The 2023 Grammy Awards took place yesterday into this morning in a ceremony that saw awards spread around among several artists and of course Trevor Noah as the host.
Nigerian music sensation Tems has earned her first Grammy award for her contribution to Future’s hit single ‘Wait For U’ which won the award for Best Melodic rap performance beating ‘Beautiful’ by DJ Khaled Featuring Future & SZA, ‘First Class’ by Jack Harlow, ‘Die Hard’ by Kendrick Lamar Featuring Blxst & Amanda Reifer, and ‘Big Energy (Live)’ by Latto.
Tems’ vocals were sampled on the single ‘Wait For U’ a song that also features Canadian superstar rapper Drake.
The African giant, Burna Boy was also nominated for Best Global Song performance with ‘Last Last’ and Best Global Album with ‘Love Damini’.
He however lost the Best Global Song category to ‘Bayethe’ by Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini & Nomcebo Zikode, and Best Global album category to ‘Sakura’ by Masa Takumi.
The 65th annual Grammy awards also featured Beyonce’s official crowning as the queen of the Grammys, with the most wins of all time as she took home the following awards, Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for ‘Renaissance’, Best Traditional R&B Performance for ‘Plastic Off the Sofa’, Best Dance/Electronica Recording for ‘Break My Soul’, and Best R&B song for ‘Cuff It’, making it her 32nd Grammy award and surpassing late composer Georg Solti in all-time wins.
Other big winners of the night include Kendrick Lamar who won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for ‘The Heart Part 5’ and Best Rap Album for Mr Morale and The Big Steppers.
Harry Styles won Album of the Year for ‘Harry’s House’, Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’ won Record of the Year, while Samara Joy won Best New Artiste.
Adele’s ‘Easy On Me’ won in the Best Pop Solo Performance category, and the Best Music Video category went to Taylor Swift for ‘All Too Well: The Short Film’.
One of the big performances of the night celebrated the upcoming 50th anniversary of hip-hop, as it featured Run-DMC, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Salt-N-Pepa, Flava Flav, Queen Latifah, Big Boi of Outkast, Missy Elliott and more.
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