“That’s what makes me excited to celebrate so many amazing nominees, particularly women nominees, so many who are my friends.
“I have been so blessed to have been on this stage before, multiple times, and understand what it is, what it feels like, what the artists are going through,” she said. Other major artists to cover the song include Carol King, Herb Alpert. In 2008, it was ranked number 25 on VH1s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The Fugees version of the song is on the game Karaoke Revolution Volume 3. She also said that she was genuinely excited to see who would win. Propelled by the success of the Fugees track, the version by Flack was remixed in 1996 and topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. We feel this Grammys is going to be different and bigger and better than any other.” “Sunday is going to absolutely reflect that light, that love. “I feel like we are truly part of a celebration, bringing the light, bringing the energy and continuing to make the statement that music is such an important part of all of our lives,” she said. Prior to the broadcast Keys said she was honored to host the show. Keys was the ceremony’s first female host since 2005, when Queen Latifah handled the honors. Her most recent nomination was in 2014, when she was an Album of the Year contender for her contributions to Pharrell Williams’ Girl, but it lost to Beck’s Morning Phase. Her most recent win was for Best R&B Album in 2013 for Girl on Fire. She won four in 2004, two in 2007 and on it has gone. In 2001, her first year of eligibility, she won five, including Best New Artist, three for the song “Fallin'” and one for Best R&B Album, Songs in A Minor. Over the course of her career, she’s been nominated for 29 Grammys, and she’s won 15 of them. When it comes to hits, though, Keys doesn’t have much to complain about. “Then finally, you write the song that you wish you wrote,” she said before singing “Empire State of Mind.” “For the music that lives in us all,” she said at the end, before bowing and blowing a kiss at the audience. “Now who didn’t wish they wrote this song? I know I do,” before singing Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody.” A band joined her in on her rendition of Drake’s “In My Feelings.” And then she flipped over to the white piano for Lauren Hill’s “Doo-Wop (That Thing),” saying she wished she’d written the whole album. “When I think about heartache and heartbreak, I think about this song,” she said before singing, Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly.” “Or when it’s time to move on, this is the song,” she said, before singing Juice Wrld’s “Lucid Dreams,” which transitioned into Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable.” Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner nodded along. LAURYN I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style, And so I came to see him and listen for a while. Alicia Keys… killin' it! #GRAMMYs ? /ARgHd9nUiw Killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song, Telling my whole life with his words, Killing me softly with his song.