Kanye wins Grammy for best contemporary Christian album
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Los Angeles (AFP)
The mercurial Kanye West won his 22nd Grammy on Sunday, but not for his usual fare: the artist who skyrocketed to fame in the rap world now has a Christian music prize to his name.
West did not appear at the virtual ceremony to accept the award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for his 2019 release Jesus Is King, which is imbued with his message of evangelical salvation.
It was the first Grammy win for the Chicago-raised West since 2013, when he nabbed three Grammys in the rap categories.
In spite of some initial technical glitches (and a fair number of voting controversies), this year’s Grammy Awards were ultimately nothing like this year’s Globes – and thank God for that. In place of existential Zoom misery were thirst-inducing Harry Styles looks, a “WAP” performance that will have Republican senators clutching their pearls, and yet more coups for our Lord and Saviour Beyoncé Knowles Carter. Below, all of the highlights from music’s biggest night.
The Grammys, an awards ceremony for making nice sounds, had sound issues.
Not all of the Grammy awards are given out on camera – a blessing, considering 84 statuettes are handed out over the course of the night. Instead, the Recording Academy hosts a smaller digital pre-ceremony ahead of music’s biggest night. Of course, this being 2021, there were multiple sound glitches during this year’s virtual prize-giving. In the Grammys’ answer to Daniel Kaluuya’s muted Globes speech, The Strokes actually fa
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