The biggest music event of the year has arrived, so it’s time to find out which of your favorite music idols is a Grammy awards 2022 winners!

After being postponed due to the Omicron variant, the 64th annual Grammy Awards finally happened on April 4, 2022. The show was held at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Trevor Noah, who previously hosted the ceremony in 2021, returned to do so again this year.

Check out the full list of winners below:

• Record of the Year
  • “Leave The Door Open” – Silk Sonic
• Album of the Year
•   “We Are” – Jon Batiste
• Song of the Year
  • “Leave The Door Open” – Silk Sonic
• Best New Artist
  • Olivia Rodrigo
• Best Pop Solo Performance
  • “Drivers License” – Olivia Rodrigo
• Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
  • “Kiss Me More” – Doja Cat featuring SZA
• Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
  • “Love For Sale” – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
• Best Pop Vocal
  • “Sour” – Olivia Rodrigo
• Best Dance/Electronic Recording
  • “Alive” – Rufus Du Sol, Jason Evigan & Rufus Du Sol, producers; Cassian Stewart-Kasimba, mixer
•  Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
  • “Subconsciously” – Black Coffee
• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
  • “Tree Falls” – Taylor Eigsti
• Best Rock Performance
  • “Making A Fire” – Foo Fighters
• Best Rock Song
  • “Waiting On A War” – Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
• Best Metal Performance
  • “The Alien” – Dream Theater
• Best Rock Album
•   “Medicine At Midnight” – Foo Fighters
• Best Alternative Music Album
  •  “Daddy’s Home” – St. Vincent
• Best R&B Performance
  • “Pick Up Your Feelings” – Jazmine Sullivan (tie)
• “LeaveThe Door Open” – Silk Sonic (tie)
• Best R&B Song
  • “Leave The Door Open” – Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II and Bruno Mars, songwriters (Silk Sonic)
• Best R&B Album
  • “Heaux Tales” – Jazmine Sullivan
• Best Rap Performance
  • “Family Ties” – Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar
• Best Rap Song
  • “Jail” – Dwayne Abernathy, Jr., Shawn Carter, Raul Cubina, Michael Dean, Charles M. Njapa, Sean Solymar, Brian Hugh Warner, Kanye West & Mark Williams, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Jay-Z)
• Best Rap Album
  • “Call Me If You Get Lost” – Tyler, The Creator
• Best Melodic Rap Performance
  •  “Hurricane” – Kanye West ft. the Weekend and Lil Baby
• Best Country Album
  •  “Starting Over” – Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Solo Performance
  •  “You Should Probably Leave” – Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Duo/Group Performance
•   “Younger Me” – Brothers Osborne
• Best Country Song
  •   “Cold” – Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)
• Best Progressive R&B Album
  • “Table For Two” – Lucky Daye
• Best Traditional R&B Performance
  • “Fight For You” – H.E.R.
•  Best New Age Album
•     “Divine Tides” – Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej
• Best Improvised Jazz Solo
  • “Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)” – Chick Corea
•   Best Jazz Vocal Album
  • “Songwrights Apothecary Lab” – Esperanza Spalding
• Best Jazz Instrumental Album
  • “Skyline” – Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Gonzalo Rubalcaba
• Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
  • “For Jimmy, Wes Oliver” – Christian McBride Bid Band
• Best Latin Jazz Album
•   “Mirror Mirror” – Eliane Elias with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdes
• Best Gospel Performance/Song
  • “Never Lost” – Cece Winans
• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
  •    “Believe for It” – CeCe Winans – Winner
• Best Gospel Album
  •    “Believe for It” – CeCe Winans – Winner
• Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
  •    “Old Church Basement “– Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music
• Best Roots Gospel Album
  •    “My Savior” – Carrie Underwood
• Best Latin Pop Album
  •    “Mendó” – Alex Cuba
•  Best Música Urbana Album
•    “El Último Tour Del Mundo”
• Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
  •    “Origen” – Juanes
• Best Regional Mexican Music Album
  •    “A Mis 80’s” – Vicente Fernández
• Best Tropical Latin Album
•     “Salswing!,” Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
• Best American Roots Performance
  •  “Cry” – Jon Batiste
• Best American Roots Song
  •    “Cry” – Jon Batiste and Steve McEwan
• Best American Album
  • “Native Sons” – Los Lobos
• Best Bluegrass Album
  •  “My Bluegrass Heart” – Bela Fleck
• Best Traditional Blues Album
  • “I Be Trying” – Cedrick Burnside
• Best Contemporary Blues Album
  • “662” – Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
• Best Folk Album
  • “They’re Calling Me Home” – Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
•  Best Regional Roots Music Album
  •   “Kau Ka Pe’a” – Kalani Pe’a
• Best Reggae Album
  •    “Beauty in the Silence” − SOJA
• Best Global Music Album
  •  “Mother Nature” − Angélique Kidjo
• Best Global Music Performance
  •  “Mohabbat” − Arooj Aftab
• Best Children’s Album
  • “A Colorful World” − Falu
• Best Spoken Word Album
  •   “Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis” − Don Cheadle
• Best Comedy Album
  •   “Sincerely” – Louis C.K.
• Best Musical Theater Album
  • “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” – Emily Bear, producer; Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, composers/lyricists (Barlow & Bear)
• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
  • “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” – Andra Day
• Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
  • “Soul” – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, composers (tie)
  •  “The Queen’s Gambit” – Carlos Rafael Rivera, composer (tie)
• Best Song Written for Visual Media
  • “All Eyes on Me” (from Bo Burnham: Inside)
• Best Instrumental Composition
  •  “Eberhard” – Lyle Mays
• Best Arrangement, Instrumental or ACapella
  •   “Meta Knight’s Revenge” – Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman
• Best Arrangement, Instruments and vocals
  •    “To The Edge of Longing (Edit Version)” – Vince Mendoza
• Best Recording Package
  •  “Pakelang”
• Best Boxed or Special Limited-Edition Package
  •  “All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary Edition”
• Best Album Notes
  • “The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966”
• Best Historical Album
  •  “Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)” – Joni Mitchell
• Best Engineered Album Non-Classical
  •  Love for Sale – Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
  • Jack Antonoff
• Best Remixed Recording
  • “Passenger” (Mike Shinoda remix) – Mike Shinoda, remixer (Deftones)
• Best Immersive Audio Album
  • “Alicia” – Alicia Keys
• Best Engineered Album, Classical
  • “Chanticleer Sings Christmas” – Leslie Ann Jones, engineer
• Producer of the Year, Classical
  • Judith Sherman
• Best Orchestral Performance
  •  “Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3” – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
• Best Opera Recording
  • “Glass: Akhnaten” – Karen Kamensek
• Best Choral Performance
  •  “Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony Of A Thousand’” – Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
• Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
  •  “Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – Hope Amid Tears” – Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
• Best Classical Instrumental Solo
  • “Alone Together” – Jennifer Koh
• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
  • “Mythologies” – Sangeeta Kaur and Hila Plitmann
• Best Classical Compendium
  •  “Women Warriors – The Voices Of Change” – Amy Andersson, conductor; Amy Andersson, Mark Mattson and Lolita Ritmanis, producers
• Best Contemporary Classical Composition
  • “Shaw: Narrow Sea” – Caroline Shaw, composer (Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish and Sō Percussion)
• Best Music Video
  • “Freedom” – Jon Batiste
• Best Music Film
  • “Summer of Soul” – Various Artists; Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, video director; David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent and Joseph Patel, video producers

