Grammy Awards Premiere: Favorites Brandi, Beyonce Take Home Multiple Awards, Viola Davis Earns EGOT

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The 65th GRAMMY AWARDS PREMIERE CEREMONY, which honors most of the 91 nominees not announced during the CBS telecast, took place this morning at the MICROSOFT THEATER in LOS ANGELES.

BEYONCE was among the first batch of winners, taking home BEST ELECTRONIC/DANCE RECORDING for "Break My Soul," as well as BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE for "PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA," two of the nine categories in which she has been nominated. She lost to MUNI LONG, the upset winner for "Hrs & Hrs," in the BEST R&B PERFORMANCE category. TAYLOR SWIFT won one during the pre-telecast for BEST MUSIC VIDEO for her self-directed, 10-minute "All Too Well: 10-Minute Version The Short Film."

Eight-time nominee KENDRICK LAMAR was the winner in BEST RAP PERFORMANCE for "The Heart Part Five" and BEST RAP SONG for the same track. BRANDI CARLILE showed up with her band to accept BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE and BEST ROCK SONG for "Broken Horses." "I just won a GRAMMY for writing a rock 'n' roll song," she gushed from the stage, before landing one more in the BEST AMERICANA ALBUM category for "In These Silent Days," giving her three going into the telecast.

BEST NEW ARTIST nominee SAMARA JOY was presented with BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM for "Linger Awhile." VIOLA DAVIS showed up to pick up her BEST AUDIOBOOK for "Finding Me," giving her a GRAMMY to go along with her EMMY, OSCAR and TONY, and making her a coveted EGOT winner. 

Just after announcing he would be retiring from touring, OZZY OSBOURNE won a pair of GRAMMYS for BEST METAL PERFORMANCE and BEST ROCK ALBUM.

BEST NEW ARTIST nominees WET LEG turned up to accept two GRAMMYs for BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE for "Chaise Longue" and BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM for their self-titled debut.

LATIN star ROSALIA grabbed BEST LATIN ROCK OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM for her critically acclaimed, "Motomami" album. 

EDGAR WINTER praised the ACADEMY for "skintone diversity," accepting his GRAMMY for a tribute to brother JOHNNY, for BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM, while longtime RECORDING ACADEMY fave BONNIE RAITT earned her two awards for BEST AMERICANA PERFORMANCE and BEST AMERICANA ROOTS SONG, showing up to accept in person. "I'm so proud for how long I've been doing this," she said, thanking the AMERICANA category for giving artists like her "a home."

Gospel star KIRK FRANKLIN was the pre-show's big winner with four GRAMMYs for his collaboration with MAVERICK CITY MUSIC, "One Deluxe."

TOBIAS JESSO JR. won the first-ever SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR, Non-Classical honors, sharing it with the "songwriting community," while JACK ANTONOFF earned PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, Non-Classical.

Said RECORDING ACADEMY CEO HARVEY MASON, JR., "Not only do we have an incredible lineup of presenters and performers, but this ceremony will also reveal the winners in the vast majority of our categories, celebrating this amazing year in music across many of our genre communities. Music is a miracle that brings us all together." 

By our calculation, aside from the Big Four categories, the following will be awarded on-air tonight: BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE, BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE, BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM, BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC MUSIC ALBUM, BEST R&B SONG, BEST RAP ALBUM and BEST COUNTRY ALBUM.

The event was hosted by GRAMMY nominee for Best Comedy Album RANDY RAINBOW and featured an opening number by nominees BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA (Best Americana Performance), LA MARISOUL from LA SANTA CECILIA (Best Tropical Latin Album), Gospel star MARANDA CURTIS (Best Gospel Album) and musical theater stalwart SHOSHANA BEAN (Best Musical Theater Album) with Blues guitarist BUDDY GUY (Best Traditional Blues Album) and BOB MINTZER (Best Instrumental Jazz Album), performing an uplifting version of RARE EARTH's  "I Just Want to Celebrate."

Other artists who gave live performances included nominees AROOJ AFTAB (Best Global Music Performance), MADISON CUNNINGHAM (Best American Roots Performance), SAMARA JOY (Best New Artist, Best Jazz Vocal Album), ANOUSHKA SHANKAR (Best Global Music Performance,Best Global Music Album) and CARLOS VIVES (Best Tropical Latin Album).

Presenting the GRAMMY Awards during the PREMIERE ceremony were nominees JUDY COLLINS (Best Folk Album), BABYFACE (Best Traditional R&B Performance), DOMI & JD BECK (Best New Artist, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album), TONY AWARD winner MYLES FROST (Best Musical Theater Album), ARTURO O'FARRILL (Best Latin Jazz Album), MALCOLM JAMAL-WARNER (Best Spoken Word Poetry Album), AMANDA GORMAN (Best Spoken World Poetry) and five-time GRAMMY winner and former RECORDING ACADEMY Board Of Trustees Chair JIMMY JAM. RECORDING ACADEMY Chair Of The Board Of Trustees TAMMY HURT provided opening remarks.

For a complete list of winners, go here. 

