Pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo, 19, won the Grammy for Best New Artist, beating tough rivals like Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas and Saweetie.
“This is my biggest dream coming true,” said the 19-year-old singer, accepting the golden gramophone from Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion, previous winners of the same award.
That wasn’t the only trophy she received, however, as she rose again on the Grammy stage to win Best Single Pop Performance for “Drivers License” and Best Pop Vocal Album for “Sour.”
But Olivia Rodrigo didn’t last long in the pleasure of having her three Grammys together, because as she left the ceremony, she broke one!
While posing with her three awards, the singer dropped one of them, which fell to the ground and broke in two, an embarrassing moment for her.
The young singer, who made her Grammys debut, made an unforgettable entrance as she went for a ’90s look in a black Vivienne Westwood dress that flattered her figure with pink details and a choker, finished with long ones gloves. .
The coronation of a queen
Olivia Rodrigo’s rise to fame has followed a dizzying pace that has brought her to the level of phenomena like Billie Eilish or Rosalía since she released her first song “Drivers License” in early 2021.
In 2020, the American was starring in a Disney Channel series, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, when she began posting videos on her Instagram of her performing her own compositions on the piano.
One of them attracted enough attention that the Interscope label, promoter of Lana del Rey and Lady Gaga’s careers, decided to promote the single commercially.
With simple lyrics about a love breakup, the song received more than 21 million views in the first three days and broke records on streaming platforms.
The ballad went viral on the TikTok platform and positioned Rodrigo as the most listened to artist in the Anglo-Saxon world, ahead of Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and The Weekend.
After the immense success, the singer announced that she was preparing her debut album and a few months later she released “Sour”, which was considered the best of the year by media outlets such as Rolling Stone and which has made its author a Gen Z icon Compare to Alanis Morissette and her 1996 Grammy winner Jagged Little Pill.
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