St. Vincent Finds She Has a Spouse and Daughter in 2025 Grammys Speech

It’s not unusual observe for artists to thank their households when successful primary awards. However, as rock superstar St. Vincent proved on the 2025 Grammys on Sunday (Feb. 2), it’s uncommon to look artists expose that they’re married with youngsters right through a large match.

Throughout the night’s pre-telecast awards, Annie Clark (St. Vincent’s offstage identify) took house the most productive rock tune trophy for her 2024 unmarried “Damaged Guy.” Throughout her acceptance speech, the singer shocked lovers and target audience contributors by means of providing a distinct shout-out to “my stunning spouse Leah [and] our stunning daughter.” In a later acceptance speech for easiest selection track album for her 2024 LP All Born Screaming, Clark thanked her circle of relatives for a 2d time.

Clark is understood for closing tight-lipped about her private lifestyles, a undeniable fact that she said in a behind the curtain interview after successful her award. When a reporter from the Related Press mentioned that they had been “completely unaware” of Clark’s marital standing, the singer jumped in so as to add that “most of the people had been,” revealing that she and her partner have made a concerted effort to stay their dating out of the general public eye.

“She’s younger, we’ve stored it below wraps,” she mentioned, ahead of briefly clarifying her level with fun. “The kid is younger, simply to be transparent, the kid is younger, no longer the spouse!” The singer added that she and her circle of relatives had plans to have fun her victory along with her sisters, however that Clark supposed “to be in mattress by means of 10” that evening.

Somewhere else in her behind the curtain interviews, Clark mirrored at the LGBTQ+ illustration at the once a year display and around the business, remarking that queer folks present within the business and the sector at massive isn’t information. “There have all the time been queer folks within the historical past of the sector, and particularly in track,” she mentioned. “There’s a number of queer folks being celebrated this 12 months. And that’s nice, in fact it’s nice — empathy and humanity, let’s move.”

For Billboard‘s 2024 Pleasure duvet tale, the singer spread out in regards to the historical past of queer folks within the track trade, whilst mentioning the significance of LGBTQ+ artists closing at the slicing fringe of tradition. “There were a number of queer folks in track. Although the tradition used to be announcing no, there have been all the time queer folks within the arts. Please. We’ve constructed this,” she mentioned. “When you’re protected for the TV display, you additionally invite a facet of grift [from the outside world]. Which … I carry an eyebrow at.”

The All Born Screaming singer took house 3 trophies at Sunday evening’s rite — easiest rock tune, easiest selection track album and easiest selection track efficiency for “Flea.” Clark used to be nominated in the most productive rock efficiency class, however in the long run misplaced out to the Beatles’ AI-assisted observe “Now and Then.”