Adèle picks up six Grammy awards

Published on Tuesday 14 February 2012 00:00

ADÈLE, who captured the world’s heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at the Grammy Awards, winning six trophies including the prestigious trio of record, song and album of the year.

The British singer, who also made a triumphant comeback from vocal cord surgery on the Grammy stage on Sunday night, wept as she won the night’s final award, album of the year, for 21.

It was last year’s top-selling album, with more than six million copies sold, and remains lodged at the No 1 spot on this year’s charts. Her victories tied her with Beyoncé as the most wins by a woman in one evening.

The celebration of Adèle, a big-voiced, soulful singer, came on a night where the Grammys marked the loss of one of music’s great female voices - and one of its most prized talents overall.

Whitney Houston died the night before the Grammys, casting a shadow over music’s biggest night. The 54th annual Grammy awards opened with a prayer and standing ovation to the singer, who herself won a clutch of six prestigious Recording Academy gongs over a turbulent career marred by spells of drug addiction.

Host LL Cool J said: “There is no way around this. We’ve had a death in our family, so at least for me, the only thing that seems right is to start with a prayer for our fallen sister, Whitney Houston.”

Later in the show, actress and singer Jennifer Hudson performed a tribute, singing the late star’s biggest hit, I Will Always Love You.

Dressed in black, she fought back tears as she sang, ending: “Whitney, we will always love you.”

When Tony Bennett won a Grammy for his duet with Amy Winehouse, he invited the late singer’s parents to join him on stage. “We shouldn’t be here. Our darling daughter should be here,” Winehouse’s father, Mitch, said.

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Skatedad

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 08:52 AM

Not bad for a "fat bird" Karl Lagerfeld.

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