67th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony

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ladies and gentlemen the 67th annual

Grammy awards premere ceremony with

Yolanda Adams Wayne Brady Deborah Cox

Scott Hoying Angelique kijo and Taj

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fun right now everybody how you

feel we are here tonight let's everybody

get involved we're going to start right

here in this section scop we're going to

spill you into three parts over here on

the left side this is your part ready 3

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the Grammy premere ceremony is proudly

presented by City National Bank the

official Bank of the Grammy Awards

ladies and Gentlemen please welcome the

CEO of the recording Academy Mr Harvey

Mason

Jor come on let's give it up yeah ch

what a performance right that's how you

start a music show

right let's give it up for some of our

Grammy nominees that performed here

Yolanda Adams Wayne

yeah Wayne

Brady Scott

hoing Angelique

Keo and Tas Mahal

and of course of course the Maestro CH

Alara and his Grammy Premier all-star

band good afternoon everybody and

welcome to the 2025 premere ceremony and

the official start of the 67th Grammy

celebration this is a very special event

and a special day

for the next 3 hours and then later

tonight on The Telecast we're going to

honor and celebrate this amazing year in

music we'll hand out some trophies and

we're going to see some Unforgettable

performances and this year we're also

going to honor music's great power to

inspire to heal and to

unite because of the recent fires that

devastated Los Angeles we're also going

to recognize the resilience of our

community and celebrate our First

Responders and do our very best to lift

up this city that we love we're also

hard at work raising money to support

those impacted if you have the ability

to make a contribution we don't care how

much I can promise you that it's needed

and that it will go to the members of

our music community and others affected

by the

fires I'm so grateful just to be here

today to come together around

music looking around the room

I'm reminded how incredibly Lucky I Am

we all are to be part of this amazing

music community and we can't ever take

that for

granted we're community that lifts each

other to achieve our goals and that

cheers loudly when we reach them we're a

group that honors those who have

inspired us while also elevating the

next generation of innovators and when

adversity hits we know we can count on

this community to come together to

support one

another so thank you for your boundless

contributions your unwavering spirit and

your commitment to making the world a

better place through

music I'm so excited and I can't thank

you enough for all being here and now

please join me in bringing to the stage

the chair of the Board of Trustees Tammy

hurt

well thank you Harvey it is my greatest

honor today to stand on this stage in

front of such a a group of such

remarkable artists on behalf of the

recording Academy's Board of Trustees

and our entire musical family please

join me stand up on your feet give a

huge congratulations to all of this

year's esteemed Grammy

nominees thank you and congratulations

everyone

so what a singular pleasure it is to

welcome you all to the Grammy Premiere

ceremony as music creators each of you

has the extraordinary ability to

transform pure emotion into music that

moves people that heals people that

connects people in ways that nothing

else can we gravitate to music in

challenging times when tragedies like

the LA wildfires hit and when stability

and reassurance fail to show up

today every person in this room feels

the pain and is grieving the loss all

around us here in Los

Angeles the noise of the world is

loud and the weight of the unexpected

around us can feel

crushing and you the people who make the

music possess such a special gift your

music has the power to to heal and to

remind those who are struggling that

they're not

alone it comes from your vulnerability

your courage and your radical

authenticity you know we seek music as a

Solace and a source of renewed

inspiration to Anchor us and lift us

back up on our

feet there's an indelible truth in the

music that I love it lives in every

resonating lyric every stirring Melody

and in every expressive performance I'm

sure you know what I mean when I say

music's never let me

down we are so fortunate to be here

together resilient and United by our

shared passion what a privilege it is to

be able to connect on such a profound

level your songs they empower the

voiceless and renew the strength of the

weary some of the most transformative

music in history has come from hardship

becoming anthems of resilience ience and

hope in your music it offers the power

to change lives and maybe even save them

one song at a

time so before I close I want to express

my deepest gratitude to the recording

Academy's Board of Trustees our members

and the remarkable Academy staff serving

as chair of this board for the past four

years has been one of the greatest

honors of my lifetime thank you for your

trust your support and your dedication

to our community you've shown this queer

independent female drummer from Atlanta

Georgia through music anything is

possible and I am truly grateful thank

you all right let's get on let's get on

with it the reason that we're here right

shall we you

ready it is my greatest pleasure to

introduce to you

the host of this year's Grammy Premiere

ceremony an artist whose Talent

creativity and humor have earned him yet

another nomination for best song of the

year backed by popular demand the one

the only the incomparable Justin trer

hello thank you Tammy thank you so much

look at all of these brilliant brilliant

people and the

executives this room is overflowing with

icons of Sound Master

of Melody and the executives

it it is an absolute joy to be standing

before the incredible talent that makes

our industry's beautiful heartbeat

louder than a white guy playing Latin

percussion it's so loud so loud

today we're here to recognize the soul

passion and creativ it that breeed life

into every lyric and every note that the

world loved this year that music was

created by us the People In This Very

Room give yourselves a round of

applause I would love to shout out the

amazing people streaming this at home

all over the world whether it's crack of

dawn happy hour or last call thank you

for tuning in your presence fuels This

Global celebration now I know what

you're thinking someone whose wrists

move like

this and legs move like

that thank you someone like that hosting

a celebration during these tumultuous

times

this is going to get political but I

promise you I'm going to bring you

nothing but joy fashion and a lot of

music because record labels trying to

win over Grammy voters is political

enough we've had

enough this year our Grammy Premiere is

a tribute to resilience creativity and

community

a tribute to the people of Los Angeles

who Inspire us with their strength even

in the face of unimaginable challenges

this city has always been a beacon for

dreamers and Visionaries this afternoon

we honor not only the music but the

spirit of the people who make it the

First Responders who are the definition

of courage and the countless individuals

who are finding hope and rebuilding

after the devastating fires I love this

city the city changed my life the city

saved my life so can we take a quick

second and make some noise for the city

of

Angels

louder

ladder the academy is committed to

standing alongside those affected by the

fires we've created a unique QR code to

support music cares and local

organizations that are actively working

to uplift and assist our community

during this time of hardship we invite

you to scan that QR code explore click

and contribute let's do everything we

can to make a lasting

impact Executives I expect a good

donation pop producers I expect huge

donations classical and jazz producers

do the best you

can do the best you

can

okay I'm glad you laugh laughed at that

I was a little

nervous okay before we get this fabulous

show going here are a few quick

reminders to keep things running

smoothly one we've got some amazing

performances and about

85 yes 85 Grammys to hand out so please

keep your acceptance speeches very short

and very sweet two if you hear your name

after and the Grammy goes to jump up

wave your arms and let us know that

you're here and head to the stage three

remember you've got 45 seconds total for

your speech and that 45 seconds starts

the minute your feet hit the aisle it's

very serious in here okay so I don't

make the rules when when you see wrap it

up please wrap it up if not

C CH will start playing music to cue you

off okay he's very

good but it means stop okay so your mic

will cut off it's a long show we have

many many winners and please don't blame

CH he's only following orders

four nominees Pro tip and the pro is not

me because I I've never won a Grammy uh

good luck babe uh we actually co-wrote

that about me trying to win a Grammy so

nominees Sit Close to the aisle so you

have a quick path to the stage five if

your name isn't called please stay

seated the academy kindly requests no

substitute acceptors on

stage six lastly a safety tip for all

winners the acceptance area to my right

there's like a cute little step uh make

sure you step cuz falling while you win

your Grammy would not be as Chic as you

think it is I think got it step we got

it thank

you okay uh a very exciting note the

recording Academy is dedicated to

accessibility efforts the diversity

equity and inclusion

team

yes yes uh they have worked closely with

our Community Partners to ensure ASL

interpreters are involved in the Premier

ceremony for the first time

ever we are so excited to have pro bono

as our our partner to provide this ASL

interpretation please help me welcome

our ASL interpreter Divas Dara Hitchin

and Mo'Nique

Daniels

louder before we start handing out

Grammys I'd like to give a big shout out

to our trophy presenters from Grammy U

thanks so much for being a part of our

celebration thank

you for all our virtual viewers we're

keeping the magic rolling again this

year you can simply scan the QR code on

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smoother enjoy

okay okay are we

ready from ballads that break your heart

to Bangers that break the rules we have

got it all let's have some real fun in

this pre-telecast and celebrate the

out of each other before we head across

the street and all get very nervous and

insane because there's TV cameras okay

let's let's like really celebrate each

other these next couple hours are you

with me

all right let's give out some awards

baby Make some

noise for best pop solo performance the

nominees are

Beyonce Sabrina

Carpenter Charlie

XCX Billy

ish Chapel ran

and the Grammy goes

to Espresso Sabrina Carpenter

cheers for

Sabrina for best dance electronic

recording the nominees are guy Lawrence

and Howard

Lawrence Kieran

hebon Buu Fred again Alex Gibson Kieran

hebon loose Skrillex Sid Stone and J

Reynolds Gaspar a zavier d

Damen Quintard and Vincent

Terell Lauren deia krata and Neil H

POG and the Grammy goes

to it's not opening let's go never Ender

Justice and T andala

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best dance pop recording the

