By Deepa Lakshmin
Jon Batiste’s We Are. Tony Bennet and Girl Gaga’s Love For Sale. Justin Bieber’s Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe). Doja Cat’s Planet Her (Deluxe). Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever. H.E.R.’s Again of My Thoughts. Lil Nas X’s Montero. Olivia Rodrigo’s Bitter. Taylor Swift’s Evermore. Kanye West’s Donda.
The Recording Academy nominated the entire above for Album of the Yr on the sixty fourth Grammy Awards, and although Jon Batiste finally took house one of many evening’s most coveted Gramophones, he desires the viewers to know there are not any superlatives in relation to artwork. In actual fact, as you possibly can see within the video under, he appeared genuinely confused when presenter Lenny Kravitz revealed the winner on Sunday (April 3) at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment. After all, that shock gave away to pure pleasure quickly after.
“I imagine this to my core: There isn’t any finest musician, finest artist, finest dancer, finest actor,” Batiste stated after taking the stage for his acceptance speech. “The inventive arts are subjective, and so they attain folks at a degree of their lives once they want it most. It’s like a music or an album is made and it virtually has a radar to seek out the particular person once they want it probably the most.”
Batiste led the 2022 Grammy nominations with a whopping 11 nods, together with Report of the Yr for “Freedom,” which he carried out earlier within the evening. His energizing set began with a piano, included backup dancers galore decked out in multicolor fits, and ended with him dancing on Billie Eilish’s desk, as one does.
“I simply put my head down, and I work on the craft daily. I like music, I’ve been taking part in since I used to be a bit of boy. It’s greater than leisure for me, it’s a religious observe,” he continued, shouting out his members of the family and hugging producer Ryan Lynn for serving to him with We Are. “I didn’t do it on my own.”
He went on to thank his fellow nominees, spreading positivity to the entire crowd: “Each single artist that was nominated on this class I truly love and have had out-of-body experiences together with your music. I honor you, and that is for actual artists, actual musicians, let’s simply preserve going. Be you, that’s it. I like you even when I don’t know you! Goodnight!” Discover all of the winners right here.
