Adele wins virtually all the top honours at he 2017 Grammy Awards. The British singer won five Grammys on the night-Album of the Year for 25 and Song, Record of the Year for “Hello”, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance but the night belong to Beyonce even though she won two awards- Best Music Video for “Formation” and Best Urban Contemporary Album for Lemonade.
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Beyonce transformed the Grammy Awards into the greatest baby shower of all time, when Beyonce took the stage Sunday pregnant with twins — and once again proved herself peerless as a live performer.
Beyonce performed “Love Drought,” a dreamy ballad about calling a truce in a relationship plagued by betrayal, and “Sandcastles,” about the inability to walk away from true love.
Before she sang a single note, the star read a spoken-word poem against a video backdrop.It was the kind of video-art set she sampled at last year’s Tidal streaming concert in Brooklyn. The segment imagined Beyonce as many do — as a goddess, bejeweled in an elaborate crown wrapped in gauze.
One by one, on a massive screen wrapping the far wall of Los Angeles’ Staples Center, women in similar crowns surrounded Beyonce, echoing the political and prideful celebration of black womanhood that runs through the center of “Lemonade.”
Adele become the first artist ever to run the table with the top three awards in the same year two different times. Chance the Rapper also had an unforgettable night after winning the Best New Artist, Best Rap Album for Coloring Book and Best Rap Performance for “No Problem” feat. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz.
David Bowie also picked up five awards — surprisingly, his first music-related Grammys ever. Adele has not lost a Grammy she has been nominated for since 2010 and has earned 15 so far in her career, including all of the big four categories (she won Best New Artist in 2009). In her teary acceptance speech for Album of the Year, she spent much of it thanking Beyoncé and describing Lemonade as “monumental” and deserving of the prize.
Tribute was paid to Prince by Bruno Mars with his performance of “Let’s Go Crazy” and by Morris Day and The Time, referencing the film Purple Rain by performing “Jungle Love” — complete with a quick check of a mirror, as made famous in the film — and “The Bird”. Adele paid tribute to George Michael with with a performance of his song “Fastlove.
Politically laden messages were not left out as expected. A Tribe Called Quest, after dedicating their set to the late Phife Dawg, brought out Busta Rhymes and Consequence for the politically-charged “We the People” — Busta sarcastically thanked “President Agent Orange” — that sent a powerful message and closed with Q-Tip shouting, “RESIST!”
With 17 performances, the show was just shy of four hours. Below is the full list of winners
Album Of The Year
Adele, 25
Song Of The Year
Adele, “Hello”
Best Rap Album
Chance The Rapper, Coloring Book
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Beyoncé, Lemonade
Best Country Solo Performance
Maren Morris, “My Church”
Best Rock Song
David Bowie, “Blackstar”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out”
Best New Artist
Chance The Rapper
Best Music Video
Beyoncé, “Formation”
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Flume, Skin
Best Country Album
Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
Best R&B Performance
Solange, “Cranes In The Sky”
Best R&B Song
Maxwell, “Lake By The Ocean”
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Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Greg Kurstin
Best Pop Vocal Album
Adele, 25
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Willie Nelson, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Best Pop Solo Performance
Adele, “Hello”
Best Musical Theater Album
The Color Purple
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
Miles Ahead (Miles Davis and various artists)
Best Metal Performance
Megadeth, “Dystopia”
Best Rap Song
Drake, “Hotline Bling”
Best Rap/Sung Performance
Drake, “Hotline Bling”
Best Rap Performance
Chance the Rapper, “No Problem” [featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz]
Best R&B Album
Lalah Hathaway – Lalah Hathaway Live
Best Comedy Album
Patton Oswalt, Talking for Clapping
Best Reggae Album
Ziggy Marley, Ziggy Marley
Best Regional Roots Music Album
Kalani Pe’a, E Walea
Best Folk Album
Sarah Jarosz, Undercurrent
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Fantastic Negrito, The Last Days of Oakland
Best Traditional Blues Album
Bobby Rush, Porcupine Meat
Best Bluegrass Album
O’Connor Band With Mark O’Connor, Coming Home
Best Americana Album
William Bell, This Is Where I Live
Best American Roots Song
Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time Jumpers), “Kid Sister”
Best American Roots Performance
Sarah Jarosz, “House of Mercy”
Best Tropical Latin Album
Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo, Donde Están?
Best Regional Mexican Music Album
Vicente Fernández – Un Azteca En El Azteca, Vol. 1 (En Vivo)
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
iLe, iLevitable
Best Latin Pop Album
Jesse & Joy, Un Besito Mas
Best Country Album
Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Best Country Song
Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw) – “Humble and Kind”
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Pentatonix – “Jolene” [featuring Dolly Parton]
Best Roots Gospel Album
Joey+Rory – Hymns
Best Latin Jazz Album
Chucho Valdés, Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Ted Nash Big Band, Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
John Scofield, Country for Old Men
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
John Scofield, soloist, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
Contemporary Instrumental
Snarky Puppy, Culcha Vulcha
Best Dance Recording
The Chainsmokers, “Don’t Let Me Down” [ft. Daya]
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist – Schmann & Berg (tie)
Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker), Shakespeare Songs (tie)
Best Classical Compendium
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer – Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony) – Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Steve Reich
Best Choral Performance
Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir) – Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1
Best Opera Recording
James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus) – Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles
Best Orchestra Performance
Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) – Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
