In classical music, violist Yongjae O’Neill won the Grammy Award
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With a performance held in a tall building in Yeouido, BTS connected Seoul and Los Angeles today (15th). Even though the Prime Minister had to give way to’Lady Gaga’ and’Ariana Grande’, the K-pop singer’s first Grammy stage again made a new history.
This is Sujin Lee, reporter.
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The performance begins in front of the giant Grammy-symbolic gramophone and continues over the skyscrapers that illuminate the night of the Han River.
BTS, the first Korean singer to perform solo at the Grammy Awards, the stage that singers all over the world dream of.
The stage with Corona was made in Yeouido, Seoul.
Already four months ago, he was the first Korean singer to be nominated for the’Best Pop Group Performance’ category and raised expectations.
[‘Rain on me’, 레이디 가가, 아리아나 그란데!]
Trophies went to others.
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Grammy’s conservatism, which has been criticized for being white-centered and insensitive to the changes of the times, has also risen to the cutting board.
Black pop star’Weekend’, who was not named as a nomination, said, “I will not make music for the Grammy in the future,” and Beyoncé, who received the 28th Grammy Award, refused to perform the celebration.
BTS, who entered the Grammy stage as an award winner in 2019 and a joint performance last year, performed their first solo performance as a Korean singer this year, stepping closer to their dream of winning a Grammy.
[RM/BTS : 방탄소년단은 한 방이면 절대 안 됩니다. 몇 방 때려야 해요.]
The good news came from other fields.
Korean-American violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill received the’Classic Solo Performance Award’.
[리처드 용재 오닐 : 비올라에 있어 위대한 날이에요. 제 삶에서 이런 영광을 얻게 돼 감사합니다.]
(Screen provided: CBS Recording Academy, USA)
(Video graphic: Park Kyung-min and Kim Jung-eun)