The 65th Grammy Awards had a clear protagonist: Beyoncé. In the almost three decades of career in which she has been delighting us with her music and her voice, the Queen of R&B (Rhythm and Blues) became the most awarded musical artist in history with no less than 32 awards, surpassing the previous holder, Hungarian conductor Georg Solti.
.@Beyonce made history tonight! #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/TvkTBDaMVB
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 6, 2023
The massively successful Texan singer - born in Houston - arrived to the gala with nine nominations, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year, categories in which she was not finally awarded. Instead, she won four golden gramophones for Best R&B Song, Best Dance Recording, Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Traditional R&B Performance.
Apart from Beyoncé's milestone, the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles -historically known as Staples Center- left us with other award-winning stars such as Harry Styles, Ozzy Osbourne and Bonnie Raitt. The Hispanic world also held some prominent places in the overall list of award winners, such as Rosalía -BestRock Album/Latin Alternative Music-, Rubén Blades -BestLatin Pop Album- or Bad Bunny -BestUrban Music Album-. The Puerto Rican singer's beats and lyrics lifted the audience out of their seats during the opening performance of the ceremony. By the way, his album, Un verano sin ti, is the first Spanish-language compilation in history to be nominated in the Album of the Year category.
.@sanbenito said it best: ¡Que viva la música latina! pic.twitter.com/AGeLjp9eH5
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 6, 2023
The bitter side of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gala came from Sam Smith and transgender artist Kim Petras. Both performed their song Unholy -for which they received the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance-, with a staging that extolled the figure of the devil and for which they received a lot of criticism across social networks.
People like Sam Smith who love to mock Christianity and use Satanic themes always think they’re super edgy artists by doing it. In reality it’s not edgy. It’s boring, vile, rehashed shock tactics that Hollywood seals clap for because they’re evil & stupid. pic.twitter.com/Hmfo31M5NM
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 6, 2023
Before the ceremony, artists and guests sported some outlandish designs, such as the flowing dress of the singer Lizzo - who won the awards for Recording of the Year and to Best Remixed Recording - or Doja Cat, with a Morticia Addams-style look, amidst the flashes, lights and screaming fans that gathered in the vicinity of the Crypto.com Arena.
2023 Grammy Winners
Below is the complete list of the 2023 Grammy winners:
- Record of the Year -AboutDamn Time (Lizzo)
- Album of the Year - Harry's House (Harry Styles)
- Song of the year - Just Like That (Bonnie Raitt)
- Best New Artist - Samara Joy
- Best Pop Solo Artist Performance - Easy on Me (Adele)
- Best Pop Duo/Group Performance - Unholy (Sam Smith & Kim Petras)
- Best R&B Song - Cuff It (Beyoncé)
- Best Pop Vocal Album - Harry's House (Harry Styles)
- Best Urban Music Album - Un verano sin ti (Bad Bunny)
- Best Dance/Electronic Album - Renaissance (Beyoncé)
- Best rap album - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (Kendrick Lamar)
- Best Country Album - A Beautiful Time (Willie Nelson)
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album - Higher (Michael Bublé)
- Best Contemporary Instrumental Album - Empire Central (Snarky Puppy)
- Best Dance/Electronic Recording - Break My Soul (Beyoncé)
- Best Alternative Music Performance - Chaise Lounge (Chaise Lounge)
- Best Alternative Music Album - Wet Leg (Wet Leg)
- Best Rock Performance - Broken Horses (Brandi Carlile)
- Best Metal Performance - Degradation Rules (Ozzy Osbourne & Tony Iommi)
- Best Rock Song - Broken Horses (Brandi Carlile)
- Best Rock Album - Patient Number 9 (Ozzy Osbourne)
- Best R&B Performance - Hrs & Hrs (Muni Long)
- Best Traditional R&B Performance - Plastic Off the Sofa (Beyoncé)
- Best Progressive R&B Album - Gemini Rights (Steve Lacy)
- Best R&B Album - Black Radio III (Robert Glasper)
- Best Rap Performance - The Heart Part 5 (Kendrick Lamar)
- Best Melodic Rap Performance - Wait for U (Future & Drake & Tems)
- Best Rap Song - The Heart Part 5 (Kendrick Lamar)
- Best Country Solo Performance - Live Forever (Willie Nelson)
- Best Country Duo/Group Performance - Never Wanted to Be That Girl (Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde)
- Best Country Song - 'Til You Can't (Cody Johnson)
- Best new age/ambient/chant album - White Sun (Mystic Mirror)
- Best improvised jazz solo - Endangered Species (Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese)
- Best Vocal Jazz Solo Album - Linger Awhile (Samara Joy)
- Best Instrumental Jazz Album - New Standards, Vol. 1 (Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton & Matthew Stevens)
- Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album - Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra (Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson & Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra)
- Best Latin Jazz Album - Fandango at the Wall in New York (Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra & The Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective)
- Best Gospel Song/Performance - Kingdom (Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin)
- Best Contemporary Christian Music Song/Performance - Fear Is Not My Future (Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin)
- Best Gospel Album - Kingdom Book One (Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin)
- Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Breathe (Maverick City Music)
- Best Roots Gospel Album - The Urban Hymnal (Tennessee State University)
- Best Latin Pop Album - Pasieros (Rubén Blades & Boca Livre)
- Best Latin rock/alternative music album - Motomami (Rosalía)
- Best Regional Mexican Music Album - Un Canto por México (Natalia Lafourcade)
- Best Tropical Latin Music Album - Pa'lla Voy (Marc Anthony)
- Best American Roots Music Performance - Stompin' Ground (Aaron Neville & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band)
- Best American Music Performance - Made Up Mind (Bonnie Raitt)
- Best American Roots Music Song - Just Like That (Bonnie Raitt)
- Best American Music Album - In These Silent Days (Brandi Carlile)
- Best Bluegrass Album - Crooked Tree (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)
- Best Traditional Blues Album - Get on Board (Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder)
- Best Contemporary Blues Album - Brother Johnny (Edgar Winter)
- Best Folk Album - Revealer (Madison Cunningham)
- Best Regional Roots Music Album - Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Ranky Tanky)
- Best Reggae Album - Kabaka Pyramid (The Kalling)
- Best Global Music Performance - Bayethe (Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini & Nomcebo Zikode)
- Best Global Music Album - Sakura(Masa Takumi)
- Best Children's Music Album - The Movement (Alphabet Rockers)
- Best Audiobook/Narrative/Storytelling - Finding Me (Viola Davis)
- Best Spoken Poetry -ThePoet Who Sat by the Door (J. Ivy)
- Best Comedy Album - The Closer (Dave Chappelle)
- Best Album of Music Made for Musicals - Into the Woods ('Into the Woods' 2022 Broadway Cast)
- Best visual media soundtrack compilation - Encanto(Various Artists)
- Best soundtrack (film and television) - Encanto (Germaine Franco)
- Best Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media - Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök (Stephanie Economou)
- Best Song Written for Visual Media - We Don't Talk About Bruno (Encanto)
- Best Instrumental Composition - Refuge (Geoffrey Keezer)
- Best Arrangement, Instrumentation or Acapella - Scrapple From the Apple (Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley & The SWR Big Band & Martin Auer)
- Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals - Songbird (Christine McVie)
- Best Recording Equipment - Beginningless Beginning (Tamsui-Kavalan Chinese Orchestra)
- Best Boxset or Limited Special Edition - In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden '81, '82, '83 (The Grateful Dead)
- Best notes of an album - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Wilco)
- Composer of the year, non-classical - Tobias Jesso Jr.
- Best engineering on a non-classic album - Harry's House (Harry Styles)
- Producer of the year, non-classical - Jack Antonoff
- Best remixed recording - About Damn Time [Purple Disco Machine Remix] (Lizzo)
- Best Immersive Music Album - Divine Tides (Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej)
- Best Engineered Album, Classical - Mason Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra (Edwin Outwater & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
- Producer of the Year, Classic - Judith Sherman
- Best Orchestral Performance - Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman (New York Youth Symphony)
- Best Opera Recording - Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
- Best Choral Performance - Born (The Crossing)
- Best Chamber/Small Ensemble Performance - Caroline Shaw: Evergreen (Attacca Quartet)
- Best Classical Instrumental Solo - Letters for the Future (Time for Three, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Xian Zhang)
- Best Classical Solo Vocal Album - Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (Renée Fleming & Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
- Best Classic Compendium - An Adoption Story (Kitt Wakeley)
- Best Contemporary Classical Composition - Puts: Contact (Time for Three, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Xian Zhang)
- Best Music Video - All Too Well: The Short Film (Taylor Swift)
- Best Musical Film - Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (Various Artists)
