Sam Smith conquers Grammys

The Grammys stayed with British soul singer Sam Smith throughout the 57th awards show Sunday in Los Angeles.

“Thank you all for the best night of my life,” remarked a grateful Smith as he took home four top awards: best new artist, song of the year and record of the year for “Stay with Me”, and best pop vocal album for “In the Lonely Hour”.

Smith was rewarded for being the only solo artiste to sell more than a million albums in both the UK and US in 2014. 

He lost out on the best album award to Beck. The indie troubadour bagged the awards for album of the year, best rock album and best engineered non-classical album for “Morning Phase”. 

Pharrell Williams, Beyonce and Rosanne Cash won three awards each.

Pharrell's “Girl” won best urban contemporary album, while “Happy” won best music video and best pop solo performance. He performed that hit on the night with pianist Lang Lang and composer Hans Zimmer.

“Drunk In Love”, Beyonce's collaboration with her husband Jay-Z, was named best R&B performance and best R&B song. Beyonce also won best surround sound album.

The other triple winner, Rosanne Cash, picked up the best American roots performance and song awards for “A Feather's Not A Bird” and best Americana album.

Ed Sheeran, who had three nominations, went home empty-handed, but did join ELO's Jeff Lynne on stage to perform at the ceremony.

Other performers at the Los Angeles ceremony included Sir Paul McCartney, Madonna, Kanye West and Rihanna, who teamed up to play their joint composition FourFiveSeconds.

Madonna was joined by male dancers wearing glittering masks and horns to perform 'Living For Love”, from her new album Rebel Heart.

There were also duets between Jessie J and Sir Tom Jones, Hozier and Annie Lennox and Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.

The ceremony departed from pure entertainment for a segment in which US President Barack Obama sent a recorded video message in support of a campaign against domestic violence. 

Source: Internet