ALESSIA CARA, THE ONLY FEMALE AT GRAMMY 2018

Singer, Alessia Cara has become the only woman to win the Grammy 2018 for "Best New Act" Artist on Sunday. The rest of the categories were dominated by men, especially Bruno Mars, who swept song, record and album of the year categories.

Recording Academy President Neil Portnow reproached the women for not making good music to win awards.

In his words, “I think it has to begin with women who have the creativity in their hearts and souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, who want to be producers, who want to be part of the industry on the executive level to step up,”.

“Because I think they would be welcome. I don’t have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you face but I think it’s really a combination. Us as an industry making the welcome mat very obvious, creating mentorships, creating opportunities not only for women but all people who want to be creative and really paying it forward and creating that next generation of artists who feel like they can do anything, they can say anything”.

The award's lack of female winners coincidentally came on a night when many women stood up against inequality and discrimination in the music industry. Stars walked the red carpet with white roses in support of those fighting sexual harassment, Kesha gave a moving performance of "Praying" with Cyndi Lauper, Camila Cabello, Julia Michaels, Andra Day and Bebe Rexha, and Janelle Monae delivered a touching speech about the Time's Up movement.