The 64th annual Grammy Awards kicked off live from Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena Sunday night, hosted by Trevor Noah.

Chris Stapleton won big, snagging the award for Best Country Album for Starting Over during the televised portion of the awards ceremony. He also won Best Country Song for “Cold,” which he later took the stage to effortlessly perform.

Another amazing performance came from Brandi Carlile, who, after being introduced by music icons Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell, sang her Grammy-nominated hit “Right On Time.”

Looking fierce, Carrie Underwood performed her new song “Ghost Story” for the first time ever. Showing off her powerhouse vocals, she was slowly raised into the air on a platform as the song came an end.

Ending on a high, Brothers Osborne closed out the show giving an electric performance of “Dead Man’s Curve,” which comes after the duo, consisting of brothers TJ and John Osborne, won their first ever Grammy award for Best County Duo/Group Performance for “Younger Me.”

Accepting the award, TJ, joined by his brother at the podium during a pre-telecast premiere ceremony, said, “For those of you who do not know, this song was written really in response to me coming out.”

“I never thought I would be able to do music professionally because of my sexuality,” he continued. “And I certainly never thought I would be here on this stage accepting a Grammy after having done something I felt like was going to be life-changing, potentially in a very negative way. And here I am tonight, not only accepting this Grammy award with my brother, who I love so much, but I’m here with a man that I love and who loves me back. I don’t know what I did to get so lucky.”

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

The 64th annual Grammy Awards kicked off live from Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena Sunday night, hosted by Trevor Noah. 

Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak’s, Silk Sonic started music’s biggest night, with a smooth performance of their hit “777.” The duo also won big, taking home the Grammy for each of the four categories they were nominated for, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Leave the Door Open.”

Lil Nas X got the crowd hype with mixture of songs from his debut album MONTERO, including “Industry Baby” featuring Jack Harlow, who joined him.

Legendary rap icon Nas performed a medley of his hits over the years including 2001’s “One Mic,” 2002’s “Made You Look,” and “Rare” from his 2021 album King’s Disease II, which was nominated for Album of the Year. 

John Legend, joined by three women from Ukraine — an instrumentalist, a vocalist, and a third who delivered a spoken word — led a moving performance of the spiritual “Go Down, Moses.”

The multi-talented H.E.R. sang her hits “Damage” and “We Made It,” before Travis Barker and Lenny Kravitz hopped on stage with her for a cover of Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way.” 

Other notable moments during the ceremony included Jazmine Sullivan winning Best R&B Album for Heaux Tales, where she explained, “I think that I wrote this project to deal with my own thing… but what it ended up being was a safe space for Black women to tell their stories.” 

Also, Doja Cat getting emotional as she and SZA, who hobbled to the stage on crutches due to an undisclosed injury, accepted the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Kiss Me More.”

“Damn, I like to down play s*** but… it’s a big deal,” Doja said as she wiped away tears. Doja nearly missed accepting the award after she stepped away to use the bathroom.

Jon Batiste — the top nominee going into the night — took home Album of the Year for We Are, in addition to winning four trophies during the pre-show.

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

It was a big night for Silk Sonic and Olivia Rodrigo Sunday at the 64th annual Grammy Awards.

Silk Sonic kicked off the show with an ultra seductive performance of “777,” which host Trevor Noah joked was enough to steal everyone’s girlfriends. Their night only got better from there, as the duo took home four awards: Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best R&B Song for “Leave The Door Open,” as well as tying with Jazmine Sullivan for Best R&B Performance.

Olivia, meanwhile, snagged three awards: Best Pop Solo Performance for “drivers license,” which she belted out on the Grammy stage, Best Pop Vocal Album for SOUR and Best New Artist.  She emotionally declared upon picking up the latter, “This is my biggest dream come true!”

The most memorable moment probably came from Doja Cat, who sprinted from the bathroom to collect the Best Pop Duo / Group Performance award and hilariously — but breathlessly — thanked the Academy for recognizing her “Kiss Me More” collab with SZA, who was on crutches.

Lady Gaga earned praise for jumping out of her seat to help SZA up the stairs.  Speaking of Gaga, she won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Love for Sale, her collaborative album with Tony Bennett.  She also tearfully shouted out Bennett when performing “Love For Sale” and “Do I Love You,” saying she loves and misses him.

Lil Nas X turned heads with a medley of his hits — and multiple wardrobe changes — performing “Dead Right Now,” “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and “Industry Baby” with Jack Harlow. 

