- By Mark Savage
- BBC Music Correspondent
Image source, Emman Montalvan
In April 2022, Lenny Kravitz was reading out the nominees for album of the year at the Grammy Awards.
When he came to Jon Batiste’s We Are, Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas turned to the musician and whispered: “We hope it’s you.”
Batiste took home the night’s biggest prize, beating high-profile releases by Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X and Eilish herself – with a record that had virtually no commercial impact.
Voters at the Recording Academy were seduced by its hopeful…
