After the acceptance speech, in which she revealed that she already knew what she wanted to become at the age of five, and encouraged everyone present to never give up on their dream, Cher she clearly didn’t like to leave the limelight – while completely forgetting that she had yet to announce the nominees and winner of the Record of the Year category.
When the evening’s host, Trevor Noah, asked her to return to the microphone, she didn’t bat an eyebrow and strode back. But instead of winning Kendrick Lamarwho won the award for the song Luther (along with four other turntables in other categories), after a moment’s hesitation, which she excused by the absence of a reading device, pronounced the name of the late Luther Vandross.
“I swear she had a reading device where everything was written,” Music Awards executive producer Ben Winston later explained. But perhaps this was the stumbling block: the superstar hardly wears glasses for such an occasion, and from a distance she apparently mistook the title of the song for the artist’s first name.
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However, it was precisely because of this faux pas that Cher’s performance was remembered by the audience and the performer of the hits I got you babe or Believe enjoyed her five minutes of fame a little longer. In the end, even the Grammy producer himself does not regret the oversight: “If I could go back in time, I would like it to happen again. Cher was fine with it, she enjoyed the evening to the fullest. Sometimes you just need a little anarchy.”
