Swift’s record at the Grammys for women’s singles
Concert ticket rushes, new love, and being Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’—all in all, Taylor Swift has had a great year. The 34-year-old singer had a great start to the new year. He became the first artist in history to win the ‘Album of the Year’ award for the fourth time at the Grammy Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles yesterday. Not only Swift, this year’s Grammys were a celebration of women; Important awards were won by women artists.
Ever since her Grammy nominations were announced last November, Swift’s record has had fans eyeing her. Because no industry has received this award four times before. Swift broke the records of Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra by winning the ‘Album of the Year’ award four times. Accepting the award for ‘Midnights’, the elated singer said, ‘This is the best moment of my life. Thank you all for voting for me. I want to keep making more songs. Because, that’s what makes me happy. Swift also announced the new album by surprising fans. He said that his new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ will be released on April 19.
Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish won the two other important Grammy awards ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’ respectively.
After a break of three years, Miley Cyrus’ new album ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ was released in March last year. Miley won ‘Record of the Year’ for the hugely popular song ‘Flowers’ from this album. Reacting after winning the award, he said, ‘Winning the award is a great thing. But hopefully it (the award) won’t change anything in my life, my life was great yesterday too.”
The song ‘What Was I Made For’ from Greta Gerwig’s movie ‘Barbie’, which was released last year, became very popular among the youth. Billie Eilish won the ‘Song of the Year’ award for the song. After winning the award, he thanked the other artists who were nominated with him and said, ‘All those who were nominated with me are great artists and people; Everyone sings great.’
Ganesh Rajagopalan, another member of the ‘Shakti’ band, accepted the award with Shankar Mahadevan on stage at the Grammys. After receiving the award, Shankar Mahadevan said, “I am dedicating the award to my wife.” Apart from this, Zakir Hossain received the award for the best global music performance with the song ‘Pashtu’. He is accompanied by Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer. Among Indians, bassist Rakesh Chaurasia has also received a Grammy award.