Beyonce makes history at Grammys
BEYONCE HAS become the most decorated female act in Grammy history, while Taylor Swift secured the ceremony’s biggest prize in a triumphant night for women.
The awards ceremony saw Beyonce pick up four gongs, bringing her to a total of 28 career wins – overtaking country star Alison Krauss.
Swift won album of the year for her towering lockdown effort, Folklore, while British star Dua
Lipa, Megan Thee Stallion and Billie Eilish were also among the big winners.
Beyonce’s wins on the night included best R&B performance, rap performance, rap song and music video. She hugged husband Jay-Z before delivering an emotional acceptance speech.
She told the socially distanced audience: “This is so overwhelming. I have been working my whole life, since nine years old and I can’t believe this happened, it’s such a magical night. Thank you so much.”
She paid tribute to her three children, including oldest daughter Blue Ivy, nine, who won a Grammy earlier in the day.
After winning album of the year – the biggest award of the night – for Folklore, Swift thanked her collaborators including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and British actor Joe Alwyn, her boyfriend of five years.
The Grammys – delayed by the pandemic from January – were hosted by Trevor Noah in Los Angeles.
Eilish, 19, who dominated last year’s ceremony, won record of the year for Everything I Wanted. A tearful Megan Thee Stallion won best new artist, capping a meteoric rise to the top of rap music.
And London-born Lipa, 25, won the prize for Best Pop Vocal Album for 2020’s acclaimed Future
COMMUNITY FUN is on its way to foodbanks from a vintage icecream van.
A number of community groups in east Leeds joined forces at the beginning of the first lockdown to help local residents with tasks like shopping, picking up prescriptions, delivering food parcels to hosting outdoor yoga and sports training sessions.
The organisations – which includes LS14 Trust, Chapel
FM Arts Centre, Fall into Place Theatre, Leeds Community Spaces, Seacroft Community on Top (SCOT), Seacroft Friends & Neighbours and United Response – have vowed to carry on the collaboration in a 1981 Ford van.
Some ideas already include playing music from the van and hosting sports activities at green spaces around Seacroft and Killingbeck, serving cream teas to elderly residents and, of course, serving ice-cream as a thank you to local people who have gone above and beyond to help their communities during the COVID crisis.
Howard Bradley from the LS14 Trust said: “Every day we come together on a Zoom call to see what’s going on and what we need to do today.”
He said the community spirit is helping to make the areas “even better”.