Beyoncé was shocked to win nation music’s greatest award on the 2025 Grammy Awards.
The “16 Carriages” singer took Finest Nation Album on Sunday (Feb. 2).
“I actually was not anticipating this,” the singer mentioned, trying to find phrases to just accept an award she didn’t assume was coming. Her Cowboy Carter album was shut out on the CMA Awards in November, however the bigger Grammy viewers appreciated her effort.
“Typically i believe ‘style’ is a chilly phrase to maintain us in our place as artists,” she mentioned as her friends and husband Jay-Z seemed on. “I simply wanna encourage folks to do what they’re keen about.”
Taylor Swift offered the award to Beyoncé. Each are up for Album of the Yr later on the Grammys.
Cowboy Carter got here out in March 2024 and marked the long-anticipated foray into the nation style that Beyoncé’s followers had been clamoring for ever since she appeared on the CMA Awards stage again in 2016.
Its lead single, “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” was a Billboard chart-topping smash hit, however the challenge did not get a complete lot of recognition throughout country-specific awards reveals in 2024.
Earlier on Sunday night time, Beyoncé — who’s the winningest lady in Grammys historical past — claimed her first nation trophy on the awards present for Finest Nation Duo/Group Efficiency.
The 2024 Grammy Awards are happening at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Area. Followers can tune in to CBS to observe or stream on Paramount+.
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The Grammys purple carpet is a spot to take probabilities, and wow did some artists ever do exactly that in 2025. Monitor fits, boyfriend branding, full nudity and — is {that a} field on Will Smith’s son’s head?
Listed below are the wildest appears from the 2025 Grammy Awards purple carpet, together with Taylor Swift, who seems to be dressed fairly usually, till you zoom in.
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