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2023 Grammy Awards open with massive performance by Bad Bunny, early win for Harry Styles

The 65th annual Grammy Awards kicked off on Sunday with a colourful performance by Bad Bunny, who is up for album of the year for Un Verano Sin Ti — the first Latin album in this category — and an early award for Harry Styles.

Styles picked up the award for best pop vocal album for Harry's House.

Beyoncé had the most nominations this year with nine in total for her album Renaissance and she picked up two awards in the pre-broadcast for best traditional R&B performance and best dance/electronic recording for Break My Soul

Woman in navy gown on a red carpet.
Taylor Swift attends the 65th Grammy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles. (Getty Images)

Viola Davis also achieved EGOT status, winning a Grammy award for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording for her memoir, Finding Me.

Early Canadian wins

Other early winners included Burnaby, B.C.-born singer Michael Bublé, who picked up a Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album for Higher and Toronto rapper Drake's win for best melodic rap performance for his feature on Future's Wait for U.

Montreal conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin picked up two awards for best opera recording for Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones and best classical solo vocal album for Voice Of Nature — The Anthropocene.

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North Vancouver's Tobias Jesso Jr. accepts the Grammy Award for songwriter of the year, non classical, onstage during the 65th Grammy Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday. (Getty Images)

Tobias Jesso Jr., of North Vancouver, won songwriter of the year, non-classical, for his work with artists like Harry Styles, Adele and Orville Peck.

While Vancouver-born jazz artist Kris Davis and fellow Canadian Matthew Stevens also won a Grammy for best jazz instrumental album.

CBC News will be updating a list of major winners throughout the evening: 

Best Pop Vocal Album

Voyage, ABBA.

30, Adele.

Music of the Spheres, Coldplay.

Special, Lizzo.

Harry's House, Harry Styles.