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62nd ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS (2019)

You have heard about many awards like Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, etc. Awards are given for encouraging the astonishing thing anybody does in a particular time. How many of you know that to recognize achievements in the music industry they give an award named Grammy Award?

A Grammy Award originally called Gramophone Award. The Grammy's are the first and biggest award of the Big Three networks' major music awards. The General Field are the four awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist. But there are yet other awards. Among all, let me tell you the recent achievements.

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American singer and songwriter. In 2020, she performed the theme song “No Time to Die” for the James Bond film that became her first to peak at number one in the UK. Her accolades include 5 Grammy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 2 Guinness World Records, 3 MTV Video Music Awards and 1 Brit Awards.

She is the youngest person and second person ever to win the four main Grammy categories:

  • Record of the year for “Bad Guy”,

  • Album of the year for “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”,

  • Song of the year for “Bad Guy”, and

  • Best New Artist.

Additionally, Best Pop Vocal Album for “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” in the same year. Eilish is the 23rd biggest artist of the digital singles era, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, selling 37.5 million singles in the US alone.

Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress and filmmaker. As a featured artist, Beyoncé topped the Billboard Hot 100 with the remixes of “Savage” by “Megan Thee Stallion” in 2020. Beyoncé is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 100 million records worldwide.

Beyoncé is the most nominated woman in the Grammy Awards history, with 24 wins. She is also the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, with 24 wins, including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. In 2020, she won the Best Music Film Grammy Award for the Film, Homecoming.

Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Beninese singer-songwriter, actress, and activist of Nigerian descent for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

In 2007, Time magazine called her "Africa's premier diva". Kidjo won the Grammy Award for "Best World Music Album" for CELIA on January 27, 2020.

Jacob Collier

Jacob Collier is an English musician. His music incorporates elements from many musical genres and often features extreme use of re-harmonization.

In 2020, Collier won Grammy Awards for his Best Arrangements, Instruments, and Vocals of “All Night Long” from Djesse Vol. 1 and “Moon River” from Djesse Vol. 2, respectively. The third volume, Djesse Vol. 3, which Collier describes as based on electronic sounds, has a release date of 14 August 2020.

Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who was the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She married the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. She was the first African-American first lady.

As the first lady, Obama served as a role model for women and worked as an advocate for poverty, awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She supported American designers and a fashion icon. In 2020, she won the Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling) in the Grammy Award for the book, “Becoming”.

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