The 18-year-old won five Grammys, including record of the year and best new artist, at a ceremony in which Kobe Bryant, who died on Sunday, was mourned.Eilish, an 18-year-old auteur with a moody and idiosyncratic aesthetic, won five awards, including the four most prestigious and competitive prizes — album, record and song of the year, and best new artist. “You guys make this worth it.”Finneas O’Connell, her brother, accepting with her for song of the year, noted that they record together in a bedroom in their family home.
)And near the end came a recreation of the ensemble song “I Sing the Body Electric” from the 1980 movie “Fame.” Ehrlich, the producer, began his association with the show that year, and this year is to be his farewell.Billie Eilish shared the Grammy for song of the year with her brother, Finneas O’Connell.Lizzo performing “Truth Hurts” at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards.Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Deborah Dugan, the chief executive of the Recording Academy, was on the job for five months before being placed on administrative leave.Tyler, the Creator performed a two-song segment that also featured Boyz II Men and the R&B singer Charlie Wilson. “This is to all the kids that are making music in their bedroom today,” he said, holding the trophy. Billie Eilish takes home 2020 Record Of The Year for "Bad Guy" at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards. Finneas Reveals Everyday Sounds Hidden in "Bury a Friend" and "Bad Guy" - Duration: 6:24. After Tyler, the Creator won best rap album for “Igor,” an ambitious and genre-defying album, he said he was grateful for the honor but that the categorizing of his music as rap still felt like a “backhanded compliment.”“Whenever we — and I mean guys that look like me — do anything that’s genre-bending or anything, they always put it in a rap or urban category,” Tyler said backstage. He called the decision a “bold move.” Earlier this month after receiving his best actor win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, he headed over to a pig vigil in Los Angeles, calling pig slaughter an “injustice.”By signing up you agree to receive emails from LIVEKINDLY and accept our terms of use and privacy & cookie policy.Write CSS OR LESS and hit save.
Billie Eilish Sweeps Top Awards at the Grammys The 18-year-old won five Grammys, including record of the year and best new artist, at a ceremony in … Facebook. The outspoken teen is vocal about age, gender, and animal rights issues. ... "One of the only goals we had with it was that we wanted to make an album that we love playing live because we tour so much," FINNEAS added. Harvey Mason Jr., the chairman and interim chief of the Recording Academy, called for 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.Beyoncé’s concert special “Homecoming” won best music film, while Michelle Obama won best spoken word album for the audio version of her book “Becoming.” Neither was present to accept.
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For “New Magic Wand,” Tyler shifted into a surrealistic scene in which a troupe of dancers — all dressed like him, in asymmetric suits and platinum pageboy wigs — walked to the stage and moshed violently as Tyler screamed with distortion, a set of picturesque homes burning down behind him.As Bryant’s fans mourned him and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, who also died in the helicopter crash, the father-daughter relationship found poignant expression in Camila Cabello’s song “First Man.” First singing it while home videos showed her as a young girl with her father, Alejandro, Cabello then walked to him in the front row, serenading him as he dabbed away tears.Eilish, whose debut album is filled with creeping noises, booming electronics and dentist’s drills, performed her song “When the Party’s Over” in the most Grammy format of all — a delicate piano ballad, played with her brother.The Spanish singer Rosalía performed her songs “Juro Que” and “Malamente” with a mixture of flamenco touches — acoustic guitar and claps — and booming beats and hip-hop dance moves.Ariana Grande, who did not perform last year after a public clash with the show’s producer, Ken Ehrlich, put on an elaborate segment. So thank you, thank you, thank you.” Hussle was celebrated during the telecast in a performance segment, and “Higher” by DJ Khaled, Hussle and John Legend won best rap/sung performance.This year’s event, featuring a fresh crop of stars competing for the top awards., was supposed to represent “a new era for the Recording Academy,” one that would be more attuned to pop’s current pulse after years of bruising criticism over the Grammys’ poor record in recognizing women and artists of color in the major categories.That “new era” statement was made just two months ago, when Dugan claimed in a 44-page complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that she had been Accepting an award at Clive Davis’s glamorous annual pre-Grammys party, the hip-hop mogul Diddy avoided mentioning Dugan by name but criticized the academy for its failure to recognize hip-hop artists of color in the top categories.