.Carrie Fisher and Rolling Stones win Grammy Awards
The late Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher and veteran rockers The Rolling Stones are among the first award winners at the Grammy Awards, which are currently taking place in New York.
Fisher, who passed away in December 2016, won a posthumous Best Spoken Word Album Grammy for the audio book of her bestseller Princess Diarist.
The Stones picked up a Grammy Award for traditional blues album for their covers Blue & Lonesome. They previously won an album of the year Grammy for Some Girls in 1978.
Fisher beat Bruce Springsteen's audiobook of his autobiography Born To Runand Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo.
Leonard Cohen has also posthumously won a Grammy Award for rock performance for his album You Want it Darker. The singer triumphed over late Sound\garden front man Chris Cornell
Kendrick Lamar, who is likely to be the big winner tonight, and Bruno Mars also picked up early Grammy awards on Sunday in ceremonies ahead of the three-hour televised show celebrating the best in music.
Lamar's Humble.won best music video, beating rapper Jay-Z, while Mars scored for best engineered album with 24K Magic as celebrities began their way down the red carpet in New York for the main part of the show.
Lamar's Humble.won best music video, beating rapper Jay-Z, while Mars scored for best engineered album with 24K Magic as celebrities began their way down the red carpet in New York for the main part of the show.
Country singer Reba McEntire, songwriter Diane Warren and Americana music band The Mavericks were among those wearing white roses as a symbol of solidarity with victims of sexual harassment, as the Time's Up movement spreads from Hollywood to the music industry.
Lamar is expected to open Sunday's show which will also feature live performances by Lady Gaga, U2, Cardi B, Pink, Miley Cyrus, Sting, Elton John, Sam Smith and many others.
Jay-Z has a leading eight nominations at this year's Grammys, mostly from his soul-baring 4:44 album. He is competing against Lamar, Mars, Childish Gambino and New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Lorde for album of the year in a test of whether hip-hop can break a 14-year dry spell and win that top prize.
Kesha, a best pop vocal album nominee who has been battling her former record producer Dr. Luke for years in U.S. courts over allegations of emotional and sexual abuse, is expected to perform her emotional single Praying with Cyndi Lauper, Julia Michaels and a full choir.
Jay-Z has a leading eight nominations at this year's Grammys, mostly from his soul-baring 4:44 album. He is competing against Lamar, Mars, Childish Gambino and New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Lorde for album of the year in a test of whether hip-hop can break a 14-year dry spell and win that top prize.
Kesha, a best pop vocal album nominee who has been battling her former record producer Dr. Luke for years in U.S. courts over allegations of emotional and sexual abuse, is expected to perform her emotional single Praying with Cyndi Lauper, Julia Michaels and a full choir.
Dr. Luke has repeatedly denied Kesha's allegations.
"i'm so proud and nervous and overwhelmed to be performingit at the grammys on sunday, and if you need it i hope this songfinds you," Kesha tweeted on Saturday.
Mars, Jay-Z, Lamar and Gambino are also nominated for record of the year but so too is Latin dance hit Despacito by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and featuring Justin Bieber.
"i'm so proud and nervous and overwhelmed to be performingit at the grammys on sunday, and if you need it i hope this songfinds you," Kesha tweeted on Saturday.
Mars, Jay-Z, Lamar and Gambino are also nominated for record of the year but so too is Latin dance hit Despacito by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and featuring Justin Bieber.
The single last summer broke records as the most-streamed global track of all time, with more than 4.6 billion plays across leading platforms.Ross Scarano, vice president of content at Billboard magazine, gave Despacito the edge.
"It appealed to a lot of people. It also speaks to the more global sound of pop this year, the emphasis on Latin music," Scarano told Reuters.
"It appealed to a lot of people. It also speaks to the more global sound of pop this year, the emphasis on Latin music," Scarano told Reuters.
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