Here are some of the early awards handed out:

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA: "Encanto"
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA (FILM or TV): GERMAINE FRANCO, "Encanto"
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VIDEOGAMES AND OTHER INTERACTIVE MEDIA: STEPHANIE ECONOMOU, "Assassins Creed Valhalla: Dawn Of Ragnarok"
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC RECORDING: BEYONCE, "Break My Soul"
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL: HARRY STYLES, "Harry's House"
BEST NEW AGE, AMBIENT OR CHANT ALBUM: WHITE SUN, "Mystic Mirror"
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS: VINCE MENDOZA, CHRISTINE McVIE's "Songbird" (Orchestral Version)
BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM: SAMARA JOY, "Linger Awhile"
BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON, KRIS DAVIS, LINDA MAY HAN OH, NICHOLAS PAYTON & MATTHEW STEVENS, "New Standards, Vol. 1"
BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM: "GENERATION GAP JAZZ ORCHESTRA"
BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM: MICHAEL BUBLE, "Higher"
BEST CHILDREN'S MUSIC ALBUM: ALPHABET ROCKERS, "The Movement"
BEST AUDIOBOOK, NARRATION AND STORYTELLING RECORDING: VIOLA DAVIS, "Finding Me"
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE: MUNI LONG, "Hrs & Hrs"
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE: BEYONCE, "PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA"
BEST PROGRESSIVE R&B ALBUM: STEVE LACY, "Gemini Rights"
BEST R&B ALBUM: ROBERT GLASPER, "Black Radio III"
BEST RAP PERFORMANCE: KENDRICK LAMAR, "The Heart Part 5"
BEST MELODIC RAP PERFORMANCE: FUTURE, "Wait 4 U" featuring DRAKE & TEMS
BEST RAP SONG: KENDRICK LAMAR, "The Heart Part 5"
BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE: BRANDI CARLILE, "Broken Horses"
BEST METAL PERFORMANCE: OZZY OSBOURNE f/TONY IOMMI, "Degradation Rules"
BEST ROCK SONG: BRANDI CARLILE, "Broken Horses"
BEST ROCK ALBUM: OZZY OSBOURNE, "Patient Number 9"
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE: WET LEG, "Chaise Longue"
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM: WET LEG, "WET LEG"
BEST REGGAE ALBUM: KABAKA PYRAMID, "The Kalling"
BEST GLOBAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE: WOUTER KELLERMAN, ZAKES BANTWINI & NOMCEBO ZIKODE, "Bayethe"
BEST GLOBAL MUSIC ALBUM: MASA TAKUMI, "Sakura"
BEST LATIN POP ALBUM: RUBEN BLADES & BOCA LIVRE, "Pasieros"
BEST LATIN ROCK OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM: ROSALIA, "Motomami"
BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE: THE GRATEFUL DEAD, "In And Out Of The Garden: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ’81 ’82 ’83"
BEST ALBUM NOTES: BOB MEHR, WILCO, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM: CHERYL PAWELSKI & JEFF TWEEDY, WILCO, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
BEST COUNTRY DUO OR GROUP PERFORMANCE: CARLY PEARCE & ASHLEY McBRYDE, "Never Wanted To Be That Girl"
BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE: WILLIE NELSON, "Live Forever"
BEST COUNTRY SONG: MATT ROGERS & BEN STENNIS, CODY JOHNSON, "'Til You Can't"
BEST TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM: TAJ MAHAL & RY COODER, "Get On Board"
BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM: EDGAR WINTER, "Brother JOHNNY"
BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC ALBUM: MAVERICK CITY MUSIC, "Breathe"
BEST GOSPEL ALBUM: MAVERICK CITY MUSIC & KIRK FRANKLIN, "One Deluxe"
BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE, SONG: MAVERICK CITY MUSIC & KIRK FRANKLIN, "Fear Is Not My Future"
BEST GOSPEL PERFORMANCE/SONG: MAVERICK CITY MUSIC & KIRK FRANKLIN, "Kingdom"
BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENAL ALBUM: SNARKY PUPPY, "Empire Central"
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE: AARON NEVILLE and the DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND, "Stompin' Ground"
BEST AMERICANA PERFORMANCE: BONNIE RAITT, "Made Up Mind"
BEST AMERICANA ROOTS SONG: BONNIE RAITT, "Just Like That"
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM: BRANDI CARLILE, "In These Silent Days"
BEST SPOKEN WORD POETRY ALBUM: J. IVY, "The Poet Who Sat By The Door"
BEST FOLK ALBUM: MADISON CUNNINGHAM, "Revealer"
BEST COMEDY ALBUM: DAVE CHAPPELLE, "The Closer"
BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM: "Into The Woods" (2022 Broadcast Cast Recording)
BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA: LIN MANUEL MIRANDA, "We Don't Talk About Bruno"
BEST MUSIC VIDEO: TAYLOR SWIFT, "All Too Well: The Short Film"
BEST MUSIC FILM: "Jazz Fest: A NEW ORLEANS Story"
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR: TOBIAS JESSO JR.
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL: JACK ANTONOFF

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