“Thank you so much. I’m trying not to be too emotional,” she said after her fourth win of the evening,for best dance/electronic album,thanking her husband Jay-Z and her three young children who she said were watching from home.
She also thanked her late Uncle Johnny,who she said had introduced her to much of the music whichRenaissance,a collection of songs that traversed the history of Black and queer club music,paid homage to.
“I’d like to thank the queer community for your love and for inventing this genre,” she said. “God bless you.”
The 65th Grammy Awards were a history making night,with German singer-songwriter Kim Petras becoming the first transgender woman to win in best pop duo/group performance for her songUnholywith non-binary artist Sam Smith.
Petras thanked “all the incredible transgender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me” along with her mother who “believed that I was a girl.”