nominees are Madison Beer Leroy clampet

and Mitch McCarthy

XCX Finn Keane and Tom

Norris Billy ish Phineas John castelli

and Aaron

Forbes Ariana Grande Ilia Max Martin and

seringa Troy Savon Styles Fuego Ian Kirk

Patrick and Alex

skya and the Grammy goes

to Von Dutch Charlie

XPS uh wow thank you so much I mean um

firstly want to say thank you to Brandon

Davis the uh anr

Atlantic who helped push the song as far

as it could go and uh secondly I want to

thank Charlie for being an amazing

collaborator and uh she has been making

this kind of music for like 10 years

maybe maybe a little less but everyone's

just kind of caught up to it and

everyone's finally like realizing what

she can do so thank you very much

for best dance electronic album the

nominees are Charlie

XCX

foret

Justice

krata

Zed and the Grammy goes to brat Charlie

X

see I will happily accept this on behalf

of Charlie and everyone else involved

Round of Applause for

Charlie for best remixed recording the

nominees

are KR

David

geta fnz and Mark

Ronson Alex andas footsteps and Mr

Mish AG

cook and the Grammy goes to

Espresso fnc Mark Ronson Sabrina

Carpenter

I will take this Grammy too on their

behalf congratulations

everybody she re-imagined an original

southern Ballad by Alice Randall and

made it uniquely her own that powerful

interpretation earned her a nomination

for best Roots best American Roots

performance please welcome two-time

Grammy winner ranan

giddens thank you Justin it's an honor

to stand here today celebrating not just

our love for music but the resilience

and spirit that fuel it we have the

power to Inspire and make the world

better through every note and every beat

let's keep using our music as a Force

for good a soundtrack for Change and a

reminder that we're all in this together

art should always be responsive to the

community and should support the

community and the community should

support art and artists because that's

what we have for the next few years

let's make it happen

please scan the QR code on your screen

to follow along with the Run of this

show and now let's hand out some more

gramys here are the next

categories for best Americana

performance the nominees are

Beyonce Madison

Cunningham Maddie Diaz and Casey

Musgraves Sierra Ferrell

Sarah

Jose Gillian Welch and David

Rawlings and the Grammy goes to this is

very exciting Sierra ferl

wow wow thank you so much hang on I got

my speech in

here okay let's get this out it's a

little

stuck anyways I want to say thank you

to my mom for one I love my mother and

to my little dog

Baker and to my production crew um Eddie

Spears and Gary petza

and to my girls out on the road with me

who help keep me together and keep the

wheels

rolling um that's hot dog and mama hot

dog Bobby and Jen Marlo and I honestly

wasn't expecting this and I want to

thank everyone in the category because

everyone's so beautiful in their own way

and they have their own

Essence and um we're we have a spiritual

warfare going on and I love you so

cheers

for best American root song the nominees

are Mark

knofler Sam

beam EA odonovan

Sierra frell and Melody

Walker John Han and will

Kimbro and the Grammy goes to

Sierra Ferell and Melody Walker American

dreaming get on up here got see her

Melody's coming up

here y'all she she came over to my house

and she said we're going to listen

listen I have an idea and you know she

said uh she had this song American dream

and and honestly I didn't really know

what to say to that because uh you know

the American Dreams kind of a weird

thing and do you have something to say

say I Just Want to Thank You Sierra for

being so real and vulnerable when we

wrote this song and I want to thank Paul

Bell and Tony for giving you a beehive

while we did it and Thanks for believing

in my songwriting and thanks to everyone

who believed in my songw writing thanks

to my folks thanks my partner

Jacob for best Americana album the

nominees

are T Bone

Bernett Charlie

Crockett Sierra

Ferell Sarah

Jose Maggie Rose

waxa

Hatchi and the Grammy goes

to trail of flowers Sierra

Ferrell honestly this is kind of

hilarious I like walk off the stage

you're like no just wait right here and

I'm like really okay

um I you know I want to thank my Bookers

also as well I got Keith and ysy over

there they're

here um you know I want to thank anyone

who's been helping me get along out here

you know life is hard touring is hard

torn is hard it's honestly very

unnatural and um but it's beautiful to

get to go out there and

share and share because we all need we

all deserve to share our things so I

love you all thank

you for best bluegrass album the

nominees

are bronwin Keith

hins the Del McCurry

band sister

Saadi Billy

strings Tony

trishka Dan timinsky

and the Grammy goes

to live volume one Billy

strings congratulations I will accept

this Grammy on his

behalf for best fol album the nominees

are American Patchwork

quartet Maddie

Diaz Adrien

lanker epha odonovan

Gillian Welch and David

Rawlings and the Grammy goes

to Woodland Gillan Welch and David

Rollings

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best Regional Roots Music

album the nominees are sha ardua and

creole Rock and

Soul Big Chief monk Buro the golden

eagles and Jan

Buro New Breed Brass Band and Trombone

Shorty colani

paa the rumble and Chief Joseph Buro

Jr and the Grammy goes

to Kalani Paia

my

Mahalo

akaa myuna my ancestors and forefathers

for instilling me the gift of love and

music for my mother right here who gave

birth to this queen one Queen to this

queen my husband of 16 years Alan

who's this is my team for loving me my

queen to this queen Queeny means Queen I

honor the matriarchs and the matenal

powers of the universe my mother my

grandmothers your mother your

grandmother's Queen Emma who established

an amazing Health Care system on this uh

for the kanaka for us kanaka I also

acknowledge um the wonderful people on

this album I honor kav the goddess of

laah the protector of Mula because we

live on Maui we dealt with the wildfires

we can relate and we're here to bring

healing to the

world I'm a hollow my engineer and

co-producer this is his first Grammy

Award win mik Cil while I wider Ron Ruff

churo Kam schools I want to honor

lialoha kaula and another kumula a queen

of mine Lena Al paval Jardine I want

like to honor all of the collaborators

you know 24 years ago in high school I

said something in my yearbook that one

day I'll win a Grammy this is my fourth

Grammy win as a singer songwriter an

independent artist I am an indie artist

I believe all of us Indies need to stick

together and guess what we create the

Academy I love you all aloha

for best gospel performance song the

nominees are Yolanda Adams Donald

Lawrence and Sir William James

Baptist Melvin crispel

III Ricky

Dillard doe Jesse Paul barera Jeffrey

Castro Bernat Dominique Jones Timothy

Ferguson Kelby sioban Johnson Jr

Jonathan McReynolds Ricky slick music

offered and Juan

weens Tasha cobs Leonard Erica Campbell

Israel hoton Jonathan McReynolds jaen

Carr G Morris Coleman Kenneth Leonard Jr

and Naomi

rain and the Grammy goes to one

Hallelujah

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their behalf

for best contemporary Christian music

performance song the nominees are bethl

music Jen Johnson and CC

Wiens Elevation Worship Brandon Lake

Chris Brown Chandler Moore Pat Barrett

Cody KS and Steven

fdick honor and glory and

disciple J Walkers Maverick City Music

Chandler Moore Austin Armstrong ran

Jackson Sage norel Ella shaki Noah shaki

and Ilia toshinsky

Maverick City Music Naomi rain Chandler

Moore Tasha cobs Leonard and G Morris

Coleman CC winens Taylor aen Kelly

gamble Lloyd Nicks and Jess

Russ and the Grammy goes

to that's my king CC WI

um this song was written by a bunch of

strangers who became family in a room

and the room was full of joy God is kind

yes he is um our families are kind thank

you for putting up with us um these are

the people that wrote it with me um

we're small town kids y'all thank you CC

wi we love you so much all right you I

just want to thank um CC wanes for

carrying his song for the recording

Academy to Jesus for being the King of

Kings thank you Lord to my wife and my

family my kingly family to the

co-writers and to curve word records we

thank you so so much thank you all thank

you thank you to The Bridge Church and

the bridge worship family as well

because without that Community this song

would not exist I love you guys so much

and this is insane to my family I love

you guys so

much this means something different to

all of us but I'd like to dedicate this

to my grandfather who passed away three

months ago Dell young who sent us the

sermon that inspired this song so um

just you never know where a song will

take you listen to your grandparents we

love you thank you

for best gospel album the nominees

are Melvin chrisel

III Ricky

Dillard Kirk

Franklin Karen Clark

Shear CC

winens and the Grammy goes to More Than

This CC

winens congratulations I will accept

this scam on their

behalf for best contemporary Christian

music album the nominees are

doe Elevation Worship

Forest

Frank Brandon

Lake Maverick City Music Naomi rain and

Chandler

Moore and the Grammy goes to oh Lord I

done broke the envelope heart of a human

do

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on her

behalf for best Roots gospel album the

nominees

are authentic

unlimited Mark D

Conlan the Harlem gospel Trust

ERS Cory

Henry the

neans and the Grammy goes

to church Cory Henry

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy your behalf

thank you to the Accord Academy

recording

Academy thank you

God thank you God thank you God that's

all I can say um I was just rushing in

here I'm just so happy to be here thank

you to all my peers uh thank you to

everybody who helped me make the church

album rapael sadik Bishop Caron Pearson

uh uh John key the list goes on there so

many songs and it's been a blessing to

me because it's my literally my life

history on record so and this is um a

testim testimony for me to tell

everybody who knows me to follow God and

to uh follow your dreams follow God

he'll direct your path thank you guys uh

for this award I love you all

are we having

fun with his blistering solos blues rock

Mastery and unmistakable sound he has

become a global sensation nominated for

a Grammy in the best contemporary Blues

album category here to blow our minds

please welcome Joe bamasa

every

morning when I wake

up Lord I cry pool of

te seven days now

since you left

me will it seem like seven

years

loneliness keeps hanging around my

door an only friend I can

lose every day is the

same the 24 hour blue

only

minut turn in

hour I keep hanging by the

telephone you don't call me I get time

be spend another sleepers night alone

oh I can't sing get myself

together without you all bad

new every J the

same the 24 hour

oh

you don't hurry on back to

me then and I have nothing

Le

sh

W the 24 hour

blue every day is the

same the 20

oh

la

louder thank you Joe what an

unbelievable performance louder for Joe

coming up get ready for a Soulful and

electrifying performance from one of my

favorite people and co-writers and

artists alive the PowerHouse vocalist

and songwriter money

long coming up but now trailblazing

musician composer and sitar virtuoso she

has redefined Global music with her

artistry and profound connection to

tradition nominated for best new age

ambient or chant album and for best

Global Music performance please welcome

the

extraordinary 11 time Grammy nominee

Anushka

Shanker thank thank you Justin hello

everyone it's a pleasure to be here

again with you all this room look at it

I mean it's filled with artists who

genuinely amaze me you make music that

is vital uplifting and so inspiring so

thank you for what you

do yeah thank you yes don't forget to

scan the QR code on your screen so you

can follow along today with our event

it's truly incredible to witness a stage

like this filled with such amazing

artists and if you've been nominated

today congratulations remember you have

already achieved so much good

luck here are the next

categories for best country solo

performance the nominees

are

Beyonce jelly

roll Casey Musgraves

shabzi Chris

Stapleton and the Grammy goes

to Chris Stapleton

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best country duo group

performance the nominees are Kelsey

ballerini and Noah

Khan Beyonce and Miley

Cyrus Brothers

Osborne Dan and

Shay post loone and Morgan

Wallen and the Grammy goes to Beyonce

featuring Miley

Cyrus congratulations

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best country song the

nominees

are Shane melli Casey Musgraves and Josh

Osborne Sean Cook Collins obina shabui

and Nevan

sastri Casey Brown Jason Deford Ashley

Goring and Taylor Phillips

Lewis Bell Ashley gorley Hoskins Austin

post Ernest Smith Ryan basac Morgan

Wallen and Chandler Paul

Walters Brian Bates AA bogs Beyonce

Elizabeth LEL Bolan Megan buo Nate

Ferraro and Rafael

sadik and the Grammy goes to Shane

mcanal Casey Musgraves and and John osor

Acy M

artist is that you there there you

come there she is

so much WoW gosh I did not expect that

um first of all I have the absolute best

team in the world I have the best fans

in the world and ultimately I just want

to say there's so much darkness in this

world right now and it just feels so

good to be able to fight some of that

Darkness through song and I I'm it's

such an honor thank

you for best American Roots performance

the nominees are Shem

copelan The Fabulous Thunderbirds Bonnie

R KB Mo Taj Mahal and Mick Fleetwood

Sierra

Ferrell ran and

giddens and the Grammy goes to Sierra

Ferrell

yikes thank you so much um you know I

forgot I got so caught up earlier from

the anxiety of uh winning something that

I actually forgot to think the most

important thing which is God and how

magical we all are as people and the

power of prayer is so powerful and don't

forget to say your

prayers also need to say uh thank you to

rounded records I didn't say that

earlier and um you know Casey musr said

it best like right before I caught up

here that there's a lot of Darkness

going on and it's good to be singing

songs to help people get through stuff

so I love you

all for best traditional Blues album the

nominees are Cedric

Burnside The Fabulous

Thunderbirds Sue

Foley little

feet the Taj Mahal sex stat

and the Grammy goes

to the Taj Mahal sex set

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wow thank you very much uh

Grammy you know I just uh this is this

is really this is really wonderful I uh

like to uh also uh give a shout out to

Teresa Knox at the uh um Church in Tulsa

and to Claudia lir who suggested me to

come there and make this recording and

to you who have always supported me

through my trials playing music and uh I

hope you say hi to my lovely daughters

on my arms

here we love you Dad Diva

Zoe thank you very much ladies and

gentlemen

for best contemporary Blues album the

nominees are Joe bonam

Masa shemika

Copeland Steve Cropper and the Midnight

Hour Ruthie

Foster Antonio

Vergara and the Grammy goes to Ruthie

Foster

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best mus urana album the

nominees are Bad

Bunny Jay Balin

fade

res young

Mo and the Grammy goes to residente

congratulations I will accept this on

their

behalf for best Latin rock or

alternative album the nominees are El

David

ail SEMA

Funk mon

laferte

nio raana

and the Grammy goes to raana

thank you thank

you nice to meet you guys we are raana

from Venezuela thank you thank

you thanks to all our team all our

collaborators um thank to all our fans

all over the world we are very happy

we're very pleased to be here thank you

thank you thank you and I'm going to

switch to Spanish uh with with your

permission

okay I'm compatriot

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fr

for best mus mexana album including Teo

the nominees are

cheis Karen

Leon PES

pluma Jessie urbe

and the Grammy goes to Karen

Leon congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their behalf

for best tropical Latin album the

nominees

are Mark

Anthony Sheila

E

Juan Tony suar Mimi

suar Kiki

Valera and the Grammy goes to Tony suar

and Mimi suai

n

wow this is

so powerful right now I was not prepared

for this this is a big surprise my

mother was a retired singer and she just

started her career two years ago because

she gave it all for us her children you

know she sacrificed all her life so this

is just an honor to be here with my mom

I want to thank Sheila E because you are

such an inspiration doing that album

with you was amazing all the nominees in

this category are legends and we are

just so humbled

hello um you should all move down get a

little closer fill in these seats

because this next performance is going

to change your life so get as close as

you can for

it with a voice that captivates and a

presence that commands the stage she

brings a fresh poignant energy to

everything she performs nominated for

four Grammys this year alone including

best R&B song Best R&B performance best

R&B album and best traditional R&B

performance one of the most talented

songwriters and singers of Our

Generation my friend please welcome The

One and Only Money

log looking around this

room can't see the the traces of you

this moment

is I can't put in

words no knows me like

you me why like you can't even deny it

every time I try it one look in my Lon

Lon

to

never like this again you were made for

me made for me yeah you were

made for

me you for

me it ain't every day every

day that I get in my feelings this way I

knew it

was cuz before you I never did care

don't know I would

do I had to go

on you

cuz I needed your baby and now I

got every time I

TR know

I'm to skin I'm never going like this

not again were made for

me you were made for just for

me like

you every time I try just look you

know going like this not

again you

were

for

me

yeah for me

yeah you

were me

for you were

made

for for

for me

stand up for money long stand up come

on give money the love she deserves come

on coming up next a masterful

performance from the legendary balaf

Fleck pushing the boundaries of sound

with his signature virtuosity but

first here is a chair ameritus of the

recording Academy and a music producing

and songwriting Legend ladies gentlemen

and everyone in between please welcome

five time Grammy Award winner Jimmy Jam

hey everybody Welcome nice to all be

here tonight and um I love that song chj

Thank you very much optimistic if you

guys have ever heard that song and that

song just reminds me of something I just

want to tell all the music creatives in

the

room music is what makes Heaven here on

Earth okay so all of you

angels we all need to grow our wings a

little bit bigger and flap them a little

bit harder okay that's my challenge for

everybody tonight okay as we create

music let's do

it please remember to scan our QR code

so you can follow along with the show so

let's go on and give some awards away

here are the next

categories for songwriter of The here

non-classical the nominees are Jesse

Alexander Amy

Allen Edgar

Vera Jesse Joe

Dylan

Ray and the Grammy goes to Amy Allen

n

hi wow

uh okay uh the child in me that was

starting writing songs when I was little

in Maine on my bed is like screaming and

crying and laughing at the absurdity of

this moment so thank you to the academy

um I didn't want to jinx this but I did

write a couple little tiny things cuz

I'm so forgetful so this is of course

only the third year songwriter of the

year has even been a category so this

award goes out to all of the Legends who

have soundtracked the lives and

generations with all of our stories you

should have been able to receive your

flowers back then so if you're listening

now this is for you and from the bottom

of my heart thank you very very much for

leading the way and giving us the gift

of your songs thank

you this award also belongs to my fellow

nominees in every single songwriter are

still out there fighting the good fight

without us there would be no songs for

anyone to win awards for and we are the

engine that FS the entire music industry

and have been so long under overlooked

and underappreciated goes without saying

we have a long way to go but I'm

endlessly grateful to be standing beside

you guys and be one of you and be on

this journey with you so thank you for

always putting your emotions on the

lines and letting me learn from you and

be one of your

peers I also want to say thank you to

every single artist who believes in me

and who allows me to help tell their

stories thank you to my publisher Ryan

Press my entire Warner Chapel team my

family gabs landman I love you guys I

know I'm getting boot off but thank you

I love you love you love you thank you

guys for best R&B performance the

nominees are Janae

iiko Chris

Brown Coco Jones

money

long

siza and the Grammy goes

too money long made for me

oh my God

okay because I'll be rambling I row I'm

down if you want a different future you

don't wait for a miracle you start

planting seeds

today if you want to change your life

you have to choose

yourself selfishness is actually the

highest form of

self-respect so if you're stuck in

yesterday's regrets or tomorrow's fears

put all your attention on what you can

do in this

moment one tiny thing I'm speaking from

experience you can do it you can

change you can be anything you want to

be but every new version of yourself

requires the death of the previous you

that said please stop calling me

Priscilla it's money long

now thank you so much for the recording

Academy all my fabulous teammates my

supporters my fans I love you all so

much thank

you for best traditional R&B performance

the nominees are Mara

ambrosus Kenyan

Dixon Lea Hathaway and Michael

McDonald money

long lucky

day and the Grammy goes

to that's you lucky day

all right I will uh make sure he gets

this for best R&B song the nominees

are diovana Frasier Alex goldblat Kalani

Parish Chris Ric tin and Daniel

Upchurch Ronald bful and tamy Le

OPI Sarah Diamond Sydney Floyd maryella

Jackson Courtney Jones Carl McCormick

and Kelvin

Wooton Jeff Gman Karen LX Priscilla

Renee and Kevin

Theodore Rob bisil Kean ducro Carter

Lang Solana row Jared Solomon and Scott

Z

and the Grammy goes

to Saturn

good good to finally meet this

guy oh thank you guys for uh having us

uh thank you to siza thank you to

everybody thank you to Rob thank you to

Carter dude thank you to everybody thank

you to Nick braw thank you to my parents

thank you to uh

Dan my manager and uh yeah just a shame

you know Carter just couldn't be here

today because uh he had something more

important to do it's too bad yeah thank

you to my parents thank you Kelly my

manager uh thank you la I just moved

here yesterday thank you

guys for best Progressive R&B album the

nominees

are Avery Sunshine

Durant

Bernar Childish

Gambino

Kanani no worries Anderson pack and

knowledge all right and the Grammy goes

to it's a

tie it's a tie just a second hold on

sorry so glad to know you

and white

L it's a TI

are you are you kidding me I

can't do I'm a m these are the shoes I

was going to wear but I wanted to run

baby take my shoes I love you so much I

can't really L my shoes

baby so quickly I well wait to pun iate

my 50th year of

life I'm officially feeling many things

at once thank you God thank you to the

recording Academy and everyone who voted

my husband my best friend my baby girl

who wrote and sang on the album Jameson

Ross who produced the album my son who

was out there my baby all my family my

sister flew in all my family uh my mommy

who's at home and

she my wonderful s

the genius musicians who worked on the

album Rob Milton Stephanie Emanuel my

agent Maria Matias Mara Davis my

publicist my recording Academy Atlanta

chapter this is a win for all the

independent Soul music artists we've

been working in the dark for a minute

but the light is shining somebody I'm so

glad to know you somebody better say

Amen in here

W

Lord wow wow wow wow wow thank you God

thank all of y'all this is beautiful

amazing

wow this the best birthday gift ever

um I want to thank knowledge for being

such a stellar producer this album was

really tough for me to make and it's

because of you I was able to take you

know tough times and turn them into

inspiration and therapy so thank you

knowledge thank you to my beautiful team

the ston Strow to Full Stop ape and

to the committe and to the fans thank

you so much we really appreciate it love

y'all for best R&B album the nominees

are Chris Brown

Lea

Hathaway money

long Lucky

Day

Usher all right and the Grammy goes

to Chris Brown

I will accept this Grammy on his

behalf for best rap performance the

nominees

are cardi

B common Pete Rock and

pastan

DOI Eminem

future Metro booman and Kendrick

Lamar glorilla

Kendrick

Lamar and the Grammy goes to Kendrick

Lamar

wow uh what a uh I would like to say man

Kendrick l man one of the greatest

artists of all time and especially being

from the west coast and uh he performed

his ass off on that song didn't he um

shout out to PG Lane God uh 10 Summers

my whole team Kendrick Lamar everybody

at TDE and uh God thank you to recording

Academy

too for best melodic rap performance the

nominees are Jordan aduni and colani

Beyonce Linda Martell and

shabzi future Metro boomman and the

weekend

Lotto Rap City and Erica

vadu and the Grammy goes

to rap city featuring Erica Badoo

firstly thank you God wow this is

incredible um I want to thank S1 Lone

Star uh I want to thank terce Martin

Amber nain uh I want to thank rapsy

Erica Badu um I made what became the

foundation of this song in my living

room wishing I was in a studio on an old

MacBook and look at us dreams come

true dreams come true thank you so much

for best rap song the nominees

are Marana

Evans Jordan Carter Raul kabina Grant

Dickinson Samuel Linley nir pton Dimitri

Roger Ty doign Kanye West and Mark Carl

stalinsky

Williams Kendrick Lamar Kobe baby Kobe

Hood Leland Wayne and Nadia

Wilburn Kendrick

Lamar Ronnie Jackson Jaz low Timothy

McKibbon Kevin Andre price Julius Rivera

III and Gloria

woods and the Grammy goes

