There are over 90 different Grammy Awards presented each year; but music fans see only a handful of the biggest awards presented each year in the live television broadcast.  This year the Recording Academy added some new categories – Non-Classical Producer of the Year, Best Pop Dance Recording and Best African Music Performance.

African music star Tyla will take home the inaugural trophy for Best African Music Performance back home to South Africa.  The 22 year old said that she though she would never win a Grammy. 

The award comes on the heels of Tyla became the first South African artist in over 50 years to have a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her song “Water”.

Australian Pop star Kylie Minogue wins her second Grammy Awards as the inaugural winner of trophy for Best Pop Dance Recording for her song “Padam Padam”.

A new award last year, the Songwriter of the Year Award went to Theron Thomas this year for his contributions to Hip-Hop and R&B music including the songs “Been Thinking” and “All My Life”.

This is the first Grammy win for the Virgin Island native; whose father predicted his son would win a Grammy when Theron was just nine years old.


There were some three hours of award presentations; handing out most of the awards as fans and artists alike await the live television broadcast of the “66th Annual Grammy Awards”.


It’s the biggest night in music – the Grammy Awards – and Dua Lipa gets the night of musical performance started off with a performance.

Mariah Carey presents the first award of the night for Best Pop Solo Performance to Miley Cyrus for “Flowers”. 

Country music star Luke Combs performs Tracy Champman’s smash hit “Fast Car” – a song that earned him a number of Country Music Awards – with Tracy herself!

Maluma and Christina Aguilera present the award for Best Musica Urbana Album to Karol G for “Manana Sera Bonita”.  This is the first Grammy for the Columbian star.

The most nominated artist of the 2024 Grammy Awards SZA gives a performance.

With her brother playing the piano, Billie Eilish performs her song “What Was I Made For” from the hit motion picture film “Barbie”.

After winning the award for the song, Miley Cyrus takes the stage to perform her hit “Flowers” on television for the very first time.

Kacey Musgraves presents the award for Best Country Album to Lainey Wilson for “Bellbottom Country”.  This is Lainey’s first Grammy Award.

Lizzo presents the award for Best R&B Song for “Snooze” performed by SZA.  She runs on the stage screaming and hugs Lizzo.  She was very overwhelmed during her acceptance speech.

Olivia Rodrigo performs “Vampire” – a song that has been nominated for song and record of the year.

In a special presentation, live from the Sphere in Las Vegas, U2 performs and presents the award for Best Bop Vocal Album to Taylor Swift for her album “Midnights”.  This is her 13th Grammy Award.  She announced the upcoming release of her new album in April.

Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Lenny Kravitz, Fantasia, Jon Batiste, and Oprah honour the artists who have walked on over the past year. 

Stevie pays tribute to Tony Bennett with “For Once in My Life” with a clip of Tony alsp performing the song.  Stevie continues with the “In Memorium” segment with “The Best is Yet to Come” as the names of the artists are shown on the screen.

Annie Lennox continues the tribute with “Nothing Compares 2 You” as the name continue.

Lenny Kravitz spoke on Clarence Avant a pioneer in the music industry.  Jon Batiste performs “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” and “Lean on Me”. 

And the celebration of life continues with Oprah speaking on Tina Turner and Fantasia singing “Proud Mary”.

The 2024 Dr. Dre Global Impact Award was presented to Jay-Z for his contributions to music and culture.  His daughter Blue Ivy joined him on the stage.  He tells the crowd that they need to keep showing up until “they” get it right.

Lionel Richie presents the award for Song of the Year for “What Was I Made For” sung by Billie Eilish.  Eilish and brother Finneas wrote the song.  Billie said that she was shocked and didn’t think she had a chance in the world for winning the award.  Finneas said that they felt very humbled.

At 80, Joni Mitchell takes the Grammy Award stage for the very first time and sang “Both Sides Now”!

Rap star Travis Scott takes the stage for a performance.

Recording Academy president and musician Harvey Mason Jr addresses the crowd about the diversity of the show and the international flavour of the music.  He notes that music must always be our safe place; and spoke on the tragedies of violence during musical events.  “Music must remain the common ground on which we all stand.”  He concluded by saying that now is the time for us as humanity to come together.

For the first time on the Grammy stage, Grammy Award winning Nigerian artist Burna Boy presents his Afrobeats music with some help from Brany and 21 Savage.

Jazz artist Samara Joy and reigning New Artist of the Year; continuing the tradition, she presents the same award to Victoria Monet.

Mark Ronson and Meryl Streep (his mother-in-law) present the award Record of the Album to Miley Cyrus for “Flowers”.

After 30 years, “Piano Man” Billy Joel has sold out Madison Square Garden over 150 times…and now he has a new song out; which he performs on the Grammy stage.

Five time Grammy Award winner Celine Dion takes the stage to present the biggest award of the night.  But first she remarks on how happy she truly is to be there and speaks on how their music affects people around the world.  The award for Album of the Year goes to Taylor Swift for “Midnights”  With this win she becomes the all time leader in Album of the Year awards with four.  She said that she is very happy and wants to keep making music.

Billy Joel closes out the night with “I May Be Crazy”.