Grammys 2026: winners Dangerous Bunny and Olivia Dean share anti-ICE feedback on stage – reside! | Grammy awards 2026
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That is a wrap!
Adrian Horton
Properly, that was a much less charged affair than final yr, although nonetheless stuffed with emotional moments – one of the best new artist win for Olivia Dean, a shock pop solo efficiency win for Lola Younger, the star-studded tributes to D’Angelo and Ozzy Osbourne, and mainly the large album of the yr win for Dangerous Bunny, the primary majority Spanish-language album to take action.
The Puerto Rican celebrity was an affable, gracious presence all through the ceremony – his ongoing bit with Trevor Noah, attempting to get the singer who’s contractually barred from performing (as a result of Tremendous Bowl) to sing, was one of the best of a present that unfold the love round. The night time’s top-nominated artist, Kendrick Lamar, took dwelling 5 awards (two through the telecast), changing into the most-decorated rapper in Grammys historical past with 27 complete awards. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas, together with Grammys stalwart Woman Gaga, rounded out the televised award winners.
But it surely was Dangerous Bunny, normally so cool and picked up, being moved to tears by the large win, clearly processing the enormity of the second, that can stick to me. This present occurred throughout an especially intense time within the US, with widespread protest over the Trump administration’s brutal immigration crackdown, notably on Spanish audio system. And the violence was high of thoughts for a lot of winners, from Eilish to Dean and naturally Dangerous Bunny, who asserted: “ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re people and we’re Individuals.”
And with that, the Grammys are by means of. Thanks for sticking with us! We’ll see you subsequent yr. And for Dangerous Bunny followers – on to the Tremendous Bowl!
Adrian Horton
For a full run-down of this practically four-hour present, my colleague Benjamin Lee has the recap:
Benjamin Lee
A reminder of tonight’s huge winners right here:
Benjamin Lee
A reminder of a few of the anti-ICE, pro-immigration quotes of the night time:
Dangerous Bunny: “Earlier than I say because of God, I’m gonna say ICE out. We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens, we’re people and we’re Individuals … The one factor extra highly effective than hate is love so please we have to be totally different. If we battle, we have now to do it with love. We don’t hate them, we love our individuals, we love our households and that’s the way in which to do it, we love.”
Kehlani: “I needed to say fuck ICE. I feel everyone – we’re too highly effective of a bunch to all be in a room on the similar time and never make some sort of assertion in our nation, so it’s brainless to me.”
Billie Eilish: “Nobody is prohibited on stolen land. It’s actually onerous to know what to say or what to do proper now. … we have to hold preventing and talking up and protesting.”
Olivia Dean: “I’m up right here because the grand-daughter of an immigrant. I’m a product of bravery and I feel these individuals need to be celebrated.”
SZA: “Please don’t fall into despair … We are able to go on, we’d like one another … we’re not ruled by the federal government, we’re ruled by God.”
Gloria Estefan: “I don’t suppose anybody would say we wish a free-for-all on the border. However what is occurring is in no way criminals being arrested. These are folks that have households which have contributed to this nation for many years. Little youngsters – there’s a whole lot of kids in detention facilities … I hope that our authorities listens to our plea for humanity, which is the principle factor we’d like.”
Benjamin Lee
Probably the most thrilling, and certainly most costly, efficiency of the night time:
Benjamin Lee
Right here’s a glance again on the most putting outfits on the crimson carpet:
WINNER: Dangerous Bunny, Debí Tirar Más Fotos— album of the yr
Adrian Horton
Oh wow, I believed the momentum was with Kendrick Lamar however the night time’s greatest award does, certainly, go to the favourite: Dangerous Bunny, who was so overwhelmed that he sat in his chair, head in his arms, for a full ten seconds earlier than taking the stage.
I get it – his magnum opus, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, a vivid exploration of Latin music traditions made by returning to Puerto Rico, is the primary majority Spanish-language album to win this award, and I don’t must spell out the symbolism of that within the US proper now, when ICE is profiling individuals who converse Spanish.