too not like us

uh okay um man again man my mom and my

sister are here this their first award

show ever um I don't even know what to

say cuz I didn't plan nothing I plan to

just let God speak through me but uh my

my girl Britney's here I love you so

much moo Noah Kendrick Lamar I'm sorry

Kendrick Lamar PG Lane the whole PG Lane

sea momberger is here man uh the

recording Academy thank you man I

appreciate it that's number two let's

get

it for best music video the nominees

are ASAP Rocky van Heyman gal muja and

naton shotten

bells Charlie XCX Aiden Samir Jamie Aro

and Evan

thick Eminem Rich Lee Kathy angat Lisa

Ariana and Justin

Diner Kendrick Lamar Dave free Jack

beggar Cornell Brown Sam caner Jared

hiny Jamie raveno and Anthony

s Taylor Swift host Malone and Jill

Harden

all right and the Grammy goes

to not like us Kendrick

Lamar Jamie Jamie

Jamie I don't know uh Jamie wow uh it's

my girl Jamie you know what I'm saying

it's ah man that video man incredible

man again Kendrick Lamar PG Lane Dave

free uh all my team Jamie uh man it's

just been really really good we

appreciate it thank you to recording

Academy God of course from all of us at

PG Lang thank you to the recording

Academy let's get it

three for best music film The nom

are John batist Matthew heinan Lauren

Domino and jodan

Oaken Kristen bario Josh Mattis Sarah

Olen Jason Owen and Mary

Robertson Run DMC Kirk Frasier Dan

Goodman Brian Hunt and William H

Masterson

theii Steven vanent Bill Tech Robert

Cotto and David

fiser bow win Bruce eskowitz George

hanen Larry Klein juliia Nottingham

Lionel Richie and Harriet

Sternberg and the Grammy goes

to American Symphony

I will make sure that uh John gets this

thank you everybody oh wait oh wait oh

hold on hold that thought hold that

thought I see people approaching the

stage this could be a good thing

sorry for the slow walk up there um

we're deeply honored to receive this

award from the recording Academy I can

not have made this film without my

amazing producing Partners Lauren and

Jordan our mentally talented filmmaking

team and our steadfast partners and

Netflix Higher Ground and Mercury

Studios this feels like a very full

circle moment for for me in 2022 I snuck

into the Grammys with an iPhone as John

be's guest to capture his big night

winning album of the year to be back

three years later with this award is uh

just

surreal American symphony is about many

things to me but at its core it's a

story of love resilience in the healing

power of music I want to thank John and

sulea for their courage for their

inspiration this recognition is for them

thank

you redefining the art of modern AC

capella with his groundbreaking

arrangements and unmatched creativity he

has become a driving force in the world

of vocal music his talent earned him a

nomination this year for best

arrangement instrumental or AC capella

please welcome three time Grammy winner

and fellow homosexual Scott

Ho thank you Justin I am honored to be a

part of this celebration this world

needs our music and our lyrics of hope

so let's get involved it's definitely in

our hands to keep music alive please

remember to scan the QR code on your

screen so you can follow along with our

Grammy Premiere

ceremony

who I'm

sorry the prompter said ad

lib and now I'm realizing that means

something different for a singer then

anyways good luck to all and here are

the next

categories for best traditional pop

vocal album the nominees are

s

em Nora

Jones Lake Street

Dive Aaron

Lazar Gregory

Porter the Grammy goes to I'm

nervous Visions Nora Jones

a

so much thank you so much um I would

love to say thanks to Leon Michaels for

um making this record with me I love

making music with you we had so much fun

making this record thanks to Yan younger

Alex D Turk everyone who played on the

record um John Silva everyone at Sam

Hillary Esther Brittain blue note

records every one who has supported me

my whole life and career and thanks to

the fans for still listening I am so

grateful to be here thank

you for best children's music album the

nominees are lucky Diaz and the family

jam

band Lucy kentari and the Jazz

cats John

Legend Rock for children

Divinity rocks and DB rocks

kids and the Grammy goes to Brio Brio

lucky Diaz and the family Jam bam

oh my gosh um

you know

uho Meo De Los Angeles and this and our

record represents Us in this time of

great division we must come together and

this is what music is really at the core

of right dreams this B this city is

built on dreams dreamers and immigrants

and I am so proud to be a first genen

meico and I'm so proud of this record

I'm so proud of uh the record we made

together Kenny seagull you produced a

gorgeous record Michael fargus you're

not here in New York my beautiful wife

and partner for 16 years is our

anniversary so I don't know if we'll

ever beat this but I'm so grateful um

there's so many people to thank Robert

ibok um producer um and just all the

beautiful people that make music for

children it's such an important vocation

and a craft that I take so seriously and

dear to my heart I can't actually

believe that I'm in front of you all I'm

so proud of this te I can believe it we

worked really hard and really long and

the artists we must keep going together

Los Angeles want to thank our management

Roger arenis his whole team and um and

you all hey thank

you for best comedy album the nominees

on

are Ricky

Jes Dave

Chappelle Jim

gaigan Niki

Glazer Trevor

Noah and the Grammy goes to the dreamer

Dave Chappelle

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best audiobook narration and

storytelling recording the nominees are

guy

Oldfield George

Clinton Dolly

Parton Jimmy

Carter Barbara strice

end and the Grammy goes to last Sundays

in Plains a centennial celebration Jimmy

Carter

um

way to go to Kabir it's a good way to

say it at the beginning um my name is

Jason Carter my grandfather uh was

incredibly important to

me

and lately over these last few weeks we

felt this enormous outpouring of love

from all around the world from many of

the people in this room and I I just

want to say that having his words

captured in this way for my family uh

and for the world is truly remarkable

and I think really means so much at this

moment in our history as a country as a

world uh to bring people together to

preach that love and kindness and Kabir

has been a part of our family and close

with our family for a long time so Kabir

seagull had this idea put it together

and so we just want to say thank you to

the academy uh to this long list of

remarkable people John Baptist is on

this record KB Mo Leanne ryes Darius

Rucker uh Nicole um oh my gosh Nicole

zaras

um the creative team Doug Davis uh Paul

AB uh AB jinos um rager seagull Steve

schner my new old friend Jonathan alter

RP Eddie Michelle Caruso Cabrera

Jacqueline Saturn virgin music Lauren

gay maratha Baptist Church y'all which

is a tiny Country Church where my

grandfather taught Sunday school for 30

times per year for 50 years and this

brings it home in such a real way uh

thank you to the folks at the Carter

Center we really appreciate all of you

very very

much for best recording package the

nominees

are Scott Avid Johnny Black and Georgia

Sage Sarah dods and Shauna

dods Charlie XCX Brent David freeny and

imma jeene

Strauss Archie Lee coats I fourth

Jeffrey Franklin Bobby Greenleaf Blossom

Le KY McMahon Anna Cecilia Thompson Moda

and Austin

post Kate Bush and Albert

Macintosh Andrew Wong and Julie

yay Lee

petsu and the Grammy goes

to brat Charlie XX BR David Frey and

imagine Strauss

thank

you thank you this one is for Charlie

this was all her idea we love her so

much I can't believe it it's such a

surreal moment and thank you for

everything I don't

know brat Summer Forever brat Summer

Forever thank you

for best boxed or special limited

edition package the nominees are Nick

azus and Mike

Hicks Kate Bush and Albert

McIntosh Doug Cunningham and Jason

Noto Simon Hilton and sha Ono

Lenin takahiro kurashima and morett

pvy Rebecca AR and barbad kokabi

and the Grammy goes to mind games Simon

Hilton and Shan Ono lenen

hi everybody I'm going to do the names

and then he's going to do the spirit we

would like to sincerely thank the

academy for this great honor you didn't

arrange that what are you talking about

the spirit in celebrating our love

letter to John and Yoko thanks to our

fantastic teams at

UMR Studio 1 gz UCP and Loud beings to

fanan Paul McGee Drew TS Alex Aken Ed

Fairburn Bob gruin Darren Evans James

fundel Carla Maryfield and S Henry the

plastic ufon no band who reunited to

help us with this project 50 years later

to Jonas herbsman Adam Barker and Hannah

nees at UMR for encouraging us to pursue

the absolute best qualities and highest

standards possible to our families Lucen

amily and Annabel Charlotte Kyoko Emmy

Jack Julian and Yoko and a massive thank

you to John and Y

may your mind games keep raising the

spirit of peaceful love for many many

years to come oh that's thank you Simon

I'm very grateful to you for having

remembered all those names um I just

want to say that it was a great honor

for me to uh work on the music of my

father and you know John and yoko's

message of peace and love I feel like

it's still very important so I'm going

to really work my hardest to keep the

Beatles and John Lennon's music out

there in the world

and finally you know I'm getting I'm

getting older in my middle age and I

just wanted to give some advice to the

young people out there never get into a

rap battle with Kendrick

Lamar thank

you for best album notes the nominees

are Tim

Brooks Lauren

dgraph Ricky ricardi

Dominic

B Josh

and the Grammy goes to Centennial

Ricky ricardi

uh thank you uh let's hear it for album

notes um big thank thanks to the

producers of Centennial Rich Martin

Megan Hennessy uh for making the music

of King Oliver sound better than ever

before um wow Grammy man's going to be

insufferable uh um I want to dedicate

this to the Lewis Armstrong House Museum

uh and all institutions that are

dedicated to Black History all year

round uh this is for

them and my family my family watching

back in New Jersey I'm sure they uh

scream yeah Jersey let's here for

Jersey I love cheap Applause I'm sorry U

but my parents 30 years ago this year my

parents brought me to the Ocean County

Library to check out a lewi Armstrong

cassette changed my life nothing's ever

been the same so want to thank them my

daughters Ella Melody and Lily I just

want them to know this is great but it's

second place compared to that world's

greatest fter mug that they got me for

Father's Day and my wife Margaret this

is the 21st anniversary of our first

date and I never told her I would win a

Grammy but we're still here even though

I still always leave the shower curtain

open I apologize for that um but just

again thank you so much thank you to

obos Donuts thank you to the Tom over

North football team thank you to

everybody watching back home and say it

with me pops is tops thank

you for best historical album The

nominees

are Megan Hennessy and Richard

Martin L londelle McMillan Charles F

Spicer Jr Dwayne tall Brad Blackwood

Bernie grundman and Chris

James Tom lasy Shaina L Redmond Susan

Robison Robert Russ Nancy coni and

Andreas k

meyer Pepe de Lucia Javier dya and Jesus

baola

Mike monino Mark Piro and Steve

genck and the Grammy goes to Centennial

Megan Hennessy and Richard Martin

thanks so much thanks to the academy all

the voters all our colleagues who are

good friends in the uh historical

category with us let's hear it for

historical historical uh want to thank

uh want to thank Papa Joe Oliver and Lil

L Lewis Armstrong for making this great

music thank our scribe Ricky ricardi who

you just heard want to thank um some uh

advisers Colin Hancock and Mark

barisford want to thank uh generous

record collectors who make the rarest

stuff available for us to restore and

reissue Dave janoni John Levan uh Doug

Benson Dave Sager Ryan Bara the late

Marty

Alexander and

um want to say You archeophone Records

is committed to telling the truth about

our history and we're not going to stop

that and now to the best co-producer my

wife Megan hennon thank you to the

recording Academy for having categories

that honor art notes history and

scholarship thank you thanks

before I introduce the next icon to

perform two housekeeping things one if

you could keep the aisles clear so the

nominees can make an easy way that would

be wonderful and two come on closer come

on down fill in these seats the next

performer is too good to be that far

away come on

down

redefining what the banjo can do he's

pushed boundaries of music blending

Bluegrass Jazz and classical with

unmatched virtuosity this year his

groundbreaking work has earned him five

Grammy nominations five come

on for best contemporary instrumental

album best jazz instrumental album best

arrangement instrumental are a capella

and best improvised Jazz solo please

welcome the legendary

17 17 time Grammy awardwinning artist

Baya Fleck

the

o

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on what an incredible performance pure

