Michelle Obama Wins Grammy For Best Spoken Word Album

former American, First Lady, Michelle Obama has added an additional achievement  she was declared the winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for the category of the Best Spoken Word Album for the audiobook of her memoir “Becoming.”

Naija News Understands that new achievement gives the Obama household its third Grammy after the husband and former president of United States, Barack Obama won the award two times in the same category for his books.

This Online newspaper learnt that the audiobook released in late 2018, “Becoming” saw the former first lady slam President Donald Trump for questioning her husband’s citizenship and promoting the notion that he was born abroad.

The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,” Obama wrote.

America’s first black first lady also dug into her personal life in her book, expounding on issues including a miscarriage, using in-vitro fertilization to conceive her daughters and marriage counseling.

She faced an eccentric group of rivals that include Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys for “Beastie Boys Book” and John Waters, the director-performer known for his transgressive cult films, for “Mr. Know-It-All.”



source https://www.naijanews.com/2020/01/27/michelle-obama-wins-grammy-for-best-spoken-word-album/

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