Macklemore And Ryan Lewis Talk Emotional Grammys Performance
Maclemore has admitted he was emotional during his Grammy Awards performance on Sunday night.
The rapper was in the middle of smash hit Same Love when a procession of 33 couples trooped into the venue, where they were married by actress and talk show host Queen Latifah.
“I got emotional during rehearsal and I got emotional during the performance,” Macklemore said on The Ellen Show.
“During the third verse I started rapping and that’s when the procession of couples started to come in and everyone stood up at that point.”
“And it gives me goosebumps thinking about it now to watch the Staples centre erupt and participate in the ceremony,” he added.
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Explaining how the idea for the mass wedding ceremony came about, Same Love singer Ryan Lewis explained: “Over the last year that a few different times we’ve had proposals on stage, people would email us and be like is there any way we could propose on stage, so we’ve done that a few times.”
Once they thought of inviting some couples to the Grammys show, “Then it just started building and building and turned into 33 couples,” he said.
During the performance the guys were also joined by Queen of Pop Madonna, who sang Open Your Heart.
“She was so gracious to come and share the stage and she killed it,” Macklemore said.