The 2023 Grammys has wrapped up in spectacular style!
After a tough few years following COVID-19 and a myriad of cancelled awards shows, the music industry’s night of nights came back with a bang.
This year, the ceremony returned to Los Angeles after briefly relocating to Las Vegas due to the pandemic. Hosted by Trevor Noah, the show featured some dazzling performances from the likes of Harry Styles and Sam Smith.
Viewers also witnessed history as Beyonce smashed the record for most Grammys won by a single article, while Lizzo, Adele and Harry Styles warmed hearts with their overjoyed acceptance speeches.
Read on for 9Honey Celebrity’s live blog of all the big moments and surprises as they happened. All times in AEDT.
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3.41pm: Harry Styles wins Album of the Year
In an adorable moment for Album of the Year Grammy winner Harry Styles, the As It Was singer’s name is read out by a superfan, a Canadian great-grandmother named Reina.
Reina’s voice shakes in the most adorable fashion as she helps Trevor Noah announce Styles as the winner.
Styles, who took out the gong for his album Harry’s House, arrives on the stage in a flurry as he hugs Reina and begins his speech.
“Well shit! Man. I’ve been so, so inspired by every artist in this category with me,” Styles tells the crowd after accepting his Grammy win.”
It’s obviously so important for us to remember that there is no such thing as best in music,” he adds.
“This is really kind. I’m so so grateful.”
3.15pm: Lizzo takes out Record of the Year
Lizzo takes out Record of the Year for her iconic and catchy song About Damn Time, and her joy is contagious as she delivers her acceptance speech.
The hilarious singer takes the opportunity to shout out her seatmate, fellow Grammy winner Adele, as she accepts her award.
“Let me tell you something, me and Adele are having a good time just enjoying ourselves, just rooting for our friends, so this is an amazing night,” Lizzo says.
“This is so unexpected.”
Lizzo also dedicates her win to the late singer Prince, who died in 2016.
“When we lost Prince, I decided to dedicate my life to making positive music,” she adds.
And much like most of the other winners, it seems Lizzo is starstruck by Beyonce’s presence in the crowd.
“Where you at Beyonce? My arms are wet!” she jokes.
“You changed my life.”
3.08pm: A surprise Song of the Year winner
Jill Biden announces the Song of the Year Grammy winner, blues singer Bonnie Raitt.
Raitt, 73, was up against the likes of Harry Styles, Beyonce, Lizzo and Taylor Swift, but in a surprise underdog win, the singer takes out the gong for her hit Just Like That.
Even Raitt looks shocked as her name is called out by the First Lady.
“I’m so surprised. I don’t know what to say. This is just an unreal moment,” Raitt says on stage.
“I just… I don’t write a lot of songs but I’m so proud that you appreciate this one.”
3.30pm: FLOTUS Jill Biden takes the stage
In a thrilling political twist, the US First Lady Jill Biden arrives on stage to announce the inaugural winner of the Social Change/Song of the Year Grammy.
The wife of US President Joe Biden wears a glittering silver gown as she honours Shervin Hajipour, an Iranian singer who wrote the protest song Baraye.
“This song became the anthem of the Mahsa Amini protests,” Biden says to the crowd.
“A powerful and poetic call for freedom and women’s rights. This video appeared on Shervin’s Instagram page and was seen more than 40 million times in less than two days.”
2.46pm: Adele reveals she wrote Easy on Me in the shower
Adele wins Best Pop Solo Performance for Easy on Me – a song she says she wrote in the shower.
“Thank you. I really, um, I really was just looking forward to coming tonight,” she tells the crowd.
“I just want to dedicate this to my son, Angelo.”
She then says boyfriend Rich Paul told her not to cry if she won. Well, too late.
“Oh God, Richie, he said, ‘Don’t cry, if you win anything tonight, don’t cry.’ Here I am crying,” she says.
It’s The Rock who presents Adele with her trophy.
The pair just met earlier in the evening when introduced by host Trevor Noah. Talk about a full-circle moment.
2.30pm: Stars gather to mark 50 years of hip-hop
The who’s who of hip-hop take to the stage to celebrate 50 years of the genre in an outstanding musical performance curated by producer Quest Love.
Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Salt-N-Pepa are among the many acts to mark the milestone occasion, wowing the crowd with their raps and beats.
Notable appearances by Ice-T, Queen Latifah and Busta Rhymes, happily repping hip-hop from 1973 to 2023.