Brilliance and unmatched Artistry in a

few three divas and a master take the

stage for a breathtaking performance

that blends power passion and pure

operatic Excellence please stay tuned

but now this legendary producer and mix

engineer has shaped the soundtracks of

our lives collaborating with music's

biggest icons and crafting Timeless

masterpieces nominated this year for

best surround sound Album please help me

welcome two time winner Bob Clear

Mountain

thank you Justin hello everybody first

of all how amazing is Baya

Flack just blew my

mind if you're just joining our stream

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follow along with the

show I am humbled to be part of this

tribute to our resilience and our sense

of community losing my home in studio

the in the fires was a heartbreaking

experience I consider myself fortunate I

had another place to go yet so many

fellow artists weren't so lucky many

lost everything their homes their

instruments their Studios the very

spaces where they their creativity

thrived that's what being part of the

fire Aid benefit concert meant so much

more than presenting music it is a way

to give back to help rebuild lives and

to remind those who have lost so much

that they are not alone and not only

that but I got this great

t-shirt um I'm deeply grateful to the

recording Academy and music cares for

stepping up not merely with words but

with real meaningful action our

community stands together lifting each

other up in times of Crisis music has

always been a force for resilience

healing and Hope

through these efforts we're ensuring

that every affected artist has the

support resources and strength to keep

creating no matter what the music never

stops and neither does our commitment to

one

another let let us continue shall we

good luck to all of the nominees let's

give some more Grammys here are the next

category

for producer of the year non-classical

the nominees are

Alicia dur Ste mile Emil

II Ian

fitchuk

mustard Daniel

Nigro and the winner is is Daniel negro

thank you so

much all right I'll make this short I

would like to thank my wife

Emily my daughter sersa my manager Ian

Island Records inter scope Chapel

rone Olivia

Rodrigo Dana

meerson Sony

Thomas Scout Katie

Nick um and lastly my friend Justin

raisen who we grew up together we

started hanging out when we were 5 years

old and I got him into guitar he got me

into production we're both here tonight

I think because of each other probably

so thank

you by the way that pure percussion

Brilliance that you just witnessed on

stage is none other than Tammy

H she's our Unstoppable chair of the

recording Academy as she wraps up her

final year with us we're giving her the

sendoff she deserves center stage in

full force owning the

moment with Boundless Energy unmatched

Rhythm and a passion that drives this

industry forward give it up for Tammy

HT let's hand out some more

Grammys for best rock performance the

nominees

are The

Beatles The Black

Keys Green

Day idols

Pearl

Jam St

Vincent and the winner of Best Rock

performance is I've heard of these guys

The Beatles

a

okay JN is supposed to be here but he's

not here well you know since no one's

coming up to take this award I figured

I'd I'd come and sit in

um I uh really didn't expect to be

accepting this W on behalf of my

father's group The Beatles but um it's

really incredible if you think about it

man I mean the Beatles have done so much

incredible work and they're still in the

culture and people still listen to the

music and it's you know as far as I'm

concerned it's the greatest band of all

time

so um I I think I was supposed to be

here with Jes Martin who mixed this uh

with Paul and he did an incredible job

um I don't know uh I just want to say

you know play The Beatles music to your

kids I feel like the world can't afford

to forget about people like the Beatles

like we need this music in the world we

need peace and love and we need the

magic of the 60s to stay alive

so for best medal performance the

nominees

are Gojira Marina viot and Victor

leemon Judith

Priest knock loose and

Poppy

Metallica Spirit Box

and the Grammy goes to MIAA

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their behalf as they're not

there

no come back

that oh well oh well uh thank you very

much it took us a long time to we were

sitting back there we extremely U

excited to receive this uh this award we

had um uh the privilege to uh perform at

the Olympic ceremony um with Marina and

Victor um so this is a a great day for

us obviously here it

is we want to dedicate this uh this

award to all the bands that are pushing

the boundaries support your local

artists support your local bands uh

because that's where it's at and they're

they're inspiring us to continue so but

thank you very much for for

this for best rock song the nominees

are Dan arbach Patrick Carney Beck

Hansen and Daniel

Nakamura Annie

Clark Jeff EMT Matt Cameron Stone goser

Mike mccre Eddie betterer and Andrew

watt Billy Joe Armstrong Mike dur and

Trey

Co John beas Mark Bowen Adam devire Lee

Kieran and Joe talbet

and the Grammy goes to Broken Man

wow thank you so much this is this is

just a delight this is a real a real

Delight uh first I want to thank my

beautiful family my beautiful wife Leia

and our beautiful

daughter and uh in the making of this uh

song and this record my boy Kean

Reen W engineered crushed it believed in

me when I was all up uh in my own head

and um all the players on this song we

got Justin mild Johnson we got Mark

Juliana we got Dave Gro

uh David riy on the way out uh saak solo

my Sam team uh John Silva and Co thank

you so much and uh to the fans and all

the people just doing this

so thank you so much very

kind for best rock album the nominees

are The Black Crows

fontaine's

DC Green

Day

Idols Pearl

Jam the Rolling

Stones Jack

White and the Grammy goes to Hackney

diamonds Rolling Stones

wow this is absolutely amazing uh talked

to Mick yesterday I just wanted to say a

big thank you to the academy from the

entire band Mick Keith Ron um for a

little boy that grew up playing guitar

it was one of the most amazing

experiences to be around those musicians

um I also want to say a big thank you to

my engineer Paul uh you can't make an

album without a great engineer as you

know and um yeah Pearl Jam's also here

and they kick

ass for best alternative music

performance the nominees are Cage the

Elephant Nick Cage and the Bad

Seeds fontaine's

DC Kim

Gordon St

Vincent and the Grammy goes to flee St

Vincent

that's so nice I do have a devil's

haircut in my mind that is that is

always happening uh uh thank you this is

another song this is flee and all the

same thank you uh on the first one they

apply but they apply double so I don't

have to say it say them again my family

my friends I love you

dearly

um Dave Gro is on this track Ken Rearden

is on this

track Justin meldale Johnson's on this

track I played some guitar sang a little

bit

um that's all I got thank you so much

this is very nice it's an embarrassment

of

riches for best alternative music album

the nominees are

Nick Cave and the Bad

Seeds

claro Kim

Gordon Brittany

Howard St

Vincent and the Grammy once again all

born screaming St Vincent

um thank you so much um I I want to say

uh to every other nominee in this

category you rip I love you all

so much so it's an honor just to be in

the same world where you all exist um

again thank you to my beautiful wife Lea

a beautiful daughter this record was a

obviously a labor of love and uh making

records is like uh building a house when

you have no floor plans and you don't

know what wood or concrete is

so um another huge thank you to my boy

Kian Rearden engineer

extraordinaire for doing the damn thing

all the music s i I haven't thanked yet

my dear friend Kate Lebon who was very

helpful in the making of This Record one

of my favorite artists of all time

songwriters of all time and uh I just I

just so appreciate it this is just this

is just just very very kind so thank you

so much everybody love

you for best compolation soundtrack for

visual media the nominees are Nick

Baxter Blitz Basa Wy Steven Bray Jordan

Carroll and Morgan

rhods Dave Jordan sha Levy and Ryan

Reynolds Bradley Cooper Yanik n ziga

Jason rder and Steven

gazi emerald finel and Kirsten

Lane Ian Crips Brandon Davis Joe Cory

Kevin weer Mike noblock and Rachel Levy

and the Grammy goes to Maestro music by

Leonard Bernstein

this is a shock and I'm completely ill

prepared uh I Al I just want to say that

the film and TV music Community is

really small and I'm nominated here with

some some of my friends and heroes and

it's just an honor to be with them um I

guess first and foremost I think my

husband uh who we came downtown and he

forgot his pants this has been an

adventurous day um but first of I want

to thank Bradley Cooper our fearless

leader who was literally Fearless there

was never a mountain that was too high

we just kept climbing together uh my

fellow nominees uh Nick backer and

yanique and uh Jason who are just

Geniuses and this record like Nick mixed

the hell out of this record it sounds

great I really recommend that you listen

to it I want to thank the Netflix music

team uh we have Tori and Amy here and

Marissa is not here and Sarah and Lily

who tee this thing up just brilliant

wonderful people and um the the lso we

spent a week almost a week in El

Cathedral um listening to the lso and

choir playing uh mer for days upon days

and it was just really truly an honor to

be around that and I just don't know

what to say this is amazing thank you so

much bless you bye take

care for best score soundtrack for

visual media includes film and

television the nominees are Laura

Cartman Trent resner and attakus

Ross Chris

Bowers Han

Zimmer Nick chuba attakus Ross and

Leopold

Ross and the Grammy goes to Dune part

two Han Zimmer composer

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on uh on hans's he's a friend of

