Daft Punk dominate Grammy Awards

French electronic music duo Daft Punk dominated the 56th annual Grammy awards with Random Access Memories winning album of the year award while their hit track Get Lucky, featuring Pharrell Williams, walked away with best record of the year trophy.

“I suppose, the robots would like to thank... I bet France is really proud of these guys right now,” Mr Williams said about his helmet-clad collaborators.

Daft Punk, whose real names are Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, also won best pop duo/group performance and best dance/ electronica alb-um and the best engineered album, non-classical category for Random Access Memories.

The highlight of the music gala, however, was not the dominion of the helmet-wearing artistes but several gay, straight and multi-racial weddings. Queen Latifah officiated the weddings and Madonna performed on best new artist winners Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s hit track Same Love.

The Seattle-based rapper duo won four awards, including best new artist, best rap album for The Heist, best rap song and best rap performance for Thrift Shop.

Songstress Lorde, the 17-year-old sensation from New Zealand, won two grammy awards: song of the year and best pop solo performance, both for Royals.