“Some say we have created a monster to have even taken it this far,” Queen Latifah pauses to tell the crowd midway through her performance.
“If I’m not Queen, from one thing I know, from all these years we spent together, she knows no bounds. Hip hop will live everywhere forever!”
2.20pm: Taylor Swift urges fans to petition to lower the price of eggs
There’s nothing Taylor Swift’s fans won’t do.
Known as ‘Swifies’, the singer’s fan base recently highlighted and condemned the recent Ticketmaster debacle, so technically they can make anything happen.
“There is really nothing they can’t accomplish,” Swift tells host Trevor Noah, who asks the singer to get her fans to petition to lower the pierce of eggs in the US.
“They will get on it. Just let them know what you need.”
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2.19pm: Dr Dre wins his own inaugural award
LL Cool J introduces the new Dr Dre Global Impact Award, which goes to music icon Dr Dre Himself.
The previously-named Recording Academy Global Impact Award recognises musicians for their personal and professional achievements in the music industry.
“Dr Dre is one of the greatest game-changers in music history,” the rapper tells the crowd as he announces the winner.
In his acceptance speech, Dre says, “I’m extremely moved by this award and I’m going to say thank you to the recording academy and the Black music collective for this honour.”
2.10pm: Beyoncé breaks record for most Grammy wins of all time
All hail Queen Bey, who has just become the first artist to win the most Grammy awards of all time.
The singer has now won a whopping 32 Grammys throughout her career. With her Best Dance/Electronic Music Album win for Renaissance, Beyoncé beat Georg Solti’s record for most overall wins in Grammys history.
“Thank you so much. I’m trying not to be too emotional. I’m trying to just receive this night,” an emotional Bey says on stage after accepting her award.
“I want to thank God for protecting me. Thank you God. I would like to thank my uncle Johnny, who is not here but he’s here in spirit. I would like to thank my parents, my father, my mother for loving me and pushing me.
“I would like to thank my beautiful husband. My beautiful three children who are at home watching. I would like to thank the queer community for your love, and for inventing this genre. God bless you. Thank you so much to the Grammys.”
2.04pm: Trevor Noah’s jab at Prince Harry
Host Trevor Noah proves why he was the best man for the job with a very topical royal reference.
He introduces comedian James Cordon to the stage to announce the Best Dance/Electronic Pop album with a joke about the Duke of Sussex’s new memoir, Spare.
“James Corden is a 12-time Emmy winner and the host of The Late Late Show,” Noah tells the crowd.
“He’s also living proof that a man can move from London to LA and not tell everyone about his frostbit penis.”
It’s a hilarious jibe at the former senior royal, who wrote about his frostbitten “todger” in his bombshell memoir.
1.50pm: Madonna prompts crowd to clap for her while presenting: ‘Come on, people, make some noise’
Hot on the heels of her 40th-anniversary world tour, Madonna needs no introduction to the Grammys stage. In her many decades in music, she has won seven Grammy awards.
But when her words are met with no applause at the ceremony, she pipes up: “Come on, people, let’s make some noise.”
Before introducing Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ performance of Unholy, Madonna praises those who aren’t afraid to go against the grain.
“Here’s what I’ve learned after four decades in music,” she tells the audience.
“If they call you ‘shocking, scandalous, troublesome, problematic, provocative or dangerous, you’re definitely on to something.”
1.43pm: Songbird plays for Christine McVie
Fleetwood Mac legend Mick Fleetwood joins country stars Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow for a moving rendition of the band’s hit Songbird.
Songbird was originally performed by band member Christine McVie, who died in November 2022.
You could hear a pin drop in the crowd as the Fleetwood Mac song slowly echoes around the Grammy arena.
1.34pm: Kasey Musgraves honours those we have lost
The mood in the room shifts as country music star Kasey Musgraves performs an in memoriam tribute to the musicians and stars we have lost in the past year.
Musgraves plays a guitar with late singer Loretta Lynn’s name on it as pictures of the dearly departed appear on the screen behind her.
Some of the late stars the Grammys pay tribute to include Jeff Beck, Naomi Judd and Australia’s Olivia Newton John.
Then, Musgraves passes the baton over to rapper Quavo who performs for the rest of the moving tribute.
1.28pm: Kendrick Lamar humbled over Best Rap Album win
With this year marking 50 years of Hip-Hop, all eyes were on Cardi B when she presented Best Rap Album.
