Taylor Swift and rapper Kendrick Lamar were honoured big at the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Monday, February 15. Swift bagged Best Pop Vocal for her album 1989, Best Music Video for her single Bad Blood and the key award of Album of the Year for 1989. Lamar, who was nominated in a total of 11 categories, won the Grammy for Best Rap Album for To Pimp a Butterfly.
Receiving the award from rap legend Ice Cube and his son O’Shea Jackson Jr, 28-year-old Lamar appreciated the growing recognition of rap and hip-hop. “This is for hip-hop,” he said. “We will live forever - believe that.”
Lamar won three more Grammy’s for Best Rap Performance for Alright, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for These Walls with Bilal, Anna the Wise and Thundercat, and Best Rap Song for Alright with Pharrell, Kawan Prather and Sounwave.
Ed Sheeran won the award for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year for his hit single Thinking Out Loud.
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars received the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for their huge hit Uptown Funk, which also earned them the coveted Record of the Year trophy.
Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording for Where Are Ü Now and Amy, Asif Kapadia’s acclaimed documentary film about Amy Winehouse, won Best Music Film.
The ceremony was presented by LL Cool J and also included tributes to the late David Bowie from Lady Gaga and a homage to the late Glenn Frey from Eagles members Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, Timothy B Schmidt and Joe Walsh with Jackson Browne.
