With five figurines for jazz singer and pianist Jon Batiste, the 64th Grammy Awards had a striking protagonist. Silk Sonic and Olivia Rodrigo also took top prizes.
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The Grammys were awarded for the 64th time on Sunday evening with a grand show in Las Vegas. With this award, the American Recording Academy awards the best music of the past year, in no fewer than 86 categories. There are some decent niche awards in between, including ‘Best Album Notes’ and ‘Best Contemporary Christian Music Album’ (for the fans: these went to Ricky Riccardi and Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music respectively). But the four most important cross-genre awards are ‘Album of the year’, ‘Record of the year’, ‘Song of the year’ and ‘Best new artist’.
That made the 19-year-old pop singer Olivia Rodrigo the top favorite, because she was the only one nominated in those four categories. Despite the success of world hit Driver’s license and her debut album Sour she only managed to win in the newbies category. Earlier in the evening she already won two prizes in the pop category.