The Latest on the 64th annual Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday in Las Vegas (all times local):
6:13 p.m.
She got her license, and now she’s got her second Grammy.
Olivia Rodrigo was named best new artist at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
Rodrigo was in tears as she took the stage to accept the award. She said “this is my biggest dream come true.”
The 19-year-old singer-songwriter and Disney Channel star had a breakout musical year with her hit album “Sour” and smash single “Drivers License.”
Earlier Sunday, Rodrigo won her first Grammy for best pop solo vocal performance for “Drivers License,” which she performed at the beginning of the telecast.
She’s also nominated for record of the year and album of the year.
Women have dominated the best new artist category in recent years. The past three winners included Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion, who presented the award to Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish, who performed just before it was handed out.
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6 p.m.
Chris Stapleton’s “Starting Over” has won the Grammy for best country album.
Stapleton took the award Sunday on the birthday of his 4-year-old twins, two of his five children, and said he was sad that the career that brought him such accolades has forced him to be away from home on so many special days.
It was Stapleton’s third Grammy of the day.
Earlier, he won best country solo performance for a record third time for his song “You Should Probably Leave.”
And he and three co-writers won country song of the year for “Cold.”
Stapleton, who also performs later in the show, has won eight career Grammys overall.
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5:33 p.m.
Silk Sonic is having a funky Grammys.
The Grammy Award for song of the year goes to the duo’s “Leave The Door Open.”
The songwriting award goes to the duo’s two members, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, along with two co-writers.
The award was the first handed out during Sunday’s telecast of the Grammys from the MGM Grand Garden arena in Las Vegas.
Mars and .Paak stood up and grooved when the win was announced and the song played.
The two men, who performed to open the show, also won a Grammy for best R&B performance before the telecast started.
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5:15 p.m.
Host Trevor Noah has opened a Grammy Awards show that he says will be part party, part concert, with some trophies handed out in between.
The comedian and “Daily Show” host delivered his opening monologue between performances by Silk Sonic and Olivia Rodrigo at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
He walked among tables set up near the stage instead of theater seats.
“Look at this room, this is a party, everyone’s hanging out we’ve got the tables, we’re doing shots. Last year we were doing shots like Moderna and Pfizer,” Noah said.
He added, “We’re going to be dancing, we’re going to be singing, we’re going to be keeping people’s names out of our mouths.”
The crowd laughed at the reference to Will Smith shouting to Chris Rock to keep wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s name out of his mouth after slapping Rock on the Oscars stage a week earlier.
It was Noah’s second-straight year hosting the show, but the first with a typical, arena-sized Grammy crowd.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, last year’s awards were held in an outdoor pavilion in Los Angeles with only a small audience of nominees and guests.
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5 p.m.
Silk Sonic brought back the ’70s with a Vegas-inspired set to open the Grammy Awards in Sin City on Sunday with spinning roulette wheels on the screens.
The duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak set the tone with their performance of “777” and a jamming horn section. Mars started the show imploring the Las Vegas crowd at the MGM Grand Arena to get up and dance.
The pair won two awards during the pre-telecast ceremony and are nominated for record and song of the year. The duo’s song “Leave the Door Open” and Jazmine Sullivan’s “Pick Up Your Feelings” tied to win best R&B…
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