Grammys 2019 LIVE: Childish Gambino, Cardi B, Kacey Musgraves take out awards - The Sydney Morning Herald

Big Grammys for Kacey Musgrave

By Nathanael Cooper

Kacey Musgrave arrived at the 61st Grammy Awards with two statues under her belt, both earned at the 2014 Grammy Awards.

Today she added another four to that collection, winning in every category she was nominated in.

Kacey Musgraves accepts her Grammy for Album of the Year.Credit:Invision

Along with Album of the Year, she also won Country Album of the Year for Golden Hour along with Best Country Song for Space Cowboy and Best Country Solo Performance for Butterflies.

As I mentioned early, she is due to tour here in May.

That's a wrap

By Nathanael Cooper

And with those two awards, the Grammys are over for another year.

Mercifully, they only ran 20 minutes over this year.

Childish Gambino winning record of the year for This Is America marks the first time that prize has gone to a rap song, making this year a bit of a correction year after significant rap albums and songs missing out in previous years.

And the winner is...

Album of the Year:

Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B

By The Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile

Scorpion — Drake

H.E.R. — H.E.R.

Beerbongs & Bentleys — Post Malone

Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe

Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves

Black Panther: The Album, Music From and Inspired By (Various Artists)

And the winner is...

Record of the Year:

I Like It — Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin

The Joke — Brandi Carlile

This Is America — Childish Gambino

God’s Plan — Drake

Shallow — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

All the Stars — Kendrick Lamar & SZA

Rockstar — Post Malone Featuring 21 Savage

The Middle — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Still waiting for the big ones

By Nathanael Cooper

There's only four minutes until the awards are meant to wrap up, and we still have Record of the Year, Album of the Year and a tribute to Aretha Franklin to go.

Who knows what other performances the Grammys have up their sleeves.

It's nearly 8.30 in Los Angeles, and 11.30 on the east coast. They need to wrap it up before everyone in New York goes to bed, so we should see them whipping through it from here.

And the winner is...

Best New Artist:

Chloe x Halle

Luke Combs

Greta Van Fleet

H.E.R.

Dua Lipa

Margo Price

Another Grammys first

Cardi B's win marks the first time a solo female artist has won best rap album.

Not bad for someone who first found fame on Youtube.

Not usually one to stay quiet, Cardi is struggling to find words as she accepts the award. When she finally figures out what to say she pays a touching tribute to her daughter. She fell pregnant when she was still recording Invasion of Privacy, the album she just won the award for.

Okurrr.

And the winner is....

Best Rap Album:

Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B

Swimming — Mac Miller

Victory Lap — Nipsey Hussle

Daytona — Pusha T

Astroworld — Travis Scott

Oh... another performance

By Nathanael Cooper

Brandi Carlile, who won a stack of awards in the pre-ceremony, is up to perform The Joke.

Back in 2008 the inimitable Bruce Elder did this incredible interview with her where she talks about finding early success when her song The Stroy was covered in the musical episode of Grey's Anatomy. Well worth a read: