It’s the biggest night in music with the 65th annual Grammy Awards.  Trevor Noah returns to host the first live awards gala in three years.

More than just the biggest night for music, it is a night of celebration and possibly a night for making history.  Latin music star Bad Bunny is among the nominees for Album of the Year.  Should he win, Bad Bunny would be the first Latin music star to win the award.

Currently Beyonce has 25 Grammy Awards; should she win four of the awards she is nominated for, she would become the winningest most artist in Grammy Award history.

Bad Bunny opens the night of music with a performance.  He is currently the most streamed artist in the world.

After an introduction by her wife and children, Brandi Carlile gives a performance.

Jennifer Lopez presents the first award of the night during the live television broadcast for the Best Pop Vocal Album to Harry Styles for his album “Harry’s House”.

With her win for Best Audiobook, Viola Davis has joined the list of EGOT winners for winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony Award.  Davis presented the award for Best R&B Song to Beyonce for “Cuff It”.  Citing Los Angeles traffic, Beyonce was not yet in attendance.  Nile Rodgers, who performed on the song, accepted the award.  Having already won two awards in the pre-Grammy presentations, Beyonce tied the record at 28 for the most Grammys in history.

Now with some firey red hair, Shania Twain presented the award for Best Country Album to Willie Nelson for his album “A Beautiful Time”.  Approaching 90, Nelson was not at the awards but watching from home.

Billy Crystal presented the 2023 MusiCares Person(s) of the Year – Motown’s Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson.  Stevie Wonder kicked off a tribute performance that included Robinson himself.  Chris Stapleton was also among those on the stage for the performance.  The musicians had the audience on their feet.

After the tribute, Smokey Robinson presented the award for Best Pop Duo or Group Performance award to British artist Sam Smith and German artist Kim Petras for their song “Unholy”.  With the win, Petras became the first transgender woman to win the award.

Lizzo gave a performance.

SZA presented the award for Best Musica Urbana Album to Bad Bunny for “Un Verano Sin Ti”.  Speaking English in the beginning, Bad Bunny game much of his acceptance speech in Spanish.

Donned in a silver costume that resembled icicles, Harry Styles gave a performance.

Cardi B presented the award for Best Rap Album to Kendrick Lamar for “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers”.

Host Trevor Noah noted that harmony isn’t just the harmony of sound; but also, the harmony of people.

For the In Memorium segment Kacey Musgraves playing Loretta Lynn’s guitar, Quavo, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, and Mick Fleetwood all performed as the names and images of those artists who died over the past year were displayed.  Also included in the list was dancer and DJ tWitch.

Madonna introduced Sam Smith and Kim Petras who gave a performance of the Grammy Award winning song “Unholy”.

Comedian James Cordon presented the award for Best Dance or Electronic Album to Beyonce for “Renaissance”.  With that award, Beyonce broke the record to become the winningest Grammy Award artist of all time with 29.

Trevor Noah proclaimed Beyonce the GOAT…end of discussion!

Mary J Blige gave a performance of her Grammy nominated song “Good Morning Gorgeous”.

Rap artist and actor LL Cool J presented a new award this year for uplifting African American artists.  Upon the receipt of the inaugural award, it will henceforth be named after the recipient.  Rap music pioneer Dr. Dre was presented with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award.

Fifty years ago a new art form was created in the Bronx at a party.  Today Hip-Hop is one of the biggest genres in music.  The Grammys and the Recording Academy paid tribute to Rap and Hip-Hop with a 32 artist performance.

Noting that music has always been a big part of his life, Dwayne Jackson presented the award for Best Solo Pop Performance to Adele for her song “Easy on Me”.  A surprised Adele said that she had come to enjoy the festivities and never expected to win.

While he has performed on the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association stages many times, Luke Combs makes his first Grammy Awards appearance for a performance.

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden presented the award for Best Song for Social Change to Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour for his song praising women’s rights and freedom.  He was even arrested for the song and faces possible jail time.

The First Lady also presented the award for Song of the Year to a shocked and stunned Bonnie Raitt who beat out Beyonce and Adele for the award.  Calling it an unreal moment, Raitt noted that the music was inspired by John Prine who died during the Covid pandemic.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin presented the award for Record of the Year to Lizzo for “About Damn Time”.  While shocked when her name was called, Lizzo had plenty to say once she took the stage about positive image and positive music.  She dedicated the award to Prince who wanted to use his music to make the world a better place.

Pamela Dawson was named this year’s Music Educator of the Year.

Julie Greenwals and Craig Kallman from Atlantic Records received the Industry Icon Award.

In a message from Recording Academy President and CEO Harvey Mason Jr noted that “if we can dream it, we can accomplish it.”

Los Angeles native Steve Lacey performed his Grammy nominated song “Bad Habit”

Olivia Rodrigo passed the torch when she presented the same award she won last year when she awarded Samara Joy with the Best New Artist award.

Host Trevor Noah presented the final award of the night for Album of the Year to Harry Styles for his album “Harry’s House”.  Styles noted in his acceptance speech that he has been inspired by all of his fellow nominees and has even listened to them when alone.

DJ Khalid closed out the night of music with a performance of his Grammy nominated song “God Did”.