{"id":803486,"date":"2020-01-26T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=943434"},"modified":"2020-01-26T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:27:46","slug":"watch-alicia-keys-and-boyz-ii-mens-moving-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-the-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-alicia-keys-and-boyz-ii-mens-moving-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-the-grammys\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Alicia Keys and Boyz II Men\u2019s Moving Tribute to Kobe Bryant at the Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/10532344lW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>While hosting the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alicia-keys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alicia-keys\" data-tag=\"alicia-keys\">Alicia Keys<\/a> brought out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/boyz-ii-men\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boyz-ii-men\" data-tag=\"boyz-ii-men\">Boyz II Men<\/a> for a moving tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kobe-bryant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kobe-bryant\" data-tag=\"kobe-bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-dead-obit-943243\/\">who died Sunday<\/a> in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] music\u2019s biggest night celebrating the artists that do it best, but to be honest with you, we\u2019re all feeling crazy sadness right now,\u201d Keys said. \u201cBecause earlier today, Los Angeles, America and the whole wide world lost a hero,\u201d Keys told the crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. \u201cAnd we are all literally standing here in the house that Kobe Bryant built.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keys and the R&amp;B group performed the band\u2019s 1991 hit \u201cIt\u2019s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,\u201d as silence filled the arena. \u201cWe never thought in a million years we\u2019d have to start the show like this,\u201d Keys said.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were aboard a helicopter when it crashed near Calabasas, California, on Sunday morning. Los Angeles County Sheriffs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LASDHQ\/status\/1221569054122467328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;that all nine people aboard the helicopter were killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act,\u201d Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1221552460768202756?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cTo lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammys-2020-alicia-keys-boys-ii-men-kobe-bryant-943434\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hosting the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Alicia Keys brought out Boyz II Men for a moving tribute to Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash. \u201c[It\u2019s] music\u2019s biggest night celebrating the artists that do it best, but to be honest with you, we\u2019re all feeling crazy sadness right now,\u201d Keys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 14:57:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}