taking finest country album for “While I’m Livin’,” her very first release in a decade, and best nation tune for “Bring My Flowers Now.”
Gary Clark Jr., a guitarist loved by critics and rock and blues purists, won three awards. His album “This Land” took best contemporary blues album, while the title track from that release won best rock tune and finest rock efficiency.
Nipsey Hussle, the rap artist who died last March at 33, won his first Grammy for “Racks in the Middle,” which took finest rap efficiency. Relative spoke, including his granny, who stated: “I desired to thank all of you for revealing all the love that I have felt for him all of his life and will always live in my heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Hussle is to be celebrated throughout the telecast in an efficiency segment arranged to consist of Kirk Franklin, DJ Khaled, John Legend, Meek Mill, Roddy Ricch and YG.
News of Kobe Bryant’s death stuns the Grammys. In the lead-up to the televised show Sunday afternoon, the news that Kobe Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash at 41 led to gasps in the press space. The Grammys happen at the Staples Center, where Bryant played nearly his whole career with the Los Angeles Lakers; championship banners he helped the group win hang from the building’s rafters.
“In Staples Arena, where Kobe developed a lot of memories for all of us, preparing to pay tribute to another fantastic guy we lost prematurely, Nipsey Hussle,” John Legend composed on Twitter.”Life can be so ruthless and ridiculous sometimes.”Flags outside the arena were decreased to half-staff as preparations for the event continued, and lights shined on Bryant’s jerseys inside. Harvey Mason Jr., the chairman and interim chief of the Recording Academy, required a moment of silence.
” Since we are in his house, I would ask you to join me in a moment of silence, “Mason said, The Associated Press reported.
Beyond the Grammy glitz, a fight is raving behind the scenes. Extreme drama hangs over the 62nd annual Grammy Awards event on Sunday night, but not in manner ins which the Recording Academy, the nonprofit behind the program
, would like. This year’s event, which will be transmitted live on CBS at 8 p.m. Eastern, includes a fresh crop of stars like Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande contending for the top awards. It was supposed to represent “a new period for the Recording Academy,” one that would be more attuned to pop’s present pulse after years of bruising criticism over the Grammys’ bad record in acknowledging females and artists of color in the significant classifications.
That “new period” statement was made just two months back, when nominations were revealed, by Deborah Dugan, the academy’s brand-new president. She had actually been telegraphed as the vibrant new leader the Grammys needed, and came equipped with an unsparing critique of the academy’s record on variety by Michelle Obama’s previous chief of staff, the Time’s Up leader Tina Tchen.
But just 10 days back, Dugan was eliminated from her position, stunning the market and plunging the generally uplifting pre-Grammy week into mudslinging and turmoil that has actually threatened to overshadow the occasion itself.
He added:”You’ve got 365 days’ notification to get this [curse] together.”
Lizzo leads a crop of young candidates. For music fans, the Grammys are a tv show about splashy performances and, oh yes, a handful of awards spread across 3 and a half hours. There might be no mention at all of the academy’s behind-the-scenes crisis.
The greatest contests this year feature some of pop’s most dynamic young faces, a lot of whom went from obscurity to mega-stardom over the previous year.
Lizzo, a charismatic and outspoken pop and R&B vocalist who has captivated critics and fans alike, is this year’s most chosen artist, with 8 nods. She and the 18-year-old alternative dynamo Billie Eilish, who has a total of 6 elections, are each up in all 4 top categories– album, record and tune of the year, and finest new artist.
Lil Nas X, the web meme virtuoso whose Other huge competitors consist of Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey, Bon Iver and Vampire Weekend. Taylor Swift is up for just one major award: song of the year for “Lover.”
Big names will perform, but Taylor Swift is no longer among them. At the music industry’s schmoozy pre-Grammy parties last week in Los Angeles, the expert chatter has actually all had to do with Dugan versus the academy. For the a lot of part, the events have been service as typical. Few people expect the show to be impacted.
Still, a leading artist signaling a position on Dugan’s claims could change the conversation completely. Label executives and publicists have actually been wringing their hands over what their artists might be asked– and what they might state– on the red carpet or onstage. And while the lineup of entertainers seems consistent, the market was riveted on Friday with reports that Swift would not appear. However why? Was Swift– always an outspoken backer of women– leaving in demonstration, or was she withdrawn or simply unprepared? Everybody, including fans and the most powerful people in music, was delegated guess.
The efficiencies prepared for the program consist of tributes to Prince and the rapper Nipsey Hussle; an “Old Town Road All-Stars” section with Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus, BTS, Diplo and Mason Ramsey, the so-called
The manufacturer who shaped 40 years of Grammy reveals states goodbye. This year’s program will be the last for Ken Ehrlich, who has actually produced the Grammys telecast since 1980 and is largely responsible for the show’s signature discussion style– the “Grammy minutes” strategy of pairing artists together for unique appearances, returning to Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand doing “ You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”40 years back. Ehrlich has lived– and rushed– through a few of the Grammys’ most strange moments, like the “soy bomb” dancer crashing Bob Dylan’s performance in 1998. He has actually likewise regularly been the target of criticism that the program runs out touch and too typically favors late-career stars at the expense of more youthful faces and more present nominees. Exhibit A: the 2018 program’s prevalence of Sting and lack of Lorde, who had been up for album of the year.
Ehrlich has always stated that his mandate is to place on a diverse and imaginative program, not merely to parade the current candidates. Audiences may consider that this year when he provides his swan song, a recreation of the ensemble efficiency of “
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