Did India win any of Grammys top awards this year? Here’s how they fared

Indian artists missed out on this year’s Grammy Awards, which took place at Los Angeles, USA on Monday morning (IST). Majority of the awards were announced during the Premiere Ceremony at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, while the remaining awards were presented during the live primetime telecast.

India’s global music icon Anoushka Shankar lost to Bad Bunny in the Best Global Music Album category, leaving Indians disheartened. The artist had been nominated for the track ‘EP Chapter III: We Return to Light’ in the category, while her track ‘Daybreak’ was also competing for Best Global Music Performance. Alam Khan, who is the son of the late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and Sarathy Kowar were also primary nominees as they had co-written the song ‘We Return to Light’ alongside Anoushka.

The legendary band Shakti fronted by Shankar Mahadevan, John McLaughlin, Ganesh Rajagopalan, and V Selvaganesh, was also nominated in the Best Global Music Album category along with other artists Ciro Hurtado and Yeisy Rojas, but lost.

Jazz pianist Charu Suri had also made history as the first raga-jazz artist to receive a nomination in the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album category for her album ‘Shayan,’ while also being nominated in the Best Global Music Album category as the producer of Siddhant Bhatia’s ‘Sounds of Kumbha', though both missed out on the awards.