It’s a competitive category with DJ Khaled, Future, Jack Harlow and Pusha T all up for nomination, but it’s Kendrick Lamar who is announced the winner.
“I want to thank my fans for trusting me with these words, you know,” Lamar says in his inspirational speech.
“You know, as artists, we are all entertainers, and we say things to provoke thoughts and feelings and emotions.
“So making this record, this is one of my toughest records to make and it allowed me to do that and allowed me to share other people’s experiences.”
1.20pm: Harry Styles wows the crowd
It’s Harry’s House tonight indeed.
Harry Styles’ producer Kid Harpoon introduced the British popstar as “Gary” for a very sweet reason.
“I call him Gary because he’s etched his name so deeply into our culture that sometimes it’s easy to forget the human,” Harpoon said.
“The boy from a village in Cheshire, England working in a bakery who chased his dream and now years later is about to perform Grammy award-winning music for you tonight.”
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As church bells play, Styles takes to the stage to perform his hit single As It Was, dressed in his signature androgynous fashion in a stunning silver-fringed get-up.
Styles also dances a fun choreography reminiscent of Mick Jagger as he sings the catchy tune, which has been nominated for the Song of the Year Grammy.
1.18pm: Beyonce arrives at the ceremony… one hour late
Queen Bey is in the building!
The crowd favourite was late to the ceremony after being stuck in traffic, and because of this, missed out on accepting her first award for the evening: Best R&B Song for Cuff It.
“I was shocked to find out that traffic could stop you,” host Trevor Noah tells Bey as she finds her seat with husband Jay-Z inside the Crypto.com Arena in LA.
“I thought you travelled through space and time but I’m glad you could be with us now.”
1.10pm: Jennifer Lopez claps loudest for fellow Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny is nominated for three awards this evening, and he just walked away with his first: Best Música Urbana Album for Un Verano Sin Ti.
And there’s no one clapping louder in the crowd than fellow Puerto Rican singer, Jennifer Lopez.
“Woo. Gracias. This is really easy. Humble. It is easy because I just made this album with love and passion, and when you do things with love and passion, everything is easier. The life is easier,” he tells the crowd.
1.00pm: Lizzo takes to the stage
It’s About Damn Time we saw Lizzo!
The hitmaker performs a medley of two of her most iconic songs as the delighted crowd dances along.
The 34-year-old, who is nominated for a total of five Grammys this year, is joined by a group of talented backup singers and dancers as she treats the crowd to her hits It’s About Damn Time and Special.
Lizzo then receives a standing ovation after she finishes her thrilling performance.
12.55pm: Kim Petras becomes first transgender woman to win Grammy Award
Sam Smith gladly gives fellow musician Kim Petras the honours of delivering an acceptance speech after their win for Best Pop Duo or Group Performance – she just became the first transgender woman to win a Grammy award.
The duo win for their collaboration on the hit song Unholy, beating artists such as ABBA, Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and BTS, and Post Malone and Doja Cat.
“I just wanted to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so I could be here tonight,” Petras says in her speech, while Smith stands in the background.
“Sophie, especially, my friend who passed away two years ago, who told me this would happen and always believed in me. Thank you so much for your inspiration, Sophie. I adore you and your inspiration will forever be in my music.”
12.43pm: Billy Crystal returns 35 years after his Grammys hosting gig
Comedian Billy Crystal takes to the stage, 35 years after he hosted the awards night and won an Emmy for it in 1987.
This year, Crystal has already won a Grammy for Best Musical Album.
The When Harry Met Sally actor then introduces Lifetime Achievement honoree Stevie Wonder to perform for the crowd, as the room celebrates Motown legends Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson.
Wonder, 72, performs The Way You Do The Things You Do by The Temptations, then a compilation of other Motown tracks.
12.40pm: Shania Twain wows crowd as she presents Best Country Album
With her striking red hair, Shania Twain looks like she just stepped out of That Don’t Impress Me Much music video from the ’90s while presenting Best Country Album.
The singer awards the category to legendary singer Willie Nelson for A Beautiful Time, beating out the likes of Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde and Maren Morris.
“Wow. Willie could not be with us tonight, so I accept this award on their and his behalf. Love you, Willie,” Twain says.
12.33pm: Beyonce wins Best R&B song, but isn’t there to accept it
EGOT winner Viola Davis reads out the winner for the Best R&B song, with Beyoncé’s smash hit Cuff It taking out the gong.
