How the Grammys honored D'Angelo, Roberta Flack and Ozzy Osbourne

At this year’s Grammy ceremony, the Recording Academy called connected artists Post Malone, Lauryn Hill and Reba McEntire to grant the musicians who died past year.

The yearly In Memoriam conception paid tribute to artists similar Roberta Flack, D’Angelo and Ozzy Osbourne. From dense punk numbers to jazzy R&B ballads and solemn country-infused performances, the academy celebrated those who person shaped music, whether it’s connected the artistry extremity oregon the concern extremity of things.

It started disconnected with a candlelit tribute from McEntire, Brandy Clark and Lukas Nelson. The trio performed McEntire’s “Trailblazer.” McEntire mislaid her precocious stepson, endowment manager Brandon Blackstock, past year. As the show continued, images of radical similar Connie Francis, Roy Ayers, Joe Ely and Ace Frehley appeared connected the surface behind.

Then Post Malone, backed by Andrew Watt, Slash, Duff McKagan and Chad Smith — each artists who worked with Osbourne implicit the past fewer years covered Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” implicit with bursts of occurrence and endless guitar riffs. The camera continued to cookware implicit to teary-eyed Kelly and Sharon Osbourne, woman and girl of the Black Sabbath frontman, who attended the ceremony.

Then, it was Hill’s crook to wage tribute to the precocious R&B pioneer D’Angelo. Behind acheronian shades and covered successful diamonds, the vocalist started disconnected by saying, “Make clip for the radical you emotion portion you can.”

The vocalist was backed by a monolithic set and started to sing her ain way “Nothing Even Matters.” She was soon joined by musicians similar Lucky Daye, Leon Thomas and Jon Batiste. As they continued to blend the sounds of “Brown Sugar” and “Devil’s Pie,” the elephantine ensemble shifted gears to wage tribute to Flack.

Throughout the remainder of the segment, Hill acted arsenic a conductor, calling connected each instrumentalist to sing their parts. They were soon joined by Chaka Khan and John Legend, who sang, “Where Is the Love?” By the extremity of the performance, the setlist came backmost to the Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” The full stadium erupted successful applause, got connected their feet and started to creation on with everyone connected stage.

In betwixt the unrecorded performance, the academy besides showed video tributes for Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Sly Stone.