Move over, Sir Georg Solti —
Beyoncé reigns at the Grammy Awards.
After 88 career nominations, the R&B
singer and pop superstar won her 32nd Grammy on Sunday, for best dance/electronic
music album, giving her the record for most Grammy victories. Solti, a
Hungarian-born conductor who was the previous leader, won his last award in
1998, the year after his death.
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Beyoncé’s fourth win of the night — after
taking home best R&B song for “Cuff It” and two awards at the preshow
ceremony — came in a category that showed the breadth of her two-decade career:
“Renaissance” her tribute to Black dance music, beat work by Bonobo, Diplo,
Odesza, and Rüfüs du Sol. Beyoncé became the first Black woman to win in the
dance album category, which has been awarded since 2005.
Beyoncé became the first Black woman to win in the dance album category, which has been awarded since 2005.
Earlier, her No. 1 single “Break My Soul”
had won in best dance/electronic recording, while “Plastic Off the Sofa”, from
the same genre-spanning album, won best traditional R&B performance.
After the winner for dance/electronic album
was announced by James Corden — “This is an honor, because we are witnessing
history tonight!” — Beyoncé, who had not yet arrived at the ceremony when she
won her first televised award of the night, took the stage to a standing
ovation.
“I’m trying not to be too emotional,” she
said, “and I’m trying to just receive this night.”
Already, a post had been uploaded to
Beyoncé’s official Instagram celebrating her wins so far: “We won 3 y’all,” the
caption read, alongside a photo of the singer with a trio of trophies.
“‘Plastic Off the Sofa’ is my favorite song on ‘Renaissance’ most days. It’s
hard to pick though. Haaa.”
“I’m trying not to be too emotional,” she said, “and I’m trying to just receive this night.”
Nominated nine times overall Sunday, mostly
for “Renaissance” and its songs, Beyoncé will have a chance to add to her total
with the top categories still to come: song, record, and album of the year, a
prize she has never won despite three previous chances. Of the singer’s 32
trophies, just her song of the year victory in 2010, for “Single Ladies (Put a
Ring On It)”, came in one of the Grammys’ major, all-genre fields.
The Grammys and Black musicBeyoncé’s status as both a perennial,
now-unmatched Grammy favorite and also a high-profile loser under the
ceremony’s brightest lights — including album losses to both Adele and Taylor
Swift, each of whom has won the category multiple times — has underlined the
show’s complex relationship with contemporary Black music.
While the Recording Academy, the
organization behind the Grammys, has in recent years emphasized its commitment
to showcasing hip-hop and R&B on the telecast, and to broadening its voter
base, critics have contended that Black music has too often been overlooked in
the top categories.
Beyoncé had entered the night already the
most awarded woman in Grammy history, and tied with producer Quincy Jones, who
has 28 wins, for second most overall trophies. Alison Krauss, a bluegrass
singer and violinist who was nominated twice Sunday but lost both awards, has
27, as does Chick Corea.
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