Beyoncé finally wins the album of the year Grammy with “Cowboy Carter”

The wait was the most difficult part for Beyoncé fans, but Patience finally borne fruit when she marked a victory for the album of the year during the Grammys on Sunday evening, with “Cowboy Carter “Marking the first prize where four albums previously nominated in the category did not.

“I just feel very full and very honored. It’s been many years, ”said Beyoncé. “I just want to thank the Grammys, each singer-songwriter, each employee, each producer, for all the hard work,” she said, accepting. “I want to dedicate this to Miss (Linda) Martell, and I simply hope to continue to move forward, opening doors.”

She prefaced her acceptance speech by saying that she “would like to thank and recognize and rent all the firefighters for keeping us safe”, while she shared the scene with the group of first stakeholders who presented her final honor of the night.

“She had 99 nominations, and now an album victory of the year is one,” said host Trevor Noah after the victory, looking at Jay-Z when he noted that the record number of Beyoncé names entered this ceremony.

Although it is ultimately a multi-generes album, “Cowboy Carter” was a conceptual album to represent Beyoncé’s vision on the way country music has a large part of her roots in black music, and how black performers continue to make their way in this genre, including the guests of the stars on the album ranging from the newcomer Shaboozey to the pioneer of Black Country Linda Martell.

Beyoncé became the first black woman to win the album of the year since Lauryn Hill did it with “The Miséducation de Lauryn Hill” in 1999.

“Cowboy Carter” had been largely predicted as a winner of the album of the year by a majority of prognosticators – but nervously, given the thing that important albums like “Lemonade” had been in the past. The victory had been planned all the way back when the album was released last March, with Variety Asking in a title after its release: “Is” Cowboy Carter “by Beyoncé is an unstoppable favorite for the album of the Grammy year?” The cultural import of the album has proven to be indomitable – as well as the factor of people who love it – even against a range of one of the strongest areas in the category for years.

Nevertheless, Beyoncé was considered to be confronted with strong competition from the albums of the Grammy favorite of the year, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift, not to mention the hottest new arrivals of the year, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter , and it girl charli cx. Jacob Necklier and Andre 3000 completed the eight locations of the division as the longest shots.

It was Beyoncé’s second round on the podium on Sunday evening. Earlier in television at prospective hours, she had received the trophy from the Country album of the year by presenter Taylor Swift. During the first first ceremony, she also won a third prize, for the best duo / country group performance, honoring her duet with Miley Cyrus, “II Most Wanted”.

Beyoncé entered the ceremony as the most nominated artist of all time and the most rewarded artist in the history of the Grammy, but the fans deplored that she had a story of not going into the three main categories of all kinds. Although she won the song of the year in the past, she had never won the album of the year or the record of the year before Sunday evening.

It was her album refused of the year in the past that has particularly stuck in fans – and, vocally, her husband Jay -Z. When “Lemonade” lost against what was considered an album of less Adele, this singer apologized to Beyoncé that evening for having beat him, saying that it was Bey who really deserved the price.