Major Grammy Honors for Adele and Foo Fighters

The 23-year-old thespian and songwriter, whose tender vocals and withering lyrics done “21” a best-selling manuscript final year, prisoner 6 awards, unconditional record, strain and manuscript of a year. She seemed to be a ideal champion for a beleaguered record industry: a pure, no-frills thespian means to compound heartbreak and tune and sell millions of annals though outlandish costumes or titillating lyrics.

Wearing a elementary black dress and grand earrings, Adele sang for a initial time given outspoken cord medicine forced her to cancel a debate final year. Her voice soared on her tellurian strike “Rolling in a Deep,” and a throng during a Staples Center here gave her a station ovation.

But Adele had to share a spotlight with Foo Fighters, who prisoner 5 awards, and with a memory of Whitney Houston, whose genocide hung over a proceedings. The horde of a show, LL Cool J, began a promote by seeking a assembly to join him in a request for Ms. Houston, and after Jennifer Hudson did a touching delivery of Ms. Houston’s strike “I Will Always Love You.”

Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters perceived 5 awards for a manuscript “Wasting Light” and for one of a tracks, “Walk.” The album, that was a initial No. 1 manuscript for Foo Fighters, was available on analog apparatus in a garage and was in a using for manuscript of a year.

“We done this one in my garage with some microphones and a fasten machine,” Mr. Grohl pronounced as a organisation supposed a Grammy for best stone performance. “It shows a tellurian component of creation strain is what’s many important.”

In a surprise, Skrillex, a 24-year-old dubstep writer whose “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” record was an astonishing hit, won 3 awards during a prebroadcast ceremony: for best dance recording, best dance-electronica manuscript and best remixed recording.

“I can’t take this anymore,” Skrillex pronounced as he supposed his third award. “I don’t know what else to contend anymore. This is a many surreal day of my life.”

Kanye West was also a tip winner, holding home 4 Grammys for “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” that won best swat album, and a lead single, “All of a Lights,” respected for best swat strain and best rap-sung collaboration. Mr. West also took best swat opening for “Otis,” a duet with Jay-Z off “Watch a Throne” that samples an Otis Redding hit.

The awards for best choice manuscript and for best new artist went to Bon Iver, a indie rope specializing in artsy choir-sounding songs that is a brainchild of a songwriter Justin Vernon. Mr. Vernon, who declined to perform, said, “When we started to make songs we did it for a fundamental prerogative of creation songs, so I’m a small bit worried adult here.”

Some vital cocktail stars walked divided emptyhanded as a strain attention seemed to prerogative back-to-basics artists. Bruno Mars had 6 nominations and gave a performance, though won nothing. Lady Gaga also unsuccessful to win.

Ms. Houston’s genocide — she was found passed in a bathtub during a hotel where a pre-Grammy celebration was hold — expel a shade over music’s biggest night.

“Tonight we ask ourselves how do we pronounce to this time, to this day?” a horde LL Cool J pronounced during a show’s start. “There is no approach around this: We have had a genocide in a family.”

Then a video of Ms. Houston in her prime, singing her strike “I Will Always Love You,” played on a hulk screen. The assembly rose to extol afterward.

The 54th annual Grammy Awards rite non-stop with a politically charged stone anthem from Bruce Springsteen and an upbeat cocktail strike from Bruno Mars, display dual poles of today’s music: a comparison formidable rocker delivering an worried law and a adorned immature cocktail star removing people to dance.

This essay has been revised to simulate a following correction:

Correction: Feb 13, 2012

An progressing chronicle of this essay wrongly settled that a coming of Mike Love and Brian Wilson during Sunday night’s Grammy Awards was a initial time in decades a dual group had achieved together. While they have seemed during private events, it was a initial time they had seemed together publicly in decades.