55th Grammy Awards

While numerous past GRAMMY broadcasts have transformed into beautiful royal celebrations of craftsmen who delighted in overwhelming years (Michael Jackson's eight GRAMMYs in 1983, Santana's eight in 1999, Beyoncé's six in 2009, and Adele's six in 2011), the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards spread the riches among a harvest of more youthful specialists who set the stage for the century's second decade in music. 

Roots-impacted rockers the Black Keys won three honors in the Rock Field (and guitarist/artist Dan Auerbach included one more for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical). 

Rap stalwarts Jay-Z and Kanye West won three GRAMMYs every, just for their joint efforts on Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song victor "N****s In Paris" and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration champ "No Church In The Wild" (including Frank Ocean and The-Dream). 

At that point came more relative newcomers: Skrillex added three GRAMMYs to his three from a year ago; Gotye rode "Some individual That I Used To Know" (highlighting Kimbra), which turned into the most peculiar radio hit of 2012, to three recompenses, including Record Of The Year; Fun. won their initial two GRAMMYs for Song Of The Year for "We Are Young" (highlighting Janelle Monáe) and Best New Artist; and Mumford and Sons, one of the pioneers for the new flood of acoustic roots specialists, won Album Of The Year for Babel. 

A percentage of the triumphant craftsmen were so new, they surprised different victors. 

"Miguel, I don't know who the hellfire you are, yet we have to sing together," yelled Kelly Clarkson while gathering her Best Pop Vocal Album GRAMMY for Stronger, alluding to Miguel's brief moderate jam of his Best R&B Song victor "Enhance" (on which he cooperated with Wiz Khalifa). "That was the sexiest damn thing I've ever seen." 

It was more than a crisp breeze that blew over the 55th GRAMMYs, it was seemingly a wind of progress. 

Still, the broadcast remained music's greatest blend, with exhibitions that conveyed innumerous fixings to the stew, beginning with one that was a virtual stew all alone. With nose-thumbing jokesters, a wheelchair-bound Mephisto and unnerving puppeteers, Taylor Swift turned in the most undermining "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" ever. 

English vocalist/musician Ed Sheeran cooperated with the leader of his administration organization, Elton John, for a solid perusing of the previous' Song Of The Year-assigned "The A Team," the story of a destitute junkie. 

Fun. conveyed dramatization to "Continue," their melody of determination, as both their anthemic desire and a rainstorm of genuine water that splashed their set. 

Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley, met under a substantial blue tree for cozy two part harmonies of her "Over You" and his "Home." 

Mumford and Sons gave a shock to the group with their unendingly fiery "I Will Wait." The way they assaulted their acoustic guitars would have made Pete Townshend glad. 

Breaking a seven-year rest from unrecorded music execution, Justin Timberlake hit a sepia-conditioned stage for a smooth variety of his new "Suit and Tie" (on which he was joined by Jay-Z) and "Pusher Love Girl" from his 2013 collection, The 20/20 Experience. 

In another novel blending, Maroon 5 and Alicia Keys teamed for the previous' "Sunlight" and the last mentioned's "Young lady On Fire," both melodies that ignite with force and feeling. 

Rihanna was joined by Mikky Ekko for "Stay," a tune he co-composed and on which he is a highlighted vocalist. With Rihanna in a basic dark dress on a nitty gritty stage, the melody's message of energy over rationale bore through. 

The Black Keys squandered no time revving up "Forlorn Boy." The rocker, which owes an obligation to rockabilly, overwhelm rock and electric soul, was punctuated by the New Orleans piano of Best Blues Album GRAMMY champ Dr. John and a squeeze of Dixieland from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. 

Clarkson returned for a vocal salute to two monster female craftsmen, both of whom got Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2013. To begin with up was "Tennessee Waltz" out of appreciation for Patti Page, trailed by "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)," co-composed via Carole King. 

The tributes proceeded with a gesture to Bob Marley, who was the subject of the Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media-selected Marley. Two of the entertainers, similar to Marley, hail from tropical islands: Bruno Mars from Hawaii and Rihanna from Barbados. Additionally joining was Sting, whose music with the Police owed an obligation to reggae and ska. Mars started with his own "Bolted Out Of Heaven" trailed by the comparable sounding Police chestnut "Strolling On The Moon." Rihanna rose with Ziggy and Damian Marley for their dad's "Would You be able to Be Loved." 

The Lumineers played an abbreviated adaptation of their inevitable hit "Ho Hey" before presenting Jack White. The last played "Affection Interruption" with his everything female band the Peacocks. He then segued into the harder "Flexibility At 21" with male supporters the Buzzards. When he completed the tumult, he had tossed and ventured on his guitar, leaving a sonic buildup of rotting criticism. 

Seeker Hayes played a bit of his hit "Needed" solo on piano before bringing out kindred nation star Carrie Underwood for a stripped-down variant of her Best Country Solo Performance victor "Cleared Out." Underwood's striking vocals were coordinated by her swelling dress, which served as a projection screen to portray the misfortune of the melody. 

The 2013 In Memoriam portion was bookended by two huge tributes. The initially highlighted piano player Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and sax player Kenny Garrett respecting the late Dave Brubeck with the immortal, and time-testing, "Take Five" alongside "Blue Rondo À La Turk." 

Taking after the portion, a top pick cast including Zac Brown, T Bone Burnett, Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard, Elton John, Mumford and Sons, and Mavis Staples sang an abrasive "The Weight" out of appreciation for Levon Helm, who sang the first with the Band. 

Juanes added a verse of español to the procedures with an adoring acoustic Spanglish interpretation of Elton John's "Your Song," before presenting Frank Ocean. The primary Best Urban Contemporary Album champ sang his elegiac "Forrest Gump" sponsored by running-arrangement footage like the film of the same name. 

After the show's most solemn execution, the 55th GRAMMYs rode out on a burst of outdated rap vitality, with GRAMMY host LL Cool J cooperating with Chuck D, Travis Barker, Tom Morello, and DJ Z-Trip for his own "Whaddup" and a brief tribute to fallen Beastie Boy Adam Yauch with "No Sleep Till Brooklyn."