“Immigrants built this country, literally. So, this is for them, for all children of immigrants… Thank you for bringing your culture, your music, your stories, and your traditions here. You give America color.”
Jon Baptiste
Jon Baptiste won the award Best Americana Album for BIG MONEY. Baptiste didn’t attend, but his co-producer accepted the award on his behalf providing a speech from Baptiste that ended with this: “Americana comes in many different shades and this is a country of immigrants – I’d like to remind you all of that.”Olivia Dean won the Grammy for Best New Artist, and although she’s not from US, she still used her time as a first-time Grammy winner to support immigrants.
“I’m up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant. I wouldn’t be here – I’m a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated. So yeah, we’re nothing without each other.”
Trevor Noah
The host may not have been accepting any Grammys but he made his feelings clear about ICE by making digs whenever he could. From calling out Nicki Minaj to asking Bad Bunny whether or not he could come and live with him in Puerto Rico to saying the reason Trump wants to buy Greenland is because he can’t go to Epstein’s island anymore, no one is left wondering where Noah stands on all this.
Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny, who is doing this year’s Superbowl Halftime Show, won the award for Best Música Urbana Album. His speech gave a message of hope, as he said: “Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say ‘ICE OUT’. We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens, we’re Americans.
Bad Bunny gave people an encouraging message of hope and love in the face of ICE. (CBS Photo Archive / Contributor / Getty)
Bad Bunny gave people an encouraging message of hope and love in the face of ICE. (CBS Photo Archive / Contributor / Getty)
“Also I wanna say to the people; I know it’s tough not to hate on these – and I was thinking sometimes we get contaminos, I don’t know how to say that in English. The hate gets more powerful, with more hate, the only thing more powerful than hate is love. So please, we need be different, if we fight we have to do it with love; if we don’t hate them, we love our people we love our family and that’s the way to do it, don’t forget that.”
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish and Finneas won the Grammy for Song of the Year with WILDFLOWER, and in a surprise of no fan of the pair, Billie had something to say: « No one is illegal on stolen land. And yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. I feel really hopeful in this room and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices really do matter and the people matter and erm, F*ck ICE.”
