Australians among 2015 Grammy winners
WhileIggy Azalea andSia weren't honoured at the 57th annual Grammy Awards,a handful of Australians were.
M-Phazes (aka Mark Landon, pictured)was an early winner today at Los Angeles' Staples Center; the Queensland producer’s work on Eminem’sThe Marshall Mathers LP2 was recognised with the album picking up the Grammy for Best Rap Album and beating fellow Australian Iggy Azalea. In the 20 years of the award’s existence, Eminem has taken the Grammy home six times.
Azalea also lost out on the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performancefor her track Fancy with Charli XCX – the Grammy went to A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera for Say Something – as well as Best New Artist, which was won by 22-year-old Brit Sam Smith. Smith also took out the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album, for his ARIA #1 In The Lonely Hour.
Melbourne-based, South African-born composer Wouter Kellerman won the Grammy for Best New Age Album Of The Year for his collaboration with composer and producer Ricky Kej, Winds Of Samsara. NSW-based composer Fiona Joy-Hawkins wrote the track Grace, which appears on the album.
Another Australian tie-in taking home an early Grammy was the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director David Robertson who conducted The St Louis Symphony Orchestrafor American composer John Adams’City Noir. The piece wonBest Orchestral Performance.
Our own AC/DC kicked off the awards, performing Highway to Hell. Sia, Katy Perry, Madonna, and Rihanna with Paul McCartney and Kanye West also performed.
Sia was up against Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor and Hozier for theRecord of the Year Grammy but it was the night's golden boy Sam Smith who took out the honour, for his global #1 Stay With Me.
The Grammys were broadcast in Australia by Foxtel.
See below for the full winner’s list:
Album of the Year
Beck –Morning Phase
Best Country Album
Miranda Lambert–Platinum
Best R&B Performance:
Beyoncé ft. Jay Z –Drunk In Love
Best Rock Album
Beck –Morning Phase
Best Pop Vocal Album
Sam Smith –In The Lonely Hour
Best New Artist
Sam Smith
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera – Say Something
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga –Cheek To Cheek
Best Rock Performance
Jack White – Lazaretto
Best Metal Performance
Tenacious D – The Last In Line
Best Rock Song
Paramore – Ain't It Fun Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters
Best Alternative Rock Album
St. Vincent –St. Vincent
Best Rap Performance
Kendrick Lamar – I
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Eminem Featuring Rihanna – The Monster
Best Rap Song
Kendrick Lamar – I
K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters
Best Rap Album
Eminem –The Marshall Mathers LP2
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Jesus Children
Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Best R&B Song
Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z – Drunk In Love
Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyoncé Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Pharrell Williams –Girl
Best R&B Album
Toni Braxton & Babyface –Love, Marriage & Divorce
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer –Bass & Mandolin
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Aphex Twin –Syro
Best Dance Recording
Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne –Rather Be
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, composer
Best Song Written for Visual Media
Let It Go fromFrozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters (Idina Menzel)
Best Country Solo Performance
Carrie Underwood – Something In The Water
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
The Band Perry – Gentle On My Mind
Best Country Song
I'm Not Gonna Miss You
Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters (Glen Campbell)
Best Bluegrass Album
The Earls Of Leicester –The Earls Of Leicester
Best American Roots Performance
Rosanne Cash – A Feather's Not A Bird
Best American Roots Song
Rosanne Cash – A Feather's Not A Bird
Best Americana Album
Rosanne Cash –The River & The Thread
Best Folk Album
Old Crow Medicine Show –Remedy
Best Music Video
Pharrell Williams – Happy
Best Music Film
20 Feet From Stardom
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill
Morgan Neville, video director; Gil Friesen & Caitrin Rogers, video producers
We Are From LA, video director; Kathleen Heffernan, Solal Micenmacher, Jett Steiger, video producers
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Max Martin
Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj)
Break Free (Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd)
Dark Horse (Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J)
Problem (Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea)
Shake It Off (Taylor Swift)
Unconditionally (Katy Perry)
Best Instrumental Composition
John Williams – The Book Thief
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Pentatonix –Daft Punk
Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals
Billy Childs –New York Tendaberry
Best Recording Package
Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors
Pearl Jam –Lightning Bolt
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
Best Album Notes
Ashley Kahn
John Coltrane –Offering: Live At Temple University
Best Historical Album
Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer
Hank Williams –The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Beck –Morning Phase
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer
John Legend – All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)
Best Surround Sound Album
Beyoncé –Beyoncé
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyoncé Knowles, surround producer
Best Regional Roots Music Album
Jo-El Sonnier –The Legacy
Best Reggae Album
Ziggy Marley –Fly Rasta
Best World Music Album
Angelique Kidjo –Eve
Best Children's Album
Neela Vaswani –I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)
Best Musical Theatre Album
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)
Best Blues Album
Johnny Winter –Step Back
Best Spoken Word Album
Joan Rivers –Diary Of A Mad Diva
Best Comedy Album
"Weird Al" Yankovic –Mandatory Fun
Best New Age Album
Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman –Winds Of Samsara
Best Improved Jazz Solo
Chick Corea –Fingerprints
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Dianne Reeves –Beautiful Life
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Chick Corea Trio –Trilogy
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band –Life In The Bubble
Best Latin Jazz Album
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra –The Offense Of The Drum