And while the Grammy victor has yet to see if his hot “Earned It” track will take home an Oscar this month, it did earn a Grammy for R&B Performance.
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Tesfaye’s Beauty Behind the Madness won a Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album and is nominated for Album of the Year. And tonight, The Weeknd’s Grammys performance totally took the cake.
Adele was quick to jump to her feet with a standing ovation, clearly thinking he earned it.
Canadians have nabbed a total of five Grammys so far. He won best rap album for To Pimp a Butterfly, best rap performance and best rap song for “Alright” and best rap/sung collaboration for “These Walls” featuring Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat.
He shared the best dance recording honour with Skrillex and Diplo for the collaboration “Where Are U Now”.
Three other Canadians marked their first Grammy wins.
Toronto musicians may not have picked up any prizes during the televised Grammy Awards show last night, but The Weeknd did snag two awards yesterday – his first two ever. The tapes were sent to Toronto for restoration and released a year ago.
“This is a gift that everybody buys for their father”, Moore said. It was the first time his music made it onto the list this high.
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Having bagged nominations at the Grammys, the Academy Awards and the Brit Awards, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye better known as The Weeknd, is a name that in the recent past has become synonymous with the R&B genre of music.
