Grammys 2017: David Bowie Wins First Ever Musical Awards

David Bowie has won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Best Alternative Album for Blackstar and Best Rock Performance for the album’s title track at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. For the first award, he won as an engineer alongside Tom Elmhirst, Kevin Killen, Tony Visconti, and master engineer Joe LaPorta. Remarkably, the awards are David Bowie’s first-ever Grammy wins for musical awards.

Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, tweeted this:

So proud of you dad!
Would hold you up forever.
❤️ #grammys2017 pic.twitter.com/JHU2hveVwq

— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) February 13, 2017

Blackstar also won Best Recording Package. The award went to designer Jonathan Barnbrook.

Previously, Bowie took home Best Video, Short Form in 1985, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

Andrew Bird’s Are You Serious, Bonnie Raitt’s Dig in Deep, Prince’s HITNRUN Phase Two, and Sarah Jarosz’s Undercurrent were also nominated for Best Engineered Album. “Blackstar” beat out songs by Beyoncé and Jack White, Alabama Shakes, Disturbed, and Twenty One Pilots.

For more of Pitchfork’s coverage of this year’s Grammy Awards, click here.

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