In the years prior, Lalah won Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Jesus Children” with Robert Glasper Experiment & Malcolm-Jamal Warner in 2015 and Best R&B Performance for “Something” with Snarky Puppy in 2014.

2. The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards) doesn’t view R&B as a viable enough genre to have most of it’s R&B categories make it onto the ‘big stage’ come live TV broadcast time. Therefore, the R&B categories that Lalah won were not televised on the Grammy Awards live broadcast. However, for the small amount of people who knew about it- they were able to watch a live stream of the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Grammys.com. That was the pre-Grammy Awards ceremony where Lalah and others accepted their awards. But again, it would have been great if more of the general population actually knew that the live stream existed though.

Lalah is one of my favorite R&B singers. She has a way of doing some sort of vocal acrobatics with her voice and her runs are unmatched. It’s beautiful to see her getting accolades for her accomplishments. HOWEVER, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: a trophy shouldn’t define an artist, their body of work should. Lalah’s body of work has defined her as an artist and even though her fans may not have known about the un-televised trophies she just won, that does not determine how much they dig her musical art, long before the trophies were sitting on her mantlepiece. Keep doing your thang Ms. Hathaway!

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