Alicia Keys' Grammys Tribute Goes from Somber to Sweet: 'We Gotta Make This a Celebration' for Kobe Bryant
, in a helicopter crash earlier on Sunday, for a second time at the beginning of the show.
Addressing the sober feelings of the Grammys audience, Keys, 39, said that they needed to celebrate for the late basketball legend. “I’m looking forward to being here together with all of us, again celebrating this music because I know how much Kobe loved music,” she said. “I know how much he loved music, so we gotta make this a celebration in his honor. He would want us to keep the vibrations high.”Keys, playing the piano, then dove into a lighthearted song about the nominees in the room, a riff on Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi’s song “Someone You Loved.”took us all on safari.
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