Story Highlight: Ricky Kej has made history by being the first Indian to win three Grammy Awards. He is also the fourth and youngest Indian recipient of a Grammy Award.
Numerous viewers tune their televisions to watch the yearly music festival each year. Yes! The viewers are subjected to the magic of the Grammy Awards. The nominated songs performed in a flashy manner, the musical parades in eye-popping costumes, and the spectacle-like presentation draw viewers to their televisions. It is also regarded as the music industry’s most prestigious honor.
At the live ceremony held at the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles, USA, the Grammy Awards 2023 results were announced.
Ricky Kej, an Indian music composer based in Bengaluru, won the 65th Grammy Award 2023 under the best immersive audio album category for his critically praised album, Divine Tides. He shared the award with the drummer of the renowned British rock band The Police, Stewart Copeland
Ricky Kej has made history by being the first Indian to win three Grammy Awards. He is also the fourth and youngest Indian recipient of a Grammy Award.
Ricky’s previous victories for “Best New Age Album” went to Divine Tides in 2022 and Winds of Samsara in 2015, respectively.
The musical collection Divine Tides pays homage to “Vasudeva Kutumbakam – The World is one family.” The album, which has nine tracks and eight music videos, was shot all over the world, from the breathtaking Himalayan mountains in India to the icy Spanish forests.
The message of this album is that “each individual life plays a critical role in maintaining the equilibrium that benefits all equally.”
After winning the prize, Ricky Kej stated that while his music has always been cross-cultural, it has deep Indian roots, and he is incredibly delighted that Indian music has been acknowledged and selected for this prestigious title by The Recording Academy.
For his album “West Meets East,” the late Indian composer Pandit Ravi Shankar made history by becoming the first Indian to win a Grammy Award under the category “Best Chamber Music Performance” in 1968.
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Grammy Awards 2023 Winners
Believe it or not, Beyoncé had the night. At the 65th annual Grammys, Beyoncé set a new record for the most wins by an artist. The celebrity, whose album RENAISSANCE was a dazzling career high point, did break the record for the most Grammy awards ever with 32.
She achieves great success in the specialized categories but is overlooked in the general ones. She has never taken home the top Grammy awards, album, or record of the year, and in 2023, she was denied entry once more.
The complete list of 65th Grammy Award winners 2023 is presented below:
Record of the Year
“About Damn Time” – Lizzo
Album of the Year
“Harry’s House” – Harry Styles
Song of the Year
“Just Like That” – Bonnie Raitt, songwriter (Bonnie Raitt)
Best New Artist
Samara Joy
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Easy on Me” – Adele
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Unholy” – Sam Smith and Kim Petras
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
“Higher” – Michael Bublé
Best Pop Vocal Album
“Harry’s House” – Harry Styles
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
“Break My Soul” – Beyoncé
Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
“Renaissance” – Beyoncé
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
“Empire Central” – Snarky Puppy
Best Rock Performance
“Broken Horses” – Brandi Carlile
Best Metal Performance
“Degradation Rules” – Ozzy Osbourne featuring Tony Iommi
Best Rock Song
“Broken Horses” – Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, and Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile)
Best Rock Album
“Patient Number 9” – Ozzy Osbourne
Best Alternative Music Performance
“Chaise Longue” – Wet Leg
Best Alternative Music Album
“Wet Leg” – Wet Leg
Best R&B Performance
“Hrs & Hrs” – Muni Long
Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Plastic Off the Sofa” – Beyoncé
Best R&B Song
“Cuff it” – Beyoncé
Best Progressive R&B Album
“Gemini Rights,” Steve Lacy
Best R&B Album
“Black Radio III,” Robert Glasper
Best Rap Performance
“The Heart Part 5,” Kendrick Lamar
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“Wait for U” – Future featuring Drake and Terms
Best Rap Song
“The Heart Part 5” – Kendrick Lamar
Best Rap Album
“Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” – Kendrick Lamar
Best Country Solo Performance
“Live Forever” – Willie Nelson
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Never Wanted to Be That Girl” – Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde
Best Country Song
“’Till You Can’t” – Matt Rogers and Ben Stennis, songwriters (Cody Johnson)
Best Country Album
“A Beautiful Time” – Willie Nelson
Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album
“Mystic Mirror” – White Sun
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
“Endangered Species” – Wayne Shorter and Leo Genovese, soloist
Best Jazz Vocal Album
“Linger Awhile” – Samara Joy
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
“New Standards Vol. 1” – Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, and Matthew Stevens
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
“Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra” – Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra
Best Latin Jazz Album
“Fandango at the Wall in New York” – Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring the Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective
Best Gospel Performance/Song
“Kingdom” – Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, Jonathan Jay, Chandler Moore & Jacob Poole, songwriters
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
“Fear Is Not My Future” – Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, Nicole Hannel, Jonathan Jay, Brandon Lake, and Hannah Shackelford, songwriters
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Best Gospel Album
