Tems, a gifted singer, broke a record for Nigerian music at the 65th annual Grammy Awards in 2023.
Tems
Tems achieved and set another record for Nigerian music at the 65th edition of the Grammy awards 2023 as she beat top acts such as to bag her first grammy award and also become the first female Nigerian artist to win a Grammy award.
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The singer, who had bagged 3 nominations at the Grammy awards 2023 with her immense contribution on bagged a Grammy award in the ‘Best Melodic Rap Performance’ category for her vocal and writing contribution on the smashing hit ‘Wait For U’ by Future featuring Drake and herself, making it her first Grammy award win after four nominations.
Best Melodic Rap Performance
DJ Khaled Featuring Future & SZA – Beautiful WINNER: Future Featuring Drake & Tems – Wait for U Jack Harlow – First Class Kendrick Lamar Featuring Blxst & Amanda Reifer – Die Hard Latto – Big Energy (Live)
Here is the complete list of winners from the 65th Grammy Awards, which were held in the United States on Sunday, February 5, 2023.
The 65th edition of the Grammy Awards 2023, which was held in the early hours of Monday, the 6th of February 2023, saw some of the biggest names in the music industry pick up notable awards, which is why we have compiled a full list of the winners at the award ceremony.
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A few categories were confirmed at the premiere ceremony of the award show today, Sunday, February 5, 2023.
Here are the winners:
Best Immersive Audio Album
Anita Brevik, Nidarosdomens Jentekor & Trondheimsolistene – Tuvayhun — Beatitudes for a Wounded World The Chainsmokers – Memories…Do Not Open Christina Aguilera – Aguilera Jane Ira Bloom – Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1 WINNER: Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej – Divine Tides
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Baynk – Adolescence Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century WINNER: Harry Styles – Harry’s House Robert Glasper – Black Radio III Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Best Remixed Recording
Beyoncé – Break My Soul (Terry Hunter Remix) Ellie Goulding – Easy Lover (Four Tet Remix) The Knocks & Dragonette – Slow Song (Paul Woolford Remix) WINNER: Lizzo – About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Remix) Wet Leg – Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix)
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
WINNER: Beyoncé – Break My Soul Bonobo – Rosewood David Guetta & Bebe Rexha – I’m Good (Blue) Diplo & Miguel – Don’t Forget My Love Kaytranada Featuring H.E.R. – Intimidated Rüfüs Du Sol – On My Knees
Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
Austin Wintory – Aliens: Fireteam Elite Bear McCreary – Call of Duty®: Vanguard Christopher Tin – Old World Richard Jacques – Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy WINNER: Stephanie Economou – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)
WINNER: Germaine Franco – Encanto Hans Zimmer – No Time to Die Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog Michael Giacchino – The Batman Nicholas Britell – Succession: Season 3
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Various Artists – Elvis WINNER: Various Artists – Encanto Various Artists – Stranger Things: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series, Season 4 Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga & Hans Zimmer – Top Gun: Maverick Various Artists – West Side Story
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet – 2 + 2 = 5 (Arr. Nathan Schram) Cécile McLorin Salvant – Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying WINNER: Christine McVie – Songbird (Orchestral Version) Jacob Collier Featuring Lizzy McAlpine & John Mayer – Never Gonna Be Alone Louis Cole – Let It Happen
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Armand Hutton Featuring Terrell Hunt & Just 6 – As Days Go By (An Arrangement of the Family Matters Theme Song) Danny Elfman – Main Titles Kings Return – How Deep Is Your Love WINNER: Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley & The SWR Big Band Featuring Martin Auer – Scrapple From the Apple Remy Le Boeuf – Minnesota, WI
Best Instrumental Composition
Danilo Pérez Featuring The Global Messengers – Fronteras (Borders) Suite: Al-Musafir Blues WINNER: Geoffrey Keezer – Refuge Miguel Zenón, José Antonio Zayas Cabán, Ryan Smith & Casey Rafn – El País Invisible Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar – African Tales Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar – Snapshots
Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album
