Grammy Awards star-studded, Taylor Swift leads female artist to win big – News – Rti Central Radio

Taylor Swift has won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the fourth time. (AFP)

The 66th Grammy Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles on the evening of the 4th. The scene was filled with stars. Taylor Swift won the Album of the Year award for the fourth time at this event, setting a new record.

Agence France-Presse reported that Taylor Swift surpassed legendary singer Frank Sinatra, folk singer Paul Simon and soul singer Stevie Wonder at this year’s Grammy Awards. Achievements, becoming the record holder for the most album of the year awards.

The 34-year-old Taylor Swift is already a big star in the pop music industry, and receiving this award is the icing on the cake. During her speech, Taylor Swift also announced that a new album will be released on April 19th, called The Tortured Poets Department.

However, Swift lost out to her rivals in the other two awards.

Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” won the record of the year award; Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell won the song of the year award in recognition of songwriting. What Was I Made For? won, this song comes from the soundtrack of the movie “Barbie”.

Miley said during her speech on stage: “This award is amazing, but I really hope it doesn’t change anything because my life was great yesterday.” Miley won the Grammy for the first time after nearly 20 years in the industry. This is not only her second award of the night, but also her second career Grammy Award.

Victoria Monet won the coveted Best Newcomer, her third award of the night.

After years in the industry, Victoria Monet made a name for herself and achieved commercial success with her debut studio album Jaguar II. She was nominated for seven awards tonight, including Record of the Year.

It’s a win for the Recording Academy that female artists sweep tonight’s major awards. The Recording Academy has spent years fighting criticism that the organization heavily favors white men.

When Billie was asked what the outstanding performance of female artists this year means to her future, she told reporters backstage: “As a woman, many times I feel that I am not seen… This makes me feel that I am being paid special attention to. “Sometimes it feels really good when someone says ‘good job’ to you.”

This year, only one male artist was nominated for Album of the Year and Record of the Year, but jazz musician Jon Batiste came away empty-handed.

SZA led the way with 9 nominations, and she won 3 awards that night, including Best R&B Song, Best Progressive R&B Album, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Phoebe Bridgers prize.

Only nine competitive awards were awarded during the broadcast portion of the awards show, but most of the more than 90 trophies were awarded during the hours-long televised pre-broadcast ceremony.

Supergroup BoyGenius took home the win in the rock category.

The music in the movie “Barbie” received 11 nominations and finally took home 3 awards, 2 of which were attributed to Weird Billie.

Rapper Killer Mike won the rap category with three awards for his album Michael.

Joni Mitchell won best folk album for “Joni Mitchell At Newport.”