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62nd Annual Grammy Awards

62nd Annual Grammy Awards

2020 award ceremony for music

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  • The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 26, 2020, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
  • Alicia Keys hosted the ceremony, having hosted the previous year's ceremony as well.
  • She also became the youngest person to win Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album, at 18 years old, as well as the first person born in the 21st century to win a Grammy award.
  • Ten days prior to the ceremony, Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan was relieved of her duties as president and CEO and placed on administrative leave from the organization.
  • The ceremony was held on the same day as the death of basketball player Kobe Bryant, to whose memory Keys and Boyz II Men dedicated their performance of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".

The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 26, 2020, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, running from October 1, 2018, to August 31, 2019. Alicia Keys hosted the ceremony, having hosted the previous year's ceremony as well.

Lizzo received the most nominations of any artist with eight, followed by Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X with six each, with Eilish becoming the youngest person to be nominated in all the four major categories, at 17 years old.

Finneas, Eilish's brother, received the most awards with six, followed by Eilish herself with five Billie Eilish made Grammy's history by becoming the second person and first female artist to win the four major categories of Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in the same year, after Christopher Cross in 1981. She also became the youngest person to win Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album, at 18 years old, as well as the first person born in the 21st century to win a Grammy award. Finneas became the youngest person to win Producer of the Year, at 22 years old.

Ten days prior to the ceremony, Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan was relieved of her duties as president and CEO and placed on administrative leave from the organization. She sparked controversy by claiming that the organization engaged in corruption and favoritism; Champagne Billecart-Salmon responded by pulling their ads from the broadcast, and Megyn Kelly, Gabrielle Union, and others tweeted their support of Dugan. The ceremony was held on the same day as the death of basketball player Kobe Bryant, to whose memory Keys and Boyz II Men dedicated their performance of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".

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