mine actually uh on on his behalf thank

you for best score soundtrack for video

games and other interactive media the

nominees are P

topra bear mccre

John

Pano Wilbert Ro

II Winfred

Phillips and the Grammy goes to Wizardry

Proving Grounds of the Mt Overlord

winter Fred Phillips

oh dear lord

I want to I first I want to thank the

academy All You Beautiful People I love

every single one of you you've been so

kind to me and I want to thank um the

developers digital Eclipse who believed

in me and especially Jeff nocow who

hired me for this project God I love him

he really has given me so much creative

opportunity and it's been wonderful I

want to thank my music producer Winnie

Waldren she shines her bril on all my

projects and I'm and I'm eternally

grateful and I just love to thank all of

you for for believing in music for games

and for recognizing it and for breathing

life and enthusiasm and energy into what

we do it means so

much thank

you for best song written for visual

media the nominees are Jesse Alexander

Luke Holmes and Jonathan

Singleton Amy Allen shellbach and Justin

Timberlake Daniel Nigro and Olivia

Rodrigo John batist and Dan

Wilson Walter afanasia Charlie midnight

Cara talby and Han Zimmer

and the Grammy goes to it never went

away from American Symphony John ba Dan

Wilson and joh

I love this

wow um I'm going to save us time

all the stuff I said up here last year

it's still

true um thanks to the

academy uh mostly want to thank John and

suica for letting me be part of telling

their Amazing Story and that and

that incredibly inspiring

movie I'd also like to thank my Los

Angeles family and my Minneapolis family

and my Guam

family and uh my Los Angeles songwriting

and music mus a community I feel so

lucky to be part of it even now more so

than ever so thank you so

much for best engineered album

non-classical the nominees are DST Emil

II Michael B Hunter Jordan Johnson

Stefan Johnson Rachel Keane John KY

Charles monis Todd Robinson and Colin

Leonard

Jack emblem Jack Roshan Charlotte day

Wilson and Chris

garinger Craig Alvin sha Everett mayi

lease Todd Lombardo John Rooney Conrad

Snyder Daniel Tashan and Greg

calby beatric arola Zack Brown Oscar

gorneo Chris GTI Mitch McCarthy Adam

Scher Willow Smith and Joe

laporta Chad Blake olly Jacobs Katie May

Dom shaww Mark Spike stent and Matt

Colton Bryce bordone Julian benetta

serban gania Jeff gunnel olly Jacobs Ian

Kirkpatrick Jack Manning Manny maroin

John Ryan Laura cisk Nathan danler and

Rory

orl the the Grammy goes too yes Chad

Blake Ollie Jacobs uh Katie M for iio

Don show Mark Spike St

Engineers all my friends

wow thank you so much firstly Bob Clear

Mountain everyone what an honor to be

presented and award by such a Legend um

I wrote a few things down first I'm

going to put my phone on do not disturb

uh uh so firstly there are a lot of our

friends in the crowd nominated this

category I love all you guys um some

incredible records this year um I want

to thank everyone on stage uh Katie Dom

uh Chad Spike Matt Fay buff Dicky and

all of the assistants and Engineers who

worked on this record and everyone at

real world Studios we love you guys um

pza Gabriel is a one-of-a-kind artist

and the trust that he puts in his

Engineers is amazing um he will record

anything from the coffee mug in front of

him to his dog barking

and he will try his best to turn that

into an instrument um which might

explain why this record took 20 years to

make

but it doesn't matter to him if he's

worked on a song for a day or in the

case of some of these songs nearly 20

years uh he pursues Perfection always

and he's taught all of us to be better

Engineers I'm so humbled to have been

part of this process along with all the

incredible Engineers on stage with me uh

I'd love to thank the recording Academy

and everyone who voted for us this truly

means the world thank you so much

her poetry ignites change and inspires

action her voice resonates deep within

the Collective Soul Awakening a powerful

force for transformation nominated for

best spoken poetry Album please welcome

another fellow homosexual Queen Sheba

thank you Justin hello

everyone I feel truly honored to be here

this afternoon please remember to scan

the QR code on your screen so you can

follow along with your Grammy premere

ceremony I have been here since Tuesday

and I'm honored to see the efforts of

the music cares fire relief program I

want to congratulate all of the nominees

and I dying to say and the Grammy goes

to so let's get to these next

categories for best jazz performance the

nominees

are the Baylor

project Lisha Benjamin Randy Breer Jeff

tane watts and John scoffield

chick Korea and Baya

Fleck Samra joy and Sullivan

forner Dan pugach big band Nicole zarius

and Troy

Roberts and the Grammy goes to Samra Joy

featuring salivan partner

my goodness my God thank you thank you

so much I want to shout out my wonderful

parents in the audience Janice and

Antonio McLendon thank you for always

always supporting always growing up my

dad and my mom went to every single one

of my plays musical theater and choir

you know uh performances and whatnot I

want to thank Sullivan forner the

awesome incredible musician that he is I

can't wait to collaborate with you again

thankk you all so much thank you to this

community I am so honored to be a part

of this thank you to every other nominee

in this category I'm inspired by you and

I just want to say thank you thank you

thank you so thank you to you

all for best jazz vocal album the

nominees

are Christy

Dil Kurt Elling and Sullivan

forner Samra

Joy Milton asento and esparanza

Spalding Catherine Russell and Shawn

Mason and the Grammy goes to a joyful

holiday Samar Joy

oh my goodness oh my gosh thank you

again dang how did St Vincent do this

without well also being funny and and

Charming um thank you all so much one

more time I want to shout out all the

musicians who created this record with

me I want to shout out the McLendon

family my family Elder goldwire and Ruth

McLendon the patriarch and matriarch of

my family the saet of Philadelphia they

trickled all of this musical Legacy down

to my cousins and my aunts and uncles my

uncle Rooney my aunt py my uh Uncle

Kenny and Aunt Beverly up in heaven this

family means everything to me it means

everything to be able to highlight what

I come from the stock that I come from

and be able to highlight who inspires me

the most thank you to all the once again

all the nominees in this category I love

you I love your music thank you thank

you for your contributions thank you for

inspiring me and I will see you soon God

bless you all thank

you for best Jazz instrumental album the

nominees

are Ambrose Aken muser Bill friselle and

hurin

Riley Kenny Baron kioshi Kagawa Jonathan

Blake Emanuel Wilkins and Steve

Nelson Lakisha

Benjamin chick Korea and Baya

Fleck Sullivan forner

and the Grammy goes to

remembrance cha and Bella black

wow holy cow this is lyanna Kia chick's

daughter wanted you to know um during

the pandemic I got a call from chick he

said I'm bored let's play some musical

games and we started creating music back

and forth during the pandemic that went

with some live recordings we did a

little while ear earlier that's where

this record came from this is Junu who

the first uh song was named after this

is

Lanna thank you my father expressed a

deep wish that his legacy continue so he

could keep inspiring others with his

music and this award today is helping

him do this we are deeply grateful to

the academy to his gifted friend Baya

and to all of you and Dad I just want to

thank you again for your tireless

passionate dedication to your music I

will never forget you I will love you

forever thank you very

much for best large Jazz Ensemble album

the nominees are John Beasley and

Frankfurt radio big

band The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra

Orin Evans and the captain black big

band Dan pugach big

band Miguel

sonon and the Grammy goes to

Bianca music for PA and persistance

oh wow

okay okay

congratulations let me get out of

wayy wow okay

um wrote out wrote down a few words um

Bianca reimagine is a our 18 piece big

band album inspired by our late uh

rescue dog Bianca who pulled out we

pulled out from a city shelter uh it's

an honor to be in La witnessing the

resilience of the music Community I'll

never forget uh when my dad took me to a

record store in La when I was 10 and

bought my first uh Big B album uh thank

you to the rescue groups including

pasadina um who work 24-hour a day

helping animals affected by the

wildfires and spreading uh the word

about the importance of uh fostering

shelter pets uh they are the true heroes

uh this honor means the world and the

like to thank the recording Academy at

the New York Chapter and the fellow

nominees uh in the category uh my genius

wife Nicole zorus and musical partner um

the musicians playing in my big band for

over 15 years who traveled from New York

City uh Nick finser at outside in music

my family who traveled from Tel Aviv and

my in-laws from the East Coast um the

amazing engineer at Bunker Studio Aon

Ney and Alex The Turk um thank you to

Susan Bloomberg to be in my jaos

workshop and the cafe Royale cultural

Foundation thank you so much this

is for best Latin jazz album the

nominees

are Michelle camoo and

tomatito zakai Curtis Lucas Curtis

Willie Martinez Camilo Molina and raldo

De

Jesus amand and gono

rava elani

Ellas aaso El negro Hernandez John

Beasley and Jose

goola Chucho Valdez and Royal

quartet Donald Vega Louis Nash John

patatuchi and luisito

Quintero and the Grammy goes

to cop lives

oh

n

thank you very much want to thank God

first of all I have a little list let's

see if I can put it together uh we're

honored to be able to accept this and be

able to contribute to an amazing part of

America's classical music I want to

thank you all the U listening musical

family and everybody that worked on this

record shout out to Ted Curtis for

producing it and thanks to Donald

Harrison and Eddie pmti for being an

amazing

guidance uh but uh thank you all and

thank the whole

band I want to say thank you to the

academy and to all the musicians out

there and I want to dedicate this to to

my mother in Puerto Rico uh

mommy Spanish sorry

Mom okay

mariaa and and Jasmine and jolanda

myo

Alex for best alternative Jazz album the

nominees are arou

ofab Andre

3000 Robert

Glasper Keon Herold

Michelle Indio

cello and the Grammy goes to Michelle

andell no more water the gospel of James

Baldwin

thank you so much thank you James

Baldwin thank the estate for letting us

make music from his beautiful mind thank

you Allison Riley thank you Don W Blue

Note thank you for changing the

narrative in my life this is a really

great experience Chris Bruce couldn't

have done it without you Justin Hicks

kenita Hicks um Abraham rounds jebin

bruny Jacob Sherman Julius Rodriguez

Josh

Johnson um Stacy and Chin just so

grateful um just so grateful give thanks

alhamdulillah

for best contemporary instrumental album

the nominees are Taylor

iy Baya

Fleck Bill friselle Alexander Hansen

russels Phil harmonic Rudy Royston and

Thomas

Morgan Mark

Juliana Julian Lodge

and the Grammy goes to plot armor

thank you so much it's a massive honor

to be recognized with Bay La Fleck Bill

friselle and two my close friends Mark

Juliana and Julian LJ who played so

beautifully on my album as well plot

armor was made possible through the

shared vision of Josh Juna right here

love science and my brilliant friend

Andrew ballow thank you to the Superstar

mus musicians who made this music with

me Gretchen parlat Lisa fiser Terence

Blanchard Becca Stevens Ben Wendell

Julian LJ Dana Stevens David ginyard

Charles Alura Oscar seon Maya kronfeld

Harish ragavan Kendrick Scott Benny Von

gsight Rebecca Kleinman Stephanie U Mia

Barcia Columbo Karin selasi and Jules

Levy love you all I'm so grateful to

Eric ly Caitlyn Asia Tiffany Mike and

everyone with groundup music for

believing in me and huge thanks to the

Academy tandre Kemp Lydia lemman Eric

Harland Nick Reese Randy Norman Joseph

Kim Austin white Claudia Meyer all of my

close friends and Marta bagratuni the

love of my life this is dedicated to my

mother Nancy I who is watching from from

Heaven thank you so

much for best Global Music performance

