Michelle Obama is now a Grammy winner.
Though she wasn’t on hand to accept the award at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Best Jazz Vocal Album winner Esperanza Spalding told the audience that she would “gladly accept on her behalf.”Obama was, however, at the 2019 Grammys, despite the lack of a nomination that year. She took the stage alongside Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Lopez to speak about the important role music has played in her life.
Obama is also the second member of her own family to nab the honor. But she’ll have to win one more time to catch up with her husband, former President Barack Obama. He walked away with awards in the same category twice before — in 2006, for the abridged reading of his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” and again in 2008, for “The Audacity of Hope.”
And there could be another award on the horizon for both of them next month at the Oscars — or at least
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