La 59esima edizione dei Grammy Awards 2017 si è tenuta domenica scorsa ed è stata presentata da James Corden. A fare la parte del leone sono stati Adele e David Bowie.
Durante la serata il cantante inglese, scomparso l’anno scorso, ha vinto quattro premi postumi (Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Performance, Best Engineered Album Non-Classical, Best Recording Package) e la cantante Adele ne ha vinti ben sette, eseguendo dal vivo “Hello” e un ricordo di George Michael dove, con la voce rotta dall’emozione, si è dovuta fermare dicendo “mi spiace, non ce la faccio.”
Nella stessa serata Adele, ricevendo il premio come Album of the Year, Adele si è anche lamentata di come il premio non lo abbia vinto Beyoncè con il suo “Lemonade“, chiedendosi cosa altro debba fare la cantante americana per vincere questo premio. Bruno Mars ha invece eseguito la sua canzone “That’s What I Like” ed ha tributato la performance a Prince, mentre Katy Perry ha cantato “Chained To The Rhythm” durante una performance anti-Trump. Contro il presidente americano si è anche scagliato Busta Rhymes con la sua esibizione insieme agli A Tribe Called Quest.
Altre esibizioni della serata hanno visto una spaziale Beyoncé, The Weeknd e Daft Punk cantare la loro “I Feel It Coming“, Ed Sheeran ha canto il suo ultimo singolo “Shape Of You” e Lady Gaga e i Metallica hanno cantato insieme “Moth in Flames“.
Questa è la lista di tutti i vincitori di quest’anno:
Album of the Year: Adele – ’25’
Record of the Year: Adele – ‘Hello’
Best Song: Adele – ‘Hello’
Best New Artist: Chance The Rapper
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Twenty One Pilots – ‘Stressed Out’
Best Rock Song: David Bowie – ‘Blackstar’
Best Urban Contemporary Album: Beyonce – ‘Lemonade’
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Greg Kurstin
Best Pop Vocal Album: Adele – ’25’
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Willie Nelson – Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Best Pop Solo Performance: Adele – ‘Hello’
Best Alternative Music Album: David Bowie – Blackstar
Best Rock Album: Cage the Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty
Best Metal Performance: Megadeth – ‘Dystopia’
Best Rock Performance: David Bowie – ‘Blackstar’
Best Rap Song: Aubrey Graham & Paul Jefferies, songwriters (Drake) – ‘Hotline Bling’
Best Rap/Sung Performance: Drake – ‘Hotline Bling’
Best Rap Performance: Chance the Rapper ‘No Problem’ [ft. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz]
Best R&B Album: Lalah Hathaway – Lalah Hathaway Live
Best R&B Song: Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell) – ‘Lake By the Ocean’
Best Traditional R&B Performance: Lalah Hathaway – ‘Angel’
Best R&B Performance: Solange – ‘Cranes in the Sky’
Best Comedy Album: Patton Oswalt – Talking for Clapping
Best Reggae Album: Ziggy Marley – Ziggy Marley
Best Regional Roots Music Album: Kalani Pe’a – E Walea
Best Folk Album: Sarah Jarosz – Undercurrent
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Fantastic Negrito – The Last Days of Oakland
Best Traditional Blues Album: Bobby Rush – Porcupine Meat
Best Bluegrass Album: O’Connor Band With Mark O’Connor – Coming Home
Best Americana Album: William Bell – This Is Where I Live
Best American Roots Song: Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time Jumpers) – ‘Kid Sister’
Best American Roots Performance: Sarah Jarosz – ‘House of Mercy’
Best Tropical Latin Album: Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo – Donde Están?
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): Vicente Fernández – Un Azteca En El Azteca, Vol. 1 (En Vivo)
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: iLe – iLevitable
Best Latin Pop Album: Jesse & Joy – Un Besito Mas
Best Country Album: Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Best Country Song: Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw) – ‘Humble and Kind’
Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Pentatonix – ‘Jolene’ [ft. Dolly Parton]
Best Roots Gospel Album: Joey+Rory – Hymns
Best Latin Jazz Album: Chucho Valdés – Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Ted Nash Big Band – Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: John Scofield – Country for Old Men
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Gregory Porter – Take Me to the Alley
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: John Scofield, soloist – ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’
Contemporary Instrumental: Snarky Puppy – Culcha Vulcha
Best Dance/Electronic Album: Flume – Skin
Best Dance Recording: The Chainsmokers ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ [ft. Daya]
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist – Schmann & Berg (tie) Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker) – Shakespeare Songs (tie)
Best Classical Compendium: Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer – Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle
Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony) – Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Steve Reich
Best Choral Performance: Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir) – Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1
Best Opera Recording: James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus) – Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles
Best Orchestra Performance: Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) – Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Mark Donahue, Fred Vogler & David L Williams, engineers (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, LA Opera Chorus & Orchestra) – Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles
Best Music Film: The Beatles – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week the Touring Years
Best Music Video: Beyoncé – ‘Formation’
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): Carol Burnett – In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
Best Children’s Album: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Infinity Plus One
Best World Music Album: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble – Sing Me Home
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Hillary Scott & the Scott Family – Love Remains
Best Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin – Losing My Religion
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: Hillary Scott & the Scott Family; Bernie Herms, Hillary Scott & Emily Weisband, songwriters – ‘Thy Will’
Best Gospel Performance/Song: Tamela Mann; Kirk Franklin, songwriter – ‘God Provides’ [WINNER]
Best New Age Album: White Sun – White Sun II
Best Surround Sound Album: Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, surround mix engineers; Dmitriy Lipay, surround mastering engineer; Dmitriy Lipay, surround producer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony) – Dutilleux: Sur La Même Accord; Les Citations; Mystère de L’instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement
Best Remixed Recording: André Allen Anjos, remixer (Bob Moses) – ‘Tearing Me Up (RAC Remix)’
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: David Bowie, Tom Elmhirst, Kevin Killen & Tony Visconti, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (David Bowie) – Blackstar
Best Historical Album:Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Mark Wilder, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan) – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Collector’s Edition)
Best Album Notes: Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle) – Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Gérard Lo Monaco, art director (Edith Piaf) – Edith Piaf 1915-2015
Best Recording Package: Jonathan Barnbrook, art director (David Bowie) – Blackstar
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier) – ‘Flintstones’
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier) – ‘You and I’
Best Instrumental Composition: Ted Nash, composer (Ted Nash Big Band) – ‘Spoken at Midnight’
Best Song Written for Visual Media: Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar), Track from: Trolls – ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling!’
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: John Williams, composer – Star Wars: the Force Awakens
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Miles Davis & Various Artists; Steve Berkowitz, Don Cheadle & Robert Glasper, compilation producers – Miles Ahead
Best Musical Theater Album: Danielle Brooks, Cynthia Erivo & Jennifer Hudson, principal soloists; Stephen Bray, Van Dean, Frank Filipetti, Roy Furman, Joan Raffe, Scott Sanders & Jhett Tolentino, producers (Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell & Allee Willis, composers/lyricists) (New Broadway Cast) – The Color Purple