the nominees

are AR Rouge

offb Jacob Collier a nushka shangar and

barri Vina

gal Rocky

duni Sheila E Gloria Stefan and Mimi

sukar Angelique kijo and Soto Gospel

Choir masat takumi Ron Corb ner Modi and

Dale Edward

Chung and the Grammy goes to

Sheila E featuring Gloria and Mimi

wow thank you so much um I'm truly

honored to receive this award uh the

very first time I was nominated was 40

years ago today

1985 just know that it's never too late

to keep doing and dreaming this goes to

my sisters as well Gloria Stefan Mimi

sugar um to Tony sugar for producing

this project with me uh to my team there

you

are glor Stefan MIM we we received this

together uh executive producer

Iris um my team wow there's so many

Stephanie and Ian Lynn uh Kim

everyone uh this

album was almost impossible to make but

just to explain to you real quickly that

this kind of music can't exist without

diversity people from Venezuela Peru

Japan Mexico Cuba Puerto

Rico the flavor the sauce from New

Orleans to Oakland

Oaktown we thank you so much God bless

you I thank you thank you God and thank

you to my parents Moms and Pops we got

one we got

one for best African music performance

the nominees are Yi

alad a shake and whiz

kid Chris Brown Davido and

loj verab

boy Temps

and the Grammy goes to

's love me he hey

so

whoa my heart is beating so fast I'm so

sorry I do I do work

out but it's not coming it's not showing

up right now

um wow dear God thank you so so much for

putting me on this stage and bringing me

this team and tomorrow is my mom's

birthday and this is her first

Grammys and I just want to thank you Mom

because she's really done a lot for me

and my my brother and um oh my goodness

happy birthday

Mom and I want to thank my team mu

W my beautiful stylist doing seem right

my lovely girls

Ivonne and relle and Kayla and Ashanti

and Sarah I love you guys thank you so

much to God be the glory because

honestly he's changed my

life so much thank you thank you so much

thank you

God for best Global music album the

nominees

are Matt B and Royal philarmonic or

C

Rema Antonio

Reay

temps and the Grammy goes to Matt be

featuring mat Royal Phil harmonic

Orchestra

wow

all Praises Glory and Honor be to the

most high yah shy Town stand up Africa

standup thank you to the voting body and

the recording Academy for this great

honor and to think that this journey

started off from An ancestry DNA test

and I found out that I was mostly

Nigerian this album was created as a way

of shining a light on Africa and the

Beautiful culture that we from the

diaspora come from I hope that this work

helps to bridge the gap between Africa

and America between Africans and

African-Americans I dedicate this Grammy

to my beautiful wife who stands before

me right

now God we thank you thank you for this

moment I stand here today representing

Africa I represent black women in music

I represent independent Talent my

husband and I created this label beta

records 11 years ago with a mustard seed

of faith and Big

Dreams it's so great to be here thank

you God Independent Artists don't don't

give up when Wonder closes 50

open thank you to my babies watching at

home Matthew Athena Noah I love you so

much thank you to the Royal philarmonic

the ABY Road Studios thank you to the

voting body thank you so much it means

so much thank

you for best reg album the nominees

are collie buds

Vibes

Cartel

Shenia various

artists the

Whalers and the Grammy goes to Bob

Marley One

Love music inspired by the

album various artists

Geor wow thank you thanks to all the

artists The Producers everyone at Island

records that brought this

together in the end of the day it's all

in tribute to really the greatest of all

time Bob Marley thank

you for best new age ambient or chant

album the nominees are Ricky

cage voter Kellerman eru matsum

and chandria

tun ruigi

Sakamoto Anushka

shangar Rika

vicaria and the Grammy goes

to travini

he

thank you so much this is amazing this

is testimon to the fact that music has

the power to unite and to heal thank you

chandria thank you AR and all the M muss

that were on the album big thank you to

tulsy best friend and business partner

and then most importantly to all of you

um music connects and this is a very

grateful to share this moment with

you oh my gosh thank you so much um

thank you so much recording Academy

thank you so much um oh my gosh I'm so

happy right now thank you so much

everyone who believed in this in this

album and project I want to especially

thank Aro and yamatak kusan from

Warehouse tracks my family sister ARA um

my mom is here my dad is here James I

love you thank you so much this project

was born out of our deep passion to um

um heal heal ourselves and transform

ourselves with the power of um music so

and this is gria thank you music is love

music is light and music is laughter and

let's all be surrounded by love light

and laughter and thank you for the music

and thank you for every one of you who

make the music

all right I saw this next performance in

rehearsal yesterday and it was possibly

the best vocal performance I have ever

seen please move down please move down

there are people all over the world that

would do anything to see what you're

about to see so please move

down three I IC artists and a Visionary

composer have come together to bring a

renowned Opera to life on the Grammy

Premiere stage nominated for best opera

recording this extraordinary work Stars

multiple Grammy award-winning and

nominated artists Renee Fleming Joyce D

Donato and Kelly O'Hara along yeah give

the Divas a round of applause

and composer Kevin puts lyrics by Greg

Pierce take it away

oh

God lord

we

heart of each heart of each

the and you are

not

not here is the world

you

are oh

you

TR

you try

try

to you

Up Stand Up

thank you to our incredible divas and

the brilliant Maestro behind it all what

a lifechanging

performance up next his original

compositions and seamless blending of

genres highlight his exceptional vocal

range and storytelling skills his

Dynamic performances have earned him a

Grammy nod for best musical theater

Album please welcome Wayne Brady

thank you thank you so much and thank

you Justin ladies and Gentlemen please

let's hear for Justin

please you've been killing it um I I

would just like to to say hello to

everyone watching and in this room all

of my fellow friends and artists um on

the red carpet we were asked why why it

was important for us to be here and the

thing that I kept hearing myself say

that I I heard echoed is it's great to

show up to get nominated for the award

later on they're going to be all these

acts everybody's doing this stuff but

the fact that you're here and we're here

together as one to celebrate not

ourselves but to pull together as a

community for all that's happened

recently I think that is one of the best

things that we could do as an artistic

community and we can prove everyone

wrong in the other parts of the country

that look at La in some kind of light

and say whatever they say so I'm glad

that you're here so let's continue to

support each

other uh hopefully we'll also get a

chance to create the songs that will

change the world good luck everyone here

are the next

categories for best engineered album

classical the nominees are Alexander Lee

and Dimitri Lee

Silas Brown Doran Shaker Michael Schwarz

and Matt

Colton Mark donu and John

Newton Daniel

Shores Alexander Lee and demitry

Lee and the Grammy goes

to Brookner Symphony Number Seven Bates

resur exit Mark Donahue John Newton

Engineers Mark donu mastering engineer

Manfred honik and Pittsburgh Symphony

Orchestra

I will accept this Grammy on their

behalf for producer of the Year

classical the nominees

are Erica

brener Kristoff Fran

Morton

Lindberg Dimitri

Lee Elaine

Marton Dirk

sabatka and the Grammy goes

to Elaine Marton

I would like to really really give my

heartfelt thanks

to my fellow nominees in this category I

so admire your work I look up to you and

I've listened to all of it it inspires

me Erica brener I love you so much

you're my partner in this in this uh in

this journey this is also for you um

Julie Smith at the recording Academy

thank you so much Julie you're our

fearless leader um I really really have

to thank my family Melissa masin Woods

is here with me tonight thank you so

much for standing by me I want a a big

shout out to my husband Bob Woods we're

on a very difficult Journey right now um

I hope you're watching Bob this is for

you thank you for giving me my wings and

um I must thank the Cleveland Orchestra

fans vam my uh and the whole

Administration there who believes in me

stands by me when I can hardly stand up

for myself my recording engineer gintas

Norva my other artists uh herard teser

um Shahar Israel um Mary Maran Ensemble

thank you so very much the Cincinnati

pops Orchestra John Morris Russell I

need to also really thank my other

caregivers Wendy Julie Julia Kimmy

this is for you thank you so much please

stand strong use your voice stand up

don't lay down to power keep us going

people thank

you for best immersive audio album the

nominees

are Bob Clear Mountain John Weber Rett

Davies and Brian

Ferry Michael Romanowski Eric Schilling

Herbert Wad and John

Burke Morton

Lindberg Hans Martin buff and Peter

Gabriel Morton

Lindberg and the Grammy goes

to IO inside mix h Martin buff Peter

Gabriel

wow um this is it's a huge

recognition for immersive music that

isn't a remake of something else but

something special it's a huge Musical

Adventure so I want to thank my fellow

adventurers most of all Mr Peta Gabriel

who's the biggest pirate I've ever met

on the high seas my fellow Pirates at

real world studios in England and at MSM

studios in

Germany um my parents were showing me

what an adventure is and how to go about

it my grand grandparents as well um I

want to thank Prince my mentor who

taught me how to fight for my

adventure and most of all I want to

thank my wife Patty who's gone on a date

with me 30 years ago just before I went

on a session the date isn't over and the

session isn't over either so thank you

so much have a great evening

bye-bye for best instrumental

composition the nominees are Shelton G

Burr Christopher

zuir Andre 3000 suria basina Nate Muro

and Carlos

Nino

Chia Pascal

lauff and the Grammy goes to

strands Pascal

leopolis reint Pascal leop and Christian

wow what an honor I didn't think this

would happen I didn't really prepare for

this too much um what can I

say I like what Samara Joy said about

recognizing people that Inspire us and

that's what this project is about Ralph

Allison says at the end of Invisible Man

something that resonated with me about

how

America is woven of many strands

let us recognize them and in this

project in the music it's about

recognizing Jerry Allen Charles Mingus

Dave Breck Lenard Leonard

Bernstein and I want to thank my wife

Molly Heron my twin brother Remy Lau my

family Acropolis Reed quintet Christian

y I love you

all that's it thanks all

for best orchestral performance the

nominees

are Marin

alop Joanne

feta Gustavo

dudamel Susana

melki Essa Pekka

solonin and the Grammy goes

to Ortiz revolu the amena Gustavo dudel

conductor Los Angeles

philarmonic congratulations I will

accept their this Grammy on their

behalf for best opera recording the

nominees

are John Adams Paul applebe Julia

Bullock head Jung Lee Daniela Mack

Elliot Mador Ryan mckin Devon tines and

Dmitri

Lee Yanik NAA Mario Chang Michael Ki

Greer Grimsley Nancy favola Matia

olivieri Eileen perz Gabriella Reyes and

David

Frost Gerard Schwarz Tristan Hallet cusi

Edward parks and Blandon

Alpa Yanik na zga joyy denado Renee

Fleming Kelly O'Hara and David

Frost Essa peka solonin Flor Baron axelo

Nicholas Pon Christopher pvis and Jason

oconnell and the Grammy goes to

saho Adriana mat Essa Pekka Salan Flur

Baron axelo Nicholas fan Christopher

perves Jason oconnell San Francisco

Symphony San Francisco Symphony chorus

wow thank you so much for this

recognition oops just lost an earring um

we performed this piece and recorded

this disc just days after Kaa passed

away from cancer and our connection to

the piece was heightened by the presence

in the room of members of her family and

people who were like her family eseka

salonon Peter sers her husband Jean

Baptist barer

her daughter Alisa ner who is our

assistant

conductor this Opera explores issues

most of us are processing uh War cycles

of violence um it was such a

transformative process to be part of

this project alongside our dear

colleagues uh colleagues Axel F Chris

pvis the San Francisco Symphony and

chorus um and most of all we are so

grateful to Caya for putting out

something so courageous and beautiful

into the

world I'd like to thank the recording

Engineers John Johansson Denise Woodward

Nick Abu uh and Mark Wilshire and my my

wife my

family thank you Jason for making us

sound so beautiful thank you to the San

Francisco Symphony to eseka and to ka's

family um this is obviously in her

memory and thank you to my Noah who I

love so

much for best Coral performance the

nominees are

Matthew

guard Eric

Holton Janette

sorell Donald

n Elaine Kelly Melissa adury Steven Sans

and Benedict

shien and the Grammy goes

to ochre Donald n conductor

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best chamber music small

Ensemble performance the nominees are

Jack

quartet yoyo ma Leonas bacos and Emanuel

axe Beth Willer Christopher Cerrone and

Laura Li

Ensemble Muro

quartet Caroline Shaw and so

percussion and the Grammy goes

to rectangles in circumstance Caroline

Shaw and so percussion

okay uh it feels so weird to be here

without the whole team when this was

such a communal album and so Caroline

and Danny I love you so much ring down

is my new favorite band um John this

album absolutely would not be the same

without you and um Jason Josh and Adam

you guys are my brothers and I feel just

lucky to do this with you and uh I'm

sure everybody in this room knows a lot

of people who have made a lot of

sacrifices so you can do what you do for

a percussion quartet that means parents

who put up with a lot of hours of drum

set practice and families who deal with

a lot of time where you're out on the

road so Yi uh Romy Addie I love you um

Stephanie Beth El Mabel uh Christina

Gemma all of our families we love you so

much and the people who helped to make

this album none such David and Karina

the so team Tim Kelly Nelson Rob

Robinson Alliance um and all the other

people who worked on the album Matt P

Josh pady the team of gilfred sound

everybody this is amazing uh thank

you for best classical instrumental solo

the nominees are Andy

AKO vinger

Olson Seth Parker

Woods Mack

gurage Curtis Stewart and James

Blatchley and the Grammy goes

to Bach Goldberg Variations Viner

olafson

congratulations I will accept this

Grammy on their

behalf for best classical solo vocal

album the nominees are Fatina nenco

maika buraki and Julian

Schwarz Karen slack and Michelle K

Nicholas Pon and piver

strings will liverman and Jonathan

King Joyce tonado and Maxim Emil

anev and the Grammy goes

to Beyond The Years unpublished songs of

Florence price Karen slack soloist

Michelle Khan pianist

oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my oh

my God oh my God okay I my daddy passed

away in December right before Christmas

and I really wanted him to be here he's

here though okay you know

what okay when I started my career in

2024 as an opera soprano I never

imagined standing here on the stage

today cuz back then this award only went

to very famous superstar singers on

major classical labels but today I get

the opportunity to be here among the

great that have come before me to

represent the

inimitable American composer Florence

price

a a trailblazing black woman who wrote

extraordinary music in a time when it

was belied that only European and male

composers belongs in the concert hall

thank you to the academy the voting

members and everyone who supported this

project and my collaborator the

incredible Michelle

C thank to my friends and Philly come on

girl I just I just want to say I love

Florence price she has been my idol

forever so to be part of this with you

is everything I just want to give um

thanks to God to my family my parents

Leonard and Kay my husband Dorian who is

here and just to Alan Bice our producer

and one composer this was the team

Tamara and Steve who helped make this

project happen thank you all thank

hello you can do better than

that you're probably wondering why I'm

on this side of the stage and that's

because I have just a few more gramys to

give out we're not done just yet but I

expect even more energy because there's

not that many of you so you got to go

even crazier for these all right now

here we are the final categories of our

Premiere ceremony good luck

everyone for best spoken word poetry

album the nominees are Queen

Sheba Omari Hardwick

Malik

YF tank and the

bangas Mad

Skills Grammy goes to tank and the bang

oh my God oh my God and the fact that

they play Stevie Wonder You Know Stevie

Wonder thank you so much Academy thank

you so much we are tanking the bangers

and we want to thank our best friend

Tavia who is our manager as well and we

want to thank Verve records and tamarrow

joy and Robert Glasper and Cilan and

James poiser and Iman Omari and Austin

Brown and Brian London and oh my God I'm

so nervous I don't even much know who to

thank no more thank God thank you Jesus

thank you God and all the poets and all

the spoken word artists that's in this

category and is a win for poetry and

Poets everywhere from the slam mics to

the open mics to the Grammy stage thank

you

jari for letting me do this I love y'all

thank

you for best musical theater album the

nominees are shashana bean Brandon

Victor Dixon Kesha Lewis Malia Joy Moon

Adam Blackstone Alicia Keys and Tom

kit Jonathan gra Lindsay Mendes Daniel

Radcliffe David cadic Joel FR Maria

fredman and David

lie John Clancy Carmel Dean Kurt Deutsch

Derek Lee Kevin McCullum and ingred

Michaelson Joshua Boon Brent comr Brody

Grant Sky laota Lynch Zack chance

Jonathan Clay Matt hinley Justin LaVine

and Lawrence Manchester

Andrea groy Dean sherow and Shaina

tab Wayne Brady Deborah Cox Michelle

Lewis Avery Wilson Joseph zuwar Alan

Renee Lewis and Lawrence

Manchester and the Grammy goes

to Hell's Kitchen

of course

God is good

y'all I first want to say thank you to

God as I did thank you to my mom and dad

thank you to my wife kaisha thank you

recording Academy I have a list from

Miss Alicia Keys who is the executive

producer composer Lyricist and

everything for Hell's Kitchen so happy

to speak on her behalf Tom King

inner scope Rock Nation and Meli and

aara and the akw family to all the

artists and musicians on the album sh

Bean Brandon Dixon Kesha Malia Chris the

music team Lily John Stephanie the

Broadway producing team Aaron Mandy and

everybody and the Schubert theater

family last but not least for me I just

want to say thank you to all the open

minds and the Dei programs that allow me

a little kid from church to live out my

dreams on

Broadway I'm so so thankful for my

children going to be able to see this

moment thank y'all come see hell kitchen

on Broadway y'all and yes the the

darkness is loud but the light is

brighter y'all there's so much more

light celebrate the light shine your

light let's

go for best arrangement instrumental or

AC capella the nominees are Michael

league Jacob Coler Tory Kelly and John

Legend Baya Fleck

Aaron Bentlage Alexander Lloyd Blake

Scott Hoying AJ cely and Amanda

Taylor Aaron Bentlage Sarah gazarik John

a Kendrick and Amanda

Taylor and the Grammy goes to Bridge

Over Troubled Water

w

oh wow thank you so very much how's

everybody

feeling oh

lovely um gosh what a moment Tori this

is crazy this is crazy this is really

cool um okay first person I'd like to

thank two people at Simon and gar Uncle

legends that are thank you for this

absolute Treasure of an immortal song

and I hope one day you will forgive me

for the illegal and irresponsible cord

choices that I distributed amongst this

Arrangement thank you so much um to yba

also I saw a video of yba singing this

song on YouTube back in 2016 and I

harmonized it because I loved it so much

and she was gracious enough to allow me

to sample it and it was the foundation

of this Arrangement and um and then also

to the mighty Tori Kelly everybody I

come on Tory Kelly insane and John

Legend two of the most extraordinary

vocalist on the face of the Earth um T

you want to say anything I I want to

thank you for asking me to be on this

song Give it up for Jacob um I yeah

thank you for pushing me to be the best

version of myself that I can be for

challenging me and um I'm so honored

thank you God for this beautiful gift of

music I'm this is so special oh amazing

thank you everybody thanks so

much for best arrangement instruments

and vocals the n

are Aaron Bentlage Sarah gazar John a

Kendrick and Amanda

Taylor Mt Jones John Legend and sufan

Stevens Chris griti Zack tenorio and

Willow Charlie Rosen and Jake

Silverman Cody

fry and the Grammy goes to

Alma

okay wow holy s word this means so much

to us we want to thank members of the

Academy I had to write this down cuz I

knew I was going to just my brain was

going to leave my body um this song is

really special to us and it means a lot

that it resonated with you all we are a

fractured Ensemble today because our

love Amanda Taylor is not here tonight

Amanda we love you um and lastly we want

to well not lastly there's more um we

also want to share this we share this

with our mothers our grandmothers our

children my daughters Adora and NOLA who

sang on this and Sarah's niece Mavis who

also sang on this one um that they

elevated the song we also just want to

take a second to acknowledge all of the

people who have worked so hard to fight

for Restoration in Los Angeles after so

many of us have suffered um in the Eden

fires and the Palisades fires I want to

take a second to acknowledge a very

important composer and arranger the

great John Clayton who lost his house in

the fires in Altadena and he also lost

the Grammy Award that he won in this

category in 2007 so we love all of you

we share this with all of you keep

fighting keep restoring Los Angeles

thank you to the recording Academy for

acknowledging this song I love you I

love you Amanda Taylor we love you we

love you thank you so

much for best classical compendium album

the nominees

are Andy AKO ammani wins Shawn Dixon and

Mark

Dober Curtis Stewart James Blatchley and

Blandon

Alpa Joanne feta and Bar

Ginger Sita car Omar nji hila plitman

Robert be Dan Santi Blas Michael Shapiro

Jeff atmajian Emilio D Mueller hwin and

kit

wakeley Gustavo dudamel and Demitri

Lee and the Grammy goes

to Ortiz

come on down

okay this is amazing thank you very much

I would like to thank the recording

Academy for this award this is my first

major orchestral album and I feel so

grateful with all the people that have

been involved in making this dream come

true all my gratitude to the LA

philarmonic Gustavo La Master coral and

Maria duas all of you are the most

important musical inspiration also I

would i' like to thank Gustavo Dame and

Megan umber for their guidance and

support thanks Dimitri for your

incredible and amazing recording and and

and producer of this incredible album

thank you very

much for best contemporary classical

composition the nominees are Andrea

casaros Valerie

Coleman David L

Gabriella

Ortiz Kaa saho and Amin

Maloof and the Grammy goes to Ortiz

again

okay thank you thank you very much thank

you to platoon for making this album

possible to Busan Hawks for helping me

to Manch my music so well finally I

would like to thank Christina Rivera

Gara and my brother artist Ruben orti

Torres for sharing their knowledge

around the theme of feminism with me

this gram is also dedicated to my

daughter Elena and aleexandra my husband

because always they are always there and

when I need them lastly this award is

dedicated to all the brave women in

Mexico and around the world who fight

against Injustice every day thank you

very

much that is it for us here but the

night is far from Over the music goes on

The Vibes keep vibing and the energy is

heading straight to crypto.com Arena

your grandma's and High School prom

dates can't wait to see your pretty

faces on the TV let's do this for

Grandma speaking of Grandma's Mom hurry

up so they let you in get over there

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you the Grammy Premiere ceremony is

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