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Michelle Obama wins Grammy for best-spoken word album

Her win on Sunday gives the Obama household its third Grammy. Lil Nas X, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and… Michelle Obama? The former first lady can now add Grammy winner to her resume, after snagging the award on music’s biggest night for Best Spoken Word Album, for the audiobook of her memoir “Becoming.

Her win on Sunday gives the Obama household its third Grammy: former president Barack Obama has already snagged two Grammys in the same category for his books.
She faced an eccentric group of rivals that include Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys for “Beastie Boys Book” and John Waters, the director-performer known for his transgressive cult films, for “Mr. Know-It-All.

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Released in late 2018, “Becoming” saw the former first lady slam President Donald Trump for questioning her husband’s citizenship and promoting the notion that he was born abroad.”The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,” Obama wrote.

America’s first black first lady also dug into her personal life in her book, expounding on issues including a miscarriage, using in-vitro fertilisation to conceive her daughters and marriage counselling.

In other news – In pics – Meet Kobe Bryant’s wife of 20 years Vanessa Laine

Meet Kobe Bryant’s wife of 20 years Vanessa Laine: Pics. A couple of weeks before his untimely death, basketball legend Kobe Bryant had penned a heartfelt message on social media celebrating his childhood sweetheart and wife Vanessa Laine.

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Kobe who was 41 met Vanessa (37) some 20 years ago when she was still in high school and they started dating before marrying eventually. In the post, Kobe called his wife “Queen” and their four daughters “princesses”. Read more

Source: The Citizen