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Kacey Musgraves And Childish Gambino Win Top Awards At 2019 Grammys

No single artist dominated, but over the course of a night in which a handful of artists won major awards, a thread became clear: The Academy was attempting to make amends for past mistakes.
Kacey Musgraves (speaking at microphone) won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year for <em>Golden Hour</em>.

On Sunday night, the 61st Grammy Awards telecast did its best to balance several requirements — making amends to an entire gender, widening its palette of winners and honorees and doing its best to award those who are affecting the mainstream now, not five years ago. Within the narrow lens of prime time awards shows, it seemed to make some progress on each count, without drifting too far from its comfort zone.

Kacey Musgraves won the night's top honor, Album of the Year — her fourth trophy of the evening — for (which also won Country Album of Year). Childish Gambino won Record and

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