Australia's Hillsong Worship has won a Grammy Award.
The group, formed out of Sydney's Hillsong megachurch, has had huge success across the world for their Christian inspired music and concerts.
"This is an absolutely incredible honour," Brooke Ligertwood, who accepted the award with Ben Fielding on stage inside Madison Square Garden, New York, on Sunday, said.
They received the award in the best contemporary Christian music performance/song category for What A Beautiful Name.
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The award is given to artists and songwriters of new contemporary Christian pop, Christian rap/hip-hop or Christian rock singles or tracks.
"No matter how far or close you feel to God or no matter how great the distance his love is greater, his name is more powerful, more wonderful, more beautiful than any other," Fielding said.
The win came after fellow Australians Sia Furler, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Sydney trio Mansionair missed out on awards earlier in the ceremony.
Adelaide's chart-topping singer-songwriter Sia was nominated in the best song written for film or TV category for Never Give Up, featured in the Nicole Kidman, Oscar-nominated Australian produced film Lion.
Singer Joy Villa has made an anti-abortion statement on this year's Grammy red carpet. (AAP)
The Grammy went to Lin-Manuel Miranda for How Far I'll Go from Disney's Moana: The Songs.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and director Andrew Dominik were snubbed in the best music film category for One More Time With Feeling.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also received a cold shoulder in the Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package for Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.
The winner was the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition.
Sydney trio Mansionair was nominated in the best dance recording category for their collaborative effort Line Of Sight with Seattle electronic duo Odesza, but they were beaten for the Grammy by LCD Soundsystem for Tonite.
Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars got off to a winning start ahead of the evening's televised main event.
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Lamar has seven nominations and started off the afternoon by winning in the Best Music Video category for Humble beating Jay-Z's The Story Of O.J.
Pop singer Bruno Mars, who was nominated in six categories, won Album of the Year for 24K Magic in a category that had included a record three hip-hop nominees including Jay-Z's 4:44 and Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.
"Look at me, Pop, look at me! I'm at the Grammys right now!" Mars said in accepting the award for Record of the Year for the title track, a party anthem.
He won Song of the Year for That's What I Like, a steamy ode to making love in high style.
24K Magic came four years after Mars became an arena-packing superstar with his album, Unorthodox Jukebox, in which he adapted a retro blend of funk, rock and soul for 21st century audiences.
For 24K Magic, Mars followed much the same formula but brought in more R&B with steamy, sensual tracks accompanying his infectious dance numbers.
It is the first time that the 32-year-old singer has won the US music industry's most prestigious award, Album of the Year, although he contributed as a songwriter and producer on last year's winner, English balladeer Adele's 25.
The late Carrie Fisher was also a winner, posthumously awarded the Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category for The Princess Diarist.
Jay-Z, who already has 21 Grammys in his trophy cabinet, compared to Lamar's seven, is the 2018 Grammy's top nominee with eight nods.
- with AFP