Surprisingly, the singer wasn’t on-stage to accept her first major award of the night, as host Noah jokingly explains Beyoncé is in “traffic” instead and is running late.
Niles Rodgers accepts the award on her behalf.
The win also means Beyoncé is now tied for the musician with the most Grammy awards of all time, as the crowd erupts into applause at the historic announcement.
Here’s hoping she gets enough green lights in time to perform…
12.19pm: Harry Styles wins Best Pop Vocal Album
Jennifer Lopez takes the stage to present the first Grammy award of the night.
J.Lo, a two-Grammy winner herself, wears a dazzling, diamond-encrusted gown to present the Best Pop Vocal Album award.
The gong goes to Harry Styles for Harry’s House.
The English superstar is visibly emotional as his name is read out, and as he heads to the stage, his ex Taylor Swift shares her support, clapping excitedly for his win.
Styles’ acceptance speech is simple as he thanks his producers, friends and family for their support.
“This album from start to finish has been the greatest experience of my life. From making it with two of my best friends to playing it for people,” Styles says.
“It has been the greatest joy I could’ve asked for. So I want to thank Rob, Jeffrey, Tommy, Tom, Tom, Tyler, and everyone who inspired this album, everyone who inspired this album, everyone, all my friends who supported me through it.
“Thank you so much. I wouldn’t be here without you. Thank you so much.”
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12.12pm: Adele fangirls over Dwayne Johnson
Proving he is the hostess with the mostest, Trevor Noah introduces Adele and Dwayne Johnson for the first time.
Apparently, Adele has always wanted to meet the former wrestler and what better moment than the present when both are seated in the frontrow.
“This is one of the strangest things I found out. The person that Adele has always wanted to meet, but never have, is Dwayne Johnson,” Noah tells the crowd, while asking Adele: “You have never met him? And then I found out that he’s a huge fan of yours too. And I don’t have Dwayne Johnson here tonight, but I do have someone called The Rock.”
12.08 pm: ‘Oh wow’: Taylor shocked over host’s reveal
Trevor Noah gets the entire room excited after announcing music icon Beyoncé is actually attending this year’s Grammys, joking that her highly-nominated album Renaissance inspired him to quit his job.
He then finds Swift, announcing the singer’s album Midnights was the most-sold album of the year in 2022.
Even the Lavender Haze singer herself seemed stunned at her own album sales, looking stumped and mouthing ‘wow’ as the camera pans towards her.
12.07pm: Host Trevor Noah opens the show, makes Harry Styles blush
Host Trevor Noah opens the Grammys with a hilarious speech while milling around the room filled with A-list musicians, including Beyonce, Lizzo and Harry Styles, who is left blushing after Noah’s joke.
“I mean, what can you say about this man that hasn’t been said? Incredible album. Mind-blowing,” Noah tells the crowd.
“Women throw their panties at this man then he puts them on and he looks better in them than they do. Easily the world’s sexiest man. There’s no competition. Sex symbol of the globe.”
12.02pm: Bad Bunny opens the 2023 Grammy Awards
Bad Bunny opens the 2023 Grammy Awards with his hit song El Apagón and a whole lot of wow factor.
The Puerto Rican superstar sprinkles the ceremony with a little Latin flavour, with the stage resembling a Latin street party. Taylor Swift even got up from her seat for a little boogie.
10.45am: Stars dazzle on the red carpet
From Lizzo in a textural, detailed floral number to Harry Styles’ glittery harlequin jumpsuit and Shania Twain’s foray into red hair, stars are really delivering on the eye-catching fashions.
We’re seeing lots of sparkly embellishments and bold jewel colours, including blue, red and pink, on the red carpet.
10.23am: Viola Davis wins a Grammy, making her an EGOT
Actress Viola Davis has won the Grammy Award for best audiobook, narration and storytelling, making her one of the few people in history to reach EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) status.
The Woman King actress, 57, won the gong for her memoir Finding Me at the 65th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony.
“Oh my God! I wrote this book to honour the six-year-old Viola, to honour her life, her joy, her trauma, everything,” Davis said in her acceptance speech. “And it has just been such a journey. I just EGOT!”
Davis also thanked her husband Julius Tennon and her 12-year-old daughter Genesis.
“You are my life and my joy, the best chapter in my book. Thank you!”
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