Grammys 2022 Highlights

The Grammys honored music released between September 1st, 2020, and September 30th, 2021. Winners were chosen by more than 11,000 voting members of the Recording Academy, who qualified by receiving recommendations from other music professionals. 

The show began with a rapid-fire carousel of contemporary pop, with elaborate stagings that were missing from last year’s stripped-down show.

Many music icons performed during the ceremony. To name a few, Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak’s retro soul-funk project, performed ‘777,’ a song about the high-rolling, Sin City side of Las Vegas. Olivia Rodrigo, a 19-year-old pop sensation, performed her hit ‘Drivers License’ on a set modeled after a suburban street, her voice swelling to emotional peaks before breaking as it fell.

J Balvin performed the song ‘Qué Más Pues? with Maria Becerra, and his song ‘In da Getto’ in front of a stadium full of masked dancers. Lil Nas X, the rapper, singer, and meme master, also performed a high-concept medley of his songs ‘Dead Right Now,’ ‘Montero (Call Me by Your Name),’ and ‘Industry Baby,’ which featured Jack Harlow, interspersed with a montage of overheated media commentators.

BTS, meanwhile, took the stage for a high-energy rendition of their hit “Butter.” They delivered a memorable performance that was full of panache, channeling a James Bond-style vibe. As the performance was about to start, BTS V and Olivia Rodrigo were caught in the act of whispering something into her ear while she gasped at his revelation. This flirtatious moment between Olivia and V has certainly taken the ARMY by surprise, as they can’t stop screaming with joy and a tinge of jealousy.

Justin Bieber performed his song ‘Peaches’ on the piano as well together with Daniel Caesar and Giveon. From Justin’s wife Hailey to Lady Gaga, BTS, and others, the audience loved the group’s soulful performance of “Peaches.”

The biggest night in music is essentially one big concert where awards are given out. 

It was that, but because of a mid-show appearance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke of Ukrainian musicians in body armor and appealed for support, everything landed in a context that seemed to escape last week’s Oscars.

For a brief moment, the night of music and celebration came to a halt as attention was drawn to the ongoing invasion and the plight of the Ukrainian people. The aforementioned Zelensky appearance set up a performance by John Legend, who sang “Free” while wearing a blue suit as a visual salute to Ukraine. In this moving moment, he was joined on stage by Ukrainian singer Mika Newton and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk. – WhatALife!

Source: (cbsnews.com, nytimes.com, nytimes.com )

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