Dangerous Bunny, fittingly, delivers the majority of his speech in Spanish (translation forthcoming). In English: “I wish to dedicate this award to all of the individuals who needed to depart their homeland, their nation, to observe their desires.” Arduous to not get emotional at that. What a option to head into the Tremendous Bowl subsequent Sunday!
Adrian Horton
Technically the present was supposed to finish at 8.30pm native time, so certainly this have to be the final or subsequent to final efficiency of the night time, and it’s a robust one: the brothers Gene and Terrence Thornton, aka Malice and Pusha T, of rap dup Clipse, together with their longtime good friend, fellow Virginia native and producer Pharrell, making it snow in LA.
WINNER: Kendrick Lamar with SZA, Luther – file of the yr
Adrian Horton
OK so Cher botched the winner envelope (lol) after which mentioned “Luther Vandross” (LOL) earlier than correcting herself to the actual winners … Kendrick Lamar and SZA for his or her music Luther, which is certainly a tribute to the late soul singer Luther Vandross.
“Let’s give a shout out to the late nice Luther Vandross,” joked producer Sounwave – besides it’s not a joke, as Lamar added that getting clearance from the Vandross property to pattern his music made him shed a tear. (He revered their request for no cursing.)
Added SZA, talking extra broadly: “Please don’t fall into despair. I do know it’s a scary time…we will go on, we’d like one another, we have to belief one another.”
And added Noah: “I like reside tv.”
Adrian Horton
The pinnacle of the Recording Academy, Harvey Mason Jr, got here out for his compulsory paean to the ability of music, however it turns right into a weird lifetime achievement celebration for the icon that’s Cher.
“It’s a superb factor that they did it now,” she joked earlier than rambling by means of an acceptance speech when she was possibly imagined to announce the nominees for file of the yr – how she was “both on the highest or the underside”, both “shedding or successful an Oscar”, within the “elephant’s graveyard” of Las Vegas and changing into the primary artist to make use of autotune (I’m going to belief her on that).
“By no means surrender in your dream it doesn’t matter what occurs. Dwell it, be it, and if it’s not occurring now, it would occur quickly,” she added earlier than leaving the stage … till Trevor Noah calls her again to learn out the nominees, eek.
Benjamin Lee
One of many extra enjoyable performances of the night time!
Benjamin Lee
A variety of swears lower out tonight however one obtained by means of! Enormous for Brits:
Adrian Horton
We’re deep within the in memoriam part now, with Ms Lauryn Hill (!) on stage to have fun the life and legacy of D’Angelo, beginning with their duet Nothing Even Issues.
Ms Hill then emcees a veritable who’s who of R&B stars in honor of each D’Angelo and the late Roberta Flack: Fortunate Daye (for D’Angelo observe Brown Sugar), Leon Thomas, Bilal (for a rousing rendition of Untitled (How Does It Really feel)), Leon Bridges, Jon Batiste, John Legend and Chaka Khan, to call just a few.
And for the exclamation level, she’s joined by Wyclef Jean on guitar, for each an authentic and Fugees model of Flack’s Killing Me Softly. Greatest consider everybody obtained on their toes for that one, a powerful finale to an extra-stacked tribute.
Benjamin Lee
Yet one more fiery speech tonight right here from Billie Eilish. Good luck topping all of this, Oscars:
hell sure to Billie Eilish’s Grammys speech: “Nobody is prohibited on stolen land.”
“It is actually onerous to know what to say and what to do proper now, and I really feel actually hopeful on this room and I really feel like we have to hold preventing and talking up and protesting. Our voices actually do… pic.twitter.com/83i0FEquIO
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) February 2, 2026
Adrian Horton
It’s time for the tributes: Bruce Springsteen for Brian Wilson, John Mayer for Bobby Weir and for the primary time ever on the Grammys (?!), Reba McEntire (together with Brandy Clark and Lukas Nelson), saluting a number of of these misplaced previously yr – together with her son (and Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband) Brandon Blackstock – together with her new music Trailblazer.
Man, I forgot we misplaced so many legends – now it’s Andrew Watt, Weapons N’ Roses’s Slash and Duff McKagan, the Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers’s Chad Smith and Put up Malone paying tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, amongst others.
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