Cheryl B. Engelhardt – The Passenger Madi Das, Dave Stringer & Bhakti Without Borders – Mantra Americana WINNER: Mystic Mirror – White Sun Paul Avgerinos – Joy Will Ackerman – Positano Songs
Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Jamie Foxx – Act Like You Got Some Sense Lin-Manuel Miranda – Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World Mel Brooks – All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business Questlove – Music Is History WINNER: Viola Davis – Finding Me
Best Children’s Music Album
WINNER: Alphabet Rockers – The Movement Divinity Roxx – Ready Set Go! Justin Roberts – Space Cadet Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band – Los Fabulosos Wendy and DB – Into the Little Blue House
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Diana Ross – Thank You Kelly Clarkson – When Christmas Comes Around… WINNER: Michael Bublé – Higher Norah Jones – I Dream of Christmas (Extended) Pentatonix – Evergreen
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
John Beasley, Magnus Lindgren & SWR Big Band – Bird Lives Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows – Architecture of Storms Ron Carter & The Jazzaar Festival Big Band Directed by Christian Jacob – Remembering Bob Freedman Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber & WDR Big Band Conducted by Michael Abene – Center Stage WINNER: Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson & Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra – Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – LongGone Peter Erskine Trio – Live in Italy WINNER: Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton & Matthew Stevens – New Standards, Vol. 1 Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding – Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion
Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Baylor Project – The Evening : Live At Apparatus Carmen Lundy – Fade to Black Cécile McLorin Salvant – Ghost Song The Manhattan Transfer & The WDR Funkhausorchester – Fifty WINNER: Samara Joy – Linger Awhile
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Ambrose Akinmusire – Rounds (Live) Gerald Albright – Keep Holding On John Beasley – Cherokee/Koko Marcus Baylor – Call of the Drum Melissa Aldana – Falling WINNER: Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese – Endangered Species
Best Progressive R&B Album
Cory Henry – Operation Funk Moonchild – Starfuit WINNER: Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights Tank and the Bangas – Red Balloon Terrace Martin – Drones
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Adam Blackstone Featuring Jazmine Sullivan – ’Round Midnight Babyface Featuring Ella Mai – Keeps on Fallin’ WINNER: Beyoncé – Plastic Off the Sofa Mary J. Blige – Good Morning Gorgeous Snoh Aalegra – Do 4 Love
Best R&B Performance
Beyoncé – Virgo’s Groove Jazmine Sullivan – Hurt Me So Good Lucky Daye – Over Mary J. Blige Featuring Anderson .Paak – Here With Me WINNER: Muni Long – Hrs & Hrs
Best Melodic Rap Performance
DJ Khaled Featuring Future & SZA – Beautiful WINNER: Future Featuring Drake & Tems – Wait for U Jack Harlow – First Class Kendrick Lamar Featuring Blxst & Amanda Reifer – Die Hard Latto – Big Energy (Live)
Best Rap Performance
DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy – God Did Doja Cat – Vegas Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug – Pushin P Hitkidd & Glorilla – F.N.F. (Let’s Go) WINNER: Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 5
Best R&B Album
Chris Brown – Breezy (Deluxe) Lucky Daye – Candy Drip Mary J. Blige – Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe) PJ Morton – Watch the Sun WINNER: Robert Glasper – Black Radio III
Best Rock Song
WINNER: Brandi Carlile – Broken Horses Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck – Patient Number 9 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer Turnstile – Blackout The War on Drugs – Harmonia’s Dream
Best Metal Performance
Ghost – Call Me Little Sunshine Megadeth – We’ll Be Back Muse – Kill or Be Killed WINNER: Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Tony Iommi – Degradation Rules Turnstile – Blackout
Best Rock Performance
Beck – Old Man The Black Keys – Wild Child WINNER: Brandi Carlile – Broken Horses Bryan Adams – So Happy It Hurts Idles – Crawl! Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck – Patient Number 9 Turnstile – Holiday
Best Rap Song
DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy – God Did Future Featuring Drake & Tems – Wait for U Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug – Pushin P Jack Harlow Featuring Drake – Churchill Downs WINNER: Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 5
