Grammys 2017: Beyoncé Wins Best Urban Contemporary Album

Beyoncé has won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Lemonade picked up the win over albums by Rihanna, Anderson .Paak, KING, and Gallant. In the below acceptance speech, she thanked God, her “wonderful husband,” her “beautiful daughter,” and her fans. “We all experience pain and loss, and often we become inaudible,” she said. “My intention for the film and album was to create body of work that will give a voice to our pain—our struggles, our darkness, and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable.” She continued:

It’s important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror first at their own families as well as the news, the Super…