The list of artists vying for the prestigious music awards were announced on Tuesday. The wife of Jay Z is quoted nine times in front of Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West.
Yet another triumph announced for the american singer Beyoncé. The diva, the queen of R & B across the Atlantic, arrived in the lead with nine nominations at the Grammy Awards, the trophies american music, according to a list published Tuesday by the american academy of the disk, the Recording Academy.
the Author of an album ambitious concept, Lemonade, the american singer ahead of the Canadian Drake (who had been nominated thirteen times for the American Music Awards), its largest competitor, Rihanna for his album Anti, and rapper Kanye West, who just came out of the psychiatric hospital of Los Angeles. These three artists have been mentioned, each eight times.
The ex-Destiny’s Child, aged 35 years, has been named in three of the four major categories: album of the year, album of the year, song of the year. The fourth major category, new artist of the year, he was in any way inaccessible, it will next year celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the release of his first disc.
Beyoncé has eclipsed the british Adele, though, she’s also named in three of the four major categories with his album, yet disappointing, 25, which sold, despite everything, more than ten million copies in the United States. In total, the Uk has been named five times.
This is a new recognition for Beyonce, who dared to album accents very personal, with the evocation of the infidelity of her husband, the rapper Jay-Z, but also resolutely political. She comes back on the police violence which are regularly victims of black men in the United States. The album, released in late April, was accompanied by a medium-length film, co-directed by Beyoncé.
at the End of August, it had already been the big winner of the Video Music Awards (VMA), the awards granted by the music channel MTV, with eight statuettes. Since 2000, and its two first rewards, the young woman from Houston has already been nominated twenty times for Grammy Awards, but never for album of the year.
It is now within reach of Stevie Wonder (25) and country artist Alison Krauss (27), the two singers is the most awarded in the history of american music. The record in all categories remains held by the head of the classical orchestra of Hungarian origin, Georg Solti, honored 31 times.
rap, major kind
Behind Beyoncé, Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West, whose album is released in digital form only and not in CD, draw their pin of the game. With his album unclassifiable The Life of Pablo, West was welcomed, but has not been named in any of the four major categories. Not sure he digests this affront…
Once confined to the categories junior, the rap demonstrates once again his considerable influence in the world of american music. In addition to Kanye West, the academy has honored the Canadian Drake, who is both a singer and rapper, and Chance The Rapper who, at only 23 years old, has been nominated seven times for the promotion 2017. The young artist from Chicago is cited in the category of new artist of the year, along with Anderson Paak, a singer and a rapper.
When the last edition of the Grammy Awards, last February, another rapper, the Californian Kendrick Lamar, had been the king of the evening and won five awards, worn by his album To Pimp a Butterfly, the texts of which cover areas such as race relations.
In the top category of album of the year, in addition to Drake, Beyoncé, and Adele, Justin Bieber appears with his Purpose, a sign of increased recognition of the profession for one who was still regarded, there are few, that as a singer for the teens.
the Other candidate for the supreme award, the outsider Sturgill Simpson, who is part of a new wave of country artists who seek to renew the genre and to open it to a wider audience. Shunned for the categories, the last album of David Bowie, Blackstar, released two days before his death in January, has, however, been mentioned five times, including for best alternative music album.
on the French Side, it should be noted that Jean-Michel Jarre has been nominated in the category for best album dance/electronic Machine, and the group of French death metal Gojira, praised by Metallica, has received two nominations, for best performance metal as well as for the prestigious award for best rock album.
The 59th annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 17 in Los Angeles.
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