Los Angeles: Beyonce made history by breaking the record for the most Grammy wins at the 65th edition of Grammy Awards on Sunday.
The most nominated artist at this year’s ceremony, she took home her 32nd Grammy breaking the record with her win for the 2022 album ‘Renaissance’.
The late Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti, a long-time music director at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, previously held the record with his 31 wins from 74 nominations.
She won two awards with Best Dance/Electronic Recording for her song 'Break My Soul' and Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song 'Plastic Off the Sofa', both from ‘Renaissance’.
'Renaissance', which was released on July 29, 2022, is the seventh studio album by Beyonce. It's her first solo studio release since aLemonade' and is also the first installment of a trilogy project.
Beyonce wrote and produced the album with Nova Wav, The-Dream, Symbolyc One, A. G. Cook, Honey Dijon, Beam, Tricky Stewart, BloodPop, Skrillex, Hit-Boy, No I.D. and P2J. Beam, Grace Jones and Tems appear as guest vocalists on the album.
Upon its release, 'Renaissance' garnered the record for the most single-day streams for an album by a female artist on Spotify in 2022, with over 43 million streams, only to be later surpassed by Taylor Swift's 'Midnights'
Beyonce wasn't present at the ceremony to collect the award and her honours were accepted by the presenters.
In an emotional acceptance speech, Beyonce thanked the queer community for “inventing the genre” and their support for her. Before her win, the singer thanked her fans and collaborators in a lengthy Instagram post.
With 88 career nominations, Beyoncé’s wins also mark another significant achievement for the artist: The singer has at least one Grammy win for each of her solo albums.