Cher capped off a mishap-filled Grammys sequence with a bang on Sunday as she appeared to mistakenly declare that late R&B nice Luther Vandross had gained the Grammy for File of the 12 months.
Cher — one in every of a number of recipients of this 12 months’s Lifetime Achievement Award — arrived on stage to applause and started to thank the group earlier than she was awkwardly interrupted by host Trevor Noah, who offered her trophy.
As Noah held onto the trophy and walked away, Cher launched into an obvious thank-you speech, concluded her remarks, then tried to stroll off stage earlier than the host reeled her again.
“Can we get you to announce the nominees?” Noah requested Cher as she trotted again to the microphone.
“You may see I needed to get off the stage,” Cher teased.
After clips of the nominated information performed on the CBS broadcast, Cher once more appeared on display holding a winner’s envelope, solely to wrestle with the teleprompter in entrance of her.
“And the Grammy goes to …Oh! They instructed me it was going to be on the prompter,” Cher stated earlier than making a locking-lip movement.
She opened the envelope ― and made a giant blunder.
“Oh! The Grammy goes to Luther Gran-dross,” stated Cher, fumbling the identify of the R&B legend whose 1982 observe with Cheryl Lynn, “If This World Had been Mine,” impressed Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s successful report, “Luther.”
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Cher rapidly corrected herself because the Grammy winners made their option to the stage, the place they paid tribute to Vandross.
“That is what music is about. Luther Vandross,” Lamar started as he turned to Cher and his fellow collaborators for an on-stage chuckle.
Moments later, Noah made gentle of the mix-up.
“I really like stay tv,” he stated.