The best moments of the 2023 Grammy Awards, from Harry Styles' superfan to a stunned Lizzo

The best moments of the 2023 Grammy Awards, from Harry Styles' superfan to a stunned Lizzo

There also was Adele finally getting to meet The Rock, Viola Davis joining the exclusive EGOT club and Shania Twain looking like a witchy mushroom. Missed it all? No worries, we've got the best of the best moments right here.

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The crowd rose to their feet for a lengthy tribute celebrating 50 years since the sounds of hip-hop first emanated from Brooklyn house parties. With rap icons ranging from Jay-Z to Dr. Dre taking in the action from the audience, The Roots backed an all-star cast of performers that began with pioneer Grandmaster Flash doing "Flash to the Beat," followed by Run-DMC doing "King of Rock."

including DJ Jazzy Jeff (the other half of the duo that featured Will Smith), Salt-N-Pepa, Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy, West Coast rap legend Ice-T and rapper-turned-beloved TV actress Queen Latifah.

Representing more recent standouts were Swizz Beatz and Lil Wayne. LL Cool J and Lil Uzi Vert rapped things up with "Just Wanna Rock" and gave a shout-out to how hip-hop has gone from being largely an urban American sound to being to being fully integrated into culture worldwide.

In what was undoubtedly a Grammy first, the vaunted album of the year award was announced by ... a 78-year-old grandmother from Sudbury, Ontario.

Harry Styles superfan Reina Fafantaisie was one of several people who were invited to share their feelings on why their favorite performer should win. At the end of the telecast, Noah called all the superfans to the stage. After he opened the envelope, he turned to Fafantaisie and told her, "You read it."

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A shook-up Lizzo bounded on the stage to accept record of the year for "About Damn Time" and thanked Prince, who embodied the musical essence of Minneapolis, the city where Lizzo broke out.

“When we lost Prince, I decided to dedicate my life to making positive music," she said. Being misunderstood made her want to "make the world a better place, so I had to be that change, to make the world a better place.”

At the end of her long speech, she sought out a standing Beyoncé in the crowd and, weeping, thanked the all-time Grammy champion for serving as her inspiration, starting back from when she cut class in fifth grade with her sister to see the icon in concert.

“Thank you so much. You clearly are the artist of our lives!” Lizzo said, as a smiling Beyoncé nodded in acknowledgement.

Actress Viola Davis reached an epic milestone by winning a Grammy for best audio book of her own memoir, "Finding Me." That award allowed her to join the exclusive EGOT club, those artists who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Davis won her Oscar in 2017 (for "Fences"), her Tonys in 2001 ("King Hedley II") and 2010 ("Fences"), and her Emmy in 2015 ("How to Get Away With Murder").

"I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything," Davis said in her acceptance speech. "And it has been such a journey. I just EGOT!"

She's only the third Black woman and 18th person to EGOT, a group includes performers such as Jennifer Hudson, Rita Moreno, John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg and Mike Nichols, to name a few.