“Kingdom Book One Deluxe” – Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
“Breathe” – Maverick City Music
Best Roots Gospel Album
“The Urban Hymnal” – Tennessee State University Marching Band
Best Latin Pop Album
“Pasieros” – Rubén Blades and Boca Livre
Best Música Urbana Album
“Un Verano Sin Ti” – Bad Bunny
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
“Motomami” – Rosalía
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
“Un Canto por México — El Musical” – Natalia Lafourcade
Best Tropical Latin Album
“Pa’lla Voy” – Marc Anthony
Best American Roots Performance
“Stompin’ Ground” – Aaron Neville with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Best Americana Performance
“Made Up Mind” – Bonnie Raitt
Best American Roots Song
“Just Like That” – Bonnie Raitt
Best Americana Album
“In These Silent Days” – Brandi Carlile
Best Bluegrass Album
“Crooked Tree” – Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway
Best Traditional Blues Album
“Get On Board” – Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder
Best Contemporary Blues Album
“Brother Johnny” – Edgar Winter
Best Folk Album
“Revealer” – Madison Cunningham
Best Regional Roots Music Album
“Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival” – Ranky Tanky
Best Reggae Album
“The Kalling” – Kabaka Pyramid
Best Global Music Performance
“Bayethe” – Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini and Nomcebo Zikode
Best Global Music Album
“Sakura” – Masa Takumi
Best Children’s Music Album
“The Movement” – Alphabet Rockers
Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
“Finding Me” – Viola Davis
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
“The Poet Who Sat by the Door” – J. Ivy
Best Comedy Album
“The Closer” – Dave Chappelle
Best Musical Theater Album
“Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording),” Sara Bareilles, Brian d’Arcy James, Patina Miller, and Phillipa Soo, principal vocalists; Rob Berman and Sean Patrick Flahaven, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer, and lyricist)
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Encanto” – Various Artists
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Encanto” – Germaine Franco, composer
Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
“Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok” – Stephanie Economou, composer
Best Song Written for Visual Media
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from “Encanto” – Lin-Manuel Miranda
Best Instrumental Composition
“Refuge” – Geoffrey Keezer
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“Scrapple From the Apple” – John Beasley
Best Arrangement, Instruments, and Vocals
“Songbird (Orchestral Version)” – Vince Mendoza
Best Recording Package
“Beginningless Beginning” – Chun-Tien Hsia and Qing-Yang Xiao
Best Boxed or Special Limited-Edition Package
“In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81 ’82 ’83” – Lisa Glines, Doran Tyson, and Dave Van Patten, art directors (The Grateful Dead)
Best Album Notes
“Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)” – Bob Mehr
Best Historical Album
“Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)” – Cheryl Pawelski and Jeff Tweedy
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
“Harry’s House” – Jeremy Hatcher, Oli Jacobs, Nick Lobel, Mark “Spike” Stent, and Sammy Witte, engineers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer (Harry Styles)
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Jack Antonoff
Best Remixed Recording
“About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Remix)” – Purple Disco Machine
Best Immersive Audio Album
“Divine Tides” – Eric Schilling, immersive mix engineer; Stewart Copeland, Ricky Kej & Herbert Waltl, immersive producers
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Best Engineered Album, Classical
“Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique — The Making of the Orchestra” – Shawn Murphy, Charlie Post, and Gary Rydstrom, engineers; Michael Romanowski, mastering engineer (Edwin Outwater and Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Producer of the Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
Best Orchestral Performance
“Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman” – Michael Repper, conductor (New York Youth Symphony)
Best Opera Recording
“Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones” – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Angel Blue, Will Liverman, Latonia Moore, and Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Best Choral Performance
“Born” – Donald Nally, conductor (Dominic German, Maren Montalbano, Rebecca Myers, and James Reese; The Crossing)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
“Shaw: Evergreen” – Attacca Quartet
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
“Letters for the Future” – Time for Three; Xian Zhang, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
“Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene” – Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist
Best Classical Compendium
“An Adoption Story” – Starr Parodi and Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi and Kitt Wakeley, producers
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
“Puts: Contact” – Kevin Puts, composer (Xian Zhang, Time for Three and the Philadelphia Orchestra)
Best Music Video
“All Too Well: The Short Film” – Taylor Swift; Taylor Swift, video director; Saul Germaine, video producer
Best Music Film
“Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story” – Various Artists; Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern, video directors; Frank Marshall, Sean Stuart, and Ryan Suffern, video producers
The Grammy Awards consistently deliver a ton of priceless moments, in part because, unlike award events focused on acting like Oscars, Golden Globes, and Emmys, great musicians continuously perform live and do what they do best: rocking out.
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