Best Rock Album
The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If Idles – Crawler Machine Gun Kelly – Mainstream Sellout WINNER: Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa
Best Rock Song
WINNER: Brandi Carlile – Broken Horses Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck – Patient Number 9 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer Turnstile – Blackout The War on Drugs – Harmonia’s Dream
Best Alternative Music Album
Arcade Fire – WE Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Björk – Fossora WINNER: Wet Leg – Wet Leg Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down
Best Alternative Music Performance
Arctic Monkeys – There’d Better Be a Mirrorball Big Thief – Certainty Florence and the Machine – King WINNER: Wet Leg – Chaise Longue Yeah Yeah Yeahs Featuring Perfume Genius – Spitting Off the Edge of the World
Best Global Music Performance
Arooj Aftab & Anoushka Shankar – Udhero Na Burna Boy – Last Last Matt B & Eddy Kenzo – Gimme Love Rocky Dawuni Featuring Blvk H3ro – Neva Bow Down WINNER: Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini & Nomcebo Zikode – Bayethe
Best Reggae Album
WINNER: Kabaka Pyramid – The Kalling Koffee – Gifted Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm Sean Paul – Scorcha Shaggy – Com Fly Wid Mi
Best Global Music Album
Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf – Queen of Sheba Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley Featuring Manu Delago – Between Us… (Live) Berklee Indian Ensemble – Shuruaat Burna Boy – Love, Damini WINNER: Masa Takumi – Sakura
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Brothers Osborne – Midnight Rider’s Prayer WINNER: Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde – Never Wanted to Be That Girl Ingrid Andress & Sam Hunt – Wishful Drinking Luke Combs & Miranda Lambert – Outrunnin’ Your Memory Reba McEntire & Dolly Parton – Does He Love You (Revisited) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Going Where the Lonely Go
Best Country Solo Performance
Kelsea Ballerini – Heartfirst Maren Morris – Circles Around This Town Miranda Lambert – In His Arms WINNER: Willie Nelson – Live Forever Zach Bryan – Something in the Orange
Best Historical Album
Blondie – Against the Odds: 1974 – 1982 Doc Watson – Life’s Work: A Retrospective Freestyle Fellowship – To Whom It May Concern… Glenn Gould – The Goldberg Variations: The Complete Unreleased 1981 Studio Sessions WINNER: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
Best Album Notes
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Andy Irvine / Paul Brady Astor Piazzolla – The American Clavé Recordings Doc Watson – Life’s Work: A Retrospective Harry Partch – Harry Partch, 1942 WINNER: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Black Pumas – Black Pumas (Collector’s Edition Box Set) Danny Elfman – Big Mess WINNER: The Grateful Dead – In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81, ’82, ’83 They Might Be Giants – Book Various Artists – Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
Chiquis – Abeja Reina Christian Nodal – EP #1 Forajido Marco Antonio Solís – Qué Ganas de Verte (Deluxe) WINNER: Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por México – El Musical Los Tigres del Norte – La Reunión (Deluxe)
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Cimafunk – El Alimento Fito Paez – Los Años Salvajes Gaby Moreno – Alegoría Jorge Drexler – Tinta y Tiempo Mon Laferte – 1940 Carmen WINNER: Rosalía – Motomami
Best Latin Pop Album
Camilo – De Adentro Pa Afuera Christina Aguilera – Aguilera Fonseca – Viajante WINNER: Rubén Blades & Boca Livre – Pasieros Sebastián Yatra – Dharma +
Best Bluegrass Album
The Del McCoury Band – Almost Proud The Infamous Stringdusters – Toward the Fray WINNER: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – Crooked Tree Peter Rowan – Calling You From My Mountain Yonder Mountain String Band – Get Yourself Outside
Best Country Song
WINNER: Cody Johnson – ’Til You Can’t Luke Combs – Doin’ This Maren Morris – Circles Around This Town Miranda Lambert – If I Was a Cowboy Taylor Swift – I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault) Willie Nelson – I’ll Love You Till the Day I Die
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Ben Harper – Bloodline Maintenance WINNER: Edgar Winter – Brother Johnny Eric Gales – Crown North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far
Best Traditional Blues Album
Buddy Guy – The Blues Don’t Lie Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son Gov’t Mule – Heavy Load Blues John Mayall – The Sun Is Shining Down WINNER: Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder – Get on Board
