The 59th Annual Grammy Awards, founded by the Record Industry Association of America in 1958, was held in California on last Sunday, February 12.
In the photo: the singer Adele.
The main triumphant of the "Grammy" became the singer Adele. She was the first performer in history who has received three major awards ceremony for the second year in a row. In total, this year the singer won five "Grammy" statuettes in the following categories: "Best Album", "Best Song» (Hello), «Best Recording of the Year", "Best Pop Vocal Album" and "Best Pop Solo Performance".
In the photo: Adele after Grammy awards 2017.
The singer did not agree with the jury about her victory in the category "Best Album" - Adele gave her award to the pop diva Beyonce, the singer called Beyonce "my idol" and said about her album Lemonade. According to BBC, the fact of refusal of the award was noted only once. Sinead O'Connor refused of her statuette in 1990.
In the photo: Beyonce Knowles during her performance at the "Grammys 2017" ceremony.
David Bowie was awarded postmortem by the American Recording Academy with five "Grammys" in 2016.
Recently, the American stars adress the political topics during the public events. For example, at the Grammys 2017, the singer Katy Perry's speech had political overtones. Performimg with one of her hits, she was wearing the banner reading «We the People» (the US Constitution begins with this words). Recall that during the election campaign in the United States Perry actively campaigned for Hillary Clinton.
A lot of people expected that the singer Rihanna will win in one of the nominations, but this year she was left without the coveted statuette.
In 2017, the opera singer from Russia Nikolai Didenko was awarded with "Grammy".
Also, the American Recording Academy marked the composer John Williams (in the photo). He received "Grammy" for the soundtrack to one of the highest grossing franchises of our time - the film "Star Wars: The Awakening forces."
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