Other notable performances include BTS, where all seven members reunited on the Grammy stage to perform “Butter” after Jungkook tested positive for COVID-19 early last week.  Billie Eilish also brought down the house with an incredible performance of “Happier Than Ever” and paid tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins by wearing a tee shirt with his face on it.

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

The Foo Fighters were set to perform at the 64th Grammy Awards on Sunday night, but withdrew from the ceremony following drummer Taylor Hawkins‘ tragic death. In place of their scheduled performance, the Academy put together a beautiful tribute to Hawkins, which featured footage of past performances set to Foos’ smash hit “My Hero.”  

Hawkins’ tribute preceded the “In Memoriam” segment, which honored music legends we lost over the past year.  Among those celebrated was ZZ Top‘s Dusty Hill, Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones, Don Everly, Meat Loaf, Procol Harum founder Gary Brooker, drummers Roger Hawkins and Ron Tutt, songwriter James Richard Steinman, guitarist Rusty Young and Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees.

Billie Eilish also honored the late Foos drummer by wearing a Taylor Hawkins shirt during her “Happier Than Ever” performance.

As previously reported, the Foos were further honored by the Academy during the pre-show Premiere Ceremony. They swept all three awards of which they were nominated: Best Rock Album for Medicine at Night, Best Rock Song for “Waiting on a War” and Best Rock Performance for “Making a Fire.”

On the metal side, Dream Theater took home the golden trophy for “The Alien,” which beat out Deftones, Gojura, Mastodon and Rob Zombie for Best Metal Performance.

Later in the night, Travis Barker and Lenny Kravitz joined R&B artist H.E.R. for a high octane performance of “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” which drew a standing ovation.

Kravitz later presented the award for Album of the Year, which went to Jon Batiste.

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Halsey hadn’t attended the Grammy Awards in five years and, sadly, they had to cut the night short Sunday for health reasons.

Prior to the ceremony, the singer revealed on Instagram, “The last time I attended the Grammys was 2017 and it was 3 days after I had my first Endometriosis surgery. I walked the carpet with my stitches still in… As luck would have it, I’m attending tomorrow for the first time in years and I had surgery again (you guessed it) 3 days ago.”

“If you see me be gentle lol I’m fragile. Fragile but excited,” they added.

About an hour into the show on Sunday, the “Bad At Love” singer revealed on their Instagram Story they “left early” because they weren’t “feeling super well.”  Halsey revealed they did tough it out until BTS, whom they collaborated with on “Boy With Luv,” took the stage to perform an over-the-top rendition of “Butter.”

The Grammy nominee told fans they are “going to get pasta and sleep” before thanking fans for their support.

Feel better, Halsey!

Halsey was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, losing to St. Vincent‘s Daddy’s Home.

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Glass Animals are up for Best New Artist at tonight’s Grammys, but they won’t be attending, because frontman Dave Bayley has tested positive for COVID-19.

“I feel fine, and am showing no symptoms so far, but nonetheless it would be truly irresponsible for me to attend the Grammy ceremony,” he writes on Instagram. “I am so overwhelmingly heartbroken…I wanted to be there for all of us as this has been a colossal team effort.”

Among the people for whom Bayley wanted to attend the ceremony, he wrote, is “my best friend who passed away who I do all of this for, who ‘Heat Waves’ was about, and who I get to share all these amazing moments with even though our time on Earth together ended too soon.”

Bayley concludes by writing that to prepare for the Grammys, he has “ordered room service and I am prepped with several bags of cheetos and gummy bear multivitamins.”  He adds, “I am ready to kick the small point a** of COVID and cheer for all the amazing musicians and records being honored tonight…we will be there in spirit.”

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Here are the winners in the rock categories for the 2022 Grammys, which were handed out Sunday during the pre-show Premiere Ceremony:

Foo Fighters won all three Grammys they were up for: Best Rock Album for Medicine at Midnight, Best Rock Song for “Waiting on a War,” and Best Rock Performance for “Making a Fire.” The Foos were also scheduled to perform during this year’s awards, but Rolling Stone reports that they canceled the appearance due to the tragic unexpected death of drummer Taylor Hawkins on March 25.

Meanwhile, Dream Theater‘s “The Alien” won Best Metal Performance, while St. Vincent‘s Daddy’s Home won Best Alternative Music Album.

Outside of the dedicated rock categories, Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media alongside Jon Batiste for their work on the Disney/Pixar movie Soul, and Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda earned Best Remixed Recording for his remix of Deftones‘ “Passenger.”

The official Grammy ceremony begins Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.

Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.