[GRAMMY AWARDS] : Shape Of You Singer Ed Sheeran gets Grammy as Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar lead early race

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Ed Sheeran has won the best pop vocal album award at the 60th Grammys in New York City for his record Divide.

But the 26-year-old British singer was not available to collect the honour presented during the pre-televised show, which is being hosted by James Corden.

Sheeran's track Shape Of You is also nominated for best pop solo performance.

The early race at the 60th ceremony is being led by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar who have three victories apiece.

Jay-Z is yet to triumph ahead of the main event at Madison Square Garden despite leading the way for nominations, with eight.

Mars's victories included best R&B song for That's What I Like and best R&B album with 24K Magic, while Lamar's HUMBLE. beat Jay-Z to win best rap song and best rap performance.

Awards have also posthumously been given to Leonard Cohen, for best rock performance, and Carrie Fisher, for best spoken word album with her reading of her memoir The Princess Diarist.

Many musicians arrived on the red carpet wearing white roses in a display of solidarity with the anti-sexual harassment Me Too and Time's Up campaigns

Rita Ora, Sam Smith, Lady Gaga, Cardi B and Kelly Clarkson were among the musicians who arrived on the red carpet wearing or holding white roses in a display of solidarity with the anti-sexual harassment Me Too and Time's Up campaigns.

The symbolic move was proposed by a group of music executives after Hollywood stars wore black at the Golden Globes in a similar protest following the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray also wore the roses.

While on the red carpet, Sting spoke about Time's Up and Me Too, saying it was "an important conversation" and "a time of learning and hopefully, eventually, a time of healing".


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