(Los Angeles) Will Beyoncé finally win the major award for best album of the year and take her revenge on Adele? The cream of the music industry began to walk the red carpet of the 65 on Sundaye Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
The 41-year-old American singer arrived stronger than ever with nine nominations this year, after the release of her album Renaissanceopus with dance, house and disco accents.
And she started making history right from the pre-ceremony, winning two first Grammys, for best dance/electronic recording, with her hit break my soul and for Best Traditional R&B Performance (Plastic off the couch).
With 30 gramophones obtained since the beginning of her career, “Queen B” was therefore, before the start of the big ceremony, only one Grammy away from the historic record of awards held by conductor Georg Solti (31 ).
But Britain’s Adele, with her introspective album 30has seven nominations, and could once again win the equivalent of the Oscars for music in the United States.
Beyoncé vs Adele: Revenge
In 2017, the interpreter ofHello had thus crushed its competitors in the main categories, winning five awards with its album 25to the detriment of the singer born in Houston, whose album Lemonadenow a classic, had to settle for the Grammy Award for “best album of contemporary urban music”.
On stage, Adele paid a heartfelt tribute to “Queen B”, and the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which awards the awards, was once again accused of relegating artists of color to the background.
Whatever the outcome on Sunday, history is on for Beyoncé: with the nominations for this edition, she equals the record of her husband, Jay-Z, as the most nominated artist in the history of these awards (88 ).
According to the specialized magazine Billboard, the Grammy Award for “best album” should go to him, while Adele would win that of “best song of the year” with Easy On Me.
“I really hope so, doesn’t she deserve it?” “, launched to AFP Nile Rodgers, guitarist of the group Chic who contributed to the album Renaissance.
Beyoncé “is arguably the most culturally significant artist in the world,” noted music industry mogul and former manager Merck Mercuriadis at a pre-award gala.
Bad Bunny, the Spanish-speaking success
Beyond the Beyoncé-Adele duel, other stars shine in this edition, such as rapper Kendrick Lamar who has already won two awards out of eight nominations, with the best rap performance and the best rap song for The Heart Part 5.
Seven-nominated American folk-rock star Brandi Carlile has already turned three into gramophones, including Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance with Broken Horses.
Among the first sensations of the pre-ceremony, actress Viola Davis joined the very select club of artists who won the four major American awards, the Oscar (cinema), the Emmy (television), the Tony (theater ) and Sunday evening a Grammy, in the category “audio book, narration” for his memoirs Finding Me.
It’s the 18e artist to accomplish this exceptional performance, baptized “EGOT”, after in particular Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, or Rita Moreno.
The first award of its kind in the history of the Grammys, the award for best music for a video game went to American Stephanie Economou, for the music ofAssassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn Of Ragnarok.
Harry Styles, Lizzo or even Mary J. Blige are expected on stage during a ceremony presented again by comedian Trevor Noah.
Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, one of the world’s most successful artists of 2022, is nominated in three categories, including “Best Album” for Un verano sin tithe first album entirely in Spanish to compete in one of the queen categories.
Taylor Swift, who came from country music and has become a huge popstar, could finally win a Grammy in the “title of the year” category with the long version of her All too well. A track released in 2012 but re-recorded with enough differences for it to compete again.
For the “revelation of the year” category, the race is wide open.
Among the artists named, we find the Brazilian Anitta, the Italian rockers Maneskin, the rapper Latto… So many artists made famous by TikTok, which has become a breeding ground for revelations.
The group BTS, stars of K-pop on break, is also in the running.
The Academy, composed in particular of authors, composers, sound engineers, has also named a whole series of artists already well established in the music industry, including Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and ABBA.