Taylor Swift wins Album of The Year for 1989

Taylor Swift has taken home the 2016 award for Album of The Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards for her 2014 album 1989. Album of The Year is the most prestigious award in the music industry, and it’s Taylor’s second Album of the Year win (she first won in 2010 for Fearless.)  Swift, who also opened the night’s award ceremony with a performance of the 1989 track “Out of the Woods” accepted the award. Swift pointed out in her speech that she is the first woman to win album of the year twice.

Kendrick Lamar won the most awards. The 28-year-old rap artist scooped five prizes: best rap song, best rap performance, best rap/sung collaboration, best music video and best rap album. Lamar had received 11 nominations for this year’s Grammys, beating Eminem’s record as the rapper with the most nominations in a single night, and coming in second only to Michael Jackson for the most nominations ever.

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar and documentary director Asif Kapadia were the two Indian names in the race to win Grammy 2016. While Amy director picked up the golden gramophone for his documentary on the singer Amy Winehouse, Anoushka Shankar lost in the World music section. Kapadia, the British filmmaker who has Indian roots on Sunday even won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) honour for the movie.

The Best Intrumental Composition award went to “The Afro Latin Jazz Suite”, composed by Arturo O’Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, featuring Indian artiste Rudresh Mahanthappa.

Sitar player Anoushka Shankar pays tribute to her father, Ravi Shankar