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2023 Grammy Awards were a hit with a sea of superstars gracing the event. While Beyoncé broke the record for having 32 Grammys over the span of her career, Taylor Swift bagged a Grammy for her music video for ‘All Too Well: The Short Film’! The ceremony celebrated artists across various genres of music. Let’s have a look at the winners of Grammy Awards 2023!

Taylor Swift bags a Grammy for her music video for ‘All Too Well: The Short Film’! The singer is known for writing, directing and starring in the said film with Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien. The honour was revealed during the Grammy Premiere Ceremony.  “I can’t put into words what this means to me,” Swift tweeted. “For the @RecordingAcad and my peers to acknowledge me as a director, and in doing so, acknowledge my work to try and reclaim my music… I’m blown away. Thank you to all the fans who willed this to happen.” Fans immediately took to Twitter to reply to her tweet. One supporter replied with a photo of “All Too Well: The Short Film” cupcakes and the message “SO PROUD OF YOU!!! love you forever”. Another fan surrounded by Red merch saying, “I MANIFESTED ALL AFTERNOON!!!! IM SO HAPPY ALL TOO WELL THE SHORT FILM GOT THE RECOGNITION IT DESERVES. You’re an amazing director and screenwriter and I cannot wait to see all the magic you make next.”

Bad Bunny paid tribute to Puerto-Rico with his performance at the 2023 Grammy Awards. The singer took to the stage and ran the gamut of Puerto-Rican and Caribbean music. Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ won Best Música Urbana Album. The rapper wore a white T-shirt, light denim jeans, white sneakers and a baseball cap while delivering his high-energy performance of ‘El Apagón’. He performed along with eight plena (a genre from Puerto Rico) dancers, seven pleneros and eight cabezudos (giant characters). The cabezudos were manufactured and managed by Puerto Rican people. This was done to pay homage to Puerto Rican legends, Tego Calderón, Roberto Clemente and Julia de Burgos among many others. 

Beyoncé created history by becoming the top Grammy Awards winner of all time at the 65th annual Grammy Awards. She won four awards at the event this year. Now she has a total of 32 Grammy Awards, breaking Sir Georg Solti’s record of 31 Grammy awards. She won Best Dance/Electronic Recording for ‘Break My Soul’, Best Traditional R&B Performance for ‘Plastic Off The Sofa’, Best R&B Song for ‘Cuff It’ and Best Dance/Electronic Album for ‘Renaissance.’ Apart from this, she was  nominated in three more categories including album, record and song of the year.   Nonetheless, she has broken many records over the years. In 2010, she became the first female artist to win a total of six Grammys in a single night. A decade later, she surpassed Alison Krauss and became the woman with the most career Grammy wins. Her first two Grammy awards were with her band, Destiny’s Child for ‘Say My Name’. 

The lives of musicians have always been of great interest to us! However, we hardly know anything about them. Today let’s discuss trivia about five musicians and their influence on the world!  Mozart sold more CDs than Beyoncé in 2016. However, that’s not all. Mozart also beat Adele and Drake even though they had Grammy-winning hits that year. The reason for this was that the Universal Music Group released a box set to honour Mozart  on his 225th death anniversary.  When we use YouTube, we must give a little credit to Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction controversy at the Super Bowl XXXVIII show in 2004. Jawed Karim, who founded YouTube with two others, said that he was inspired by two incidents. One, Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction and the other, the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in India.  The official drummer for The Offspring left the band to become an obstetrician-gynaecologist and gynaecologic oncologist. James Lilja was the original drummer for the pop-punk band during the mid-1980s. He played on their debut single ‘I’ll be Waiting’ and their debut album ‘The Offspring’.