Women seize the Grammys spotlight, and big prizes
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Feb 11, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - As the host of the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Alicia Keys did a bit in which she recalled one of her previous experiences at music's most prestigious awards show. The year was 2005, she said, and the R&B singer badly wanted to win song of the year for her tune "If I Ain't Got You."
Well, that didn't happen.
But evidently the guy who won that night, John Mayer, shared Keys' opinion that she deserved the award - so he broke his Grammy into two pieces and gave her one, which she pulled out all these years later to show the audience.
Nobody was asking women to settle for half
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