The 66th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony was held Sunday (Feb. 4) at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California.
At the ceremony, hosted by Justin Tranter, many of the award winners were announced ahead of the televised Grammy ceremony, including the majority of the categories in the R&B field.
Four of the five categories in the R&B field were announced: Best R&B Performance, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Album, and Best Progressive Album. Best R&B Song was announced at the televised ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah, at Crypto.com Arena.
“The Premiere Ceremony is the most incredible lead-up to Music’s Biggest Night®,” said Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “With an amazing line-up of presenters and performers, we’ll reveal and celebrate the winners of more than 80 Categories, spanning the diverse genres and crafts that have contributed to such a spectacular year in music.”
See the winners below.
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Ghost In The Machine” – SZA featuring Phoebe Bridgers
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
JAGUAR II – John Kercy, Kyle Mann, Victoria Monét, Patrizio “Teezio” Pigliapoco, Neal H Pogue & Todd Robinson, engineers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer (Victoria Monét)
Best Immersive Audio Album
For vocal or instrumental albums in any genre. Must be commercially released for physical sale or on an eligible streaming or download service and must provide a new immersive mix of four or more channels. Award to the immersive mix engineer, immersive producer (if any) and immersive mastering engineer (if any)
The Diary Of Alicia Keys – George Massenburg & Eric Schilling, immersive mix engineers; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Alicia Keys & Ann Mincieli, immersive producers (Alicia Keys)
Best Traditional R&B Performance
For new vocal or instrumental traditional R&B recordings.
Simple
Babyface Featuring Coco Jones
Lucky
Kenyon Dixon
Hollywood
Victoria Monét Featuring Earth, Wind & Fire & Hazel Monét
Good Morning **WINNER**
PJ Morton Featuring Susan Carol
Love Language
SZA
Best R&B Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new R&B recordings.
Girls Night Out
Babyface
What I Didn’t Tell You (Deluxe)
Coco Jones
Special Occasion
Emily King
JAGUAR II **WINNER**
Victoria Monét
CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP
Summer Walker
Best R&B Performance
For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.
Summer Too Hot
Chris Brown
Back To Love
Robert Glasper Featuring SiR & Alex Isley
ICU **WINNER**
Coco Jones
How Does It Make You Feel
Victoria Monét
Kill Bill
SZA
Best Progressive R&B Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded progressive vocal tracks derivative of R&B.
Since I Have A Lover
6LACK
The Love Album: Off The Grid
Diddy
Nova
Terrace Martin And James Fauntleroy
The Age Of Pleasure
Janelle Monáe
SOS **WINNER**
SZA
Best R&B Song
A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
Angel
Halle Bailey, Theron Feemster & Coleridge Tillman, songwriters (Halle)
Back To Love
Darryl Andrew Farris, Robert Glasper & Alexandra Isley, songwriters (Robert Glasper Featuring SiR & Alex Isley)
ICU
Darhyl Camper Jr., Courtney Jones, Raymond Komba & Roy Keisha Rockette, songwriters (Coco Jones)
On My Mama
Dernst Emile II, Jeff Gitelman, Victoria Monét, Kyla Moscovich, Jamil Pierre & Charles Williams, songwriters (Victoria Monét)
Snooze **WINNER**
Kenny B. Edmonds, Blair Ferguson, Khris Riddick-Tynes, Solána Rowe & Leon Thomas, songwriters (SZA)
Best New Artist
This category recognizes an artist whose eligibility-year release(s) achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape.
Gracie Abrams
Fred again..
Ice Spice
Jelly Roll
Coco Jones
Noah Kahan
Victoria Monét **WINNER**
The War and Treaty
Best African Music Performance
Water – Tyla
See the full list of winners here.
