The month of January 2020 is
coming to an end, but the season for giving awards in entertainment media is
only just getting warmed up. While films and television programming have
already gotten their time in the spotlight (and will return to that spotlight later
on), this past Sunday was music and the recording industry’s turn to have their
best and brightest be recognized and honored. And as expected, it was the time
of the biggest names in music especially during 2019 that got the awards. The
award ceremony also turned impromptu into a tribute to a fallen sports legend.
As Entertainment Weekly puts it, the 62nd Annual Grammy
Awards was the time for breakout American singing idol Billie Eilish to prove
definitively that she is award material. Eilish got six nominations, equal to
rapper Montero Lamar “Lil Nas X” Hill, and one less than rapper-singer-songwriter
Lizzo. Of that, she would win five Grammys including Record of the Year and
Song of the Year (“Bad Guy”), Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album (“When
We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”), and Best New Artist, quite naturally.
To compare, Lizzo’s eight Grammy
nominations only converted into three award wins; in several of them she got
beaten out by Eilish. Not bad for the youngest singer to ever write, record and
perform a theme song for the long-running “James Bond” film franchise, this one
for “No Time to Die,” the final Bond movie for Daniel Craig premiering this April.
Her rising star is evident in how she crowded out Lil Nas X in Grammys, the
same way she toppled his Billboard chart-topping reign. Already Eilish is set
to embark on her first World Tour, one of her stops being in Manila this coming
September at the Mall of Asia Arena from MMI Live.
But before the giving out of
awards could kick off at the Grammys, there was a quick integration of tributes
for retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday, January 26 after his private
helicopter crashed in California. Appropriate for giving tribute, the Grammy
Awards this year was held at Staples Center, home court of the LA Lakers for
which Bryant played for his entire NBA career.
The top tribute was a performance
by Boyz II Men and Grammys host Alicia Keys, of “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to
Yesterday.” Lil Nas, DJ Khaled and Lizzo also added tributes to their own
scheduled performances. K-Pop boy band BTS were also among the featured
performers.
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