NEW YORK (AP) – Beyoncé and Taylor Swift had a historic night at the Grammys, where the top four awards were won by women’s awards.
Swift became the first female artist to win the album of the year three times, and Beyoncé became the most decorated woman in Grammy history with her 28th victory. She also beats Quincy Jones for second place among all Grammy winners.
HER won the song of the year and Billie Eilish picked up an album of the year and told the audience that best new artist winner Megan Thee Stallion deserves the honor.
Although women have won all the top four awards in the past – including the Eilish auction last year – it was the first time that four separate and solo women won the top four honors.
“We just want to thank the fans,” said Swift, who won the top prize with “folklore.” and previously won the album of the year with her albums “Fearless” and “1989.”
Beyoncé entered the show with 24 wins and four accolades, including best R&B performance for ‘Black Parade’, best music video for ‘Brown Skin Girl’ as well as best rap performance and best rap song for ‘ Savage ‘, with Megan U stallion.
“As an artist, I believe it’s my job and all our job to reflect time and it was such a difficult time,” Beyoncé said on stage as she won the best R&B performance for ‘Black Parade’. , which was released on Juneteenth.
She further said that she created the song to honor the “beautiful black kings and queens” in the world.
She added: “I work all my life … It’s such a magical night.”
Beyoncé is just behind the late conductor Georg Solti, who is the decorated Grammy winner with 31 victories.
But Beyoncé made not just history, but her whole family. The royal music family won all the honors on Sunday: Jay-Z grabbed his 23rd Grammy and shared the best rap song with his wife since writing ‘Savage’ together. And 9-year-old Blue Ivy Carter – who won the best music video with her mother – became the second youngest actor to win a Grammy in the show’s 63-year history. Leah Peasall was 8 when The Peasall Sisters won Album of the Year at the 2002 show for their appearance in the T Bone Burnett-produced “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack.
Megan Thee Stallion, who won three honors, also made history and became the first female rapper to win the best rap song. She is also the fifth rap-based actor to have conquered the best new artist.
Beyoncé was the night’s best competitor with nine nominations. She did not act, but Swift did.
She sang ‘cardigan’ and ‘august’ from ‘folklore’, as well as ‘willow’ from ‘evermore’, and is with the collaborators who helped her make the albums, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, who both made the album of the year with Swift.
Silk Sonic, also known as Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak, also performed and they brought a return of R&B to the show with their sleek new single, “Leave the Door Open.” Dua Lipa, who won Best Pop-Vocal Album, proved her pop star status by performing her hits “Don’t Start Now” and “Levitating”, where she teamed up with DaBaby, who performed an star was performing his rap hit “Rockstar” on guitar, playing the song for an exceptionally live version featuring R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, a skilled violinist and background singer.
Country singer Mickey Guyton – the first black woman to be nominated for Best Country Solo Performance – delivered an impressive rendition of her song “Black Like Me”, which she released last year, while the cruelty of the police continued to destroy black families and the coronavirus plagued black America excessively. Lil Baby, along with Killer Mike and activist Tamika Mallory, delivered an impressive political performance.
“Black Parade” joined a list of songs in honor of the Black experience won on Sunday, including HER’s protest song “I Can’t Breathe” and Anderson Paak’s “Lockdown”, which was released on Juneteenth as “Black Parade”.
Other artists on Sunday included Billie Eilish, Cardi B, Bad Bunny, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris and Harry Styles, who won the best pop solo performance for the hit “Watermelon Sugar”.
“Thank you to everyone who made this record with me,” said Styles, the first member of One Direction to win a Grammy.
Host Trevor Noah kicked from the program tells jokes about the coronavirus pandemic and the year that was in 2020. He was straight from downtown Los Angeles, with participants wearing masks and sitting comfortably at small round tables.
Double winners were HER, Fiona Apple, Kaytranada and late artists John Prine and Chick Corea.
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