Michelle Obama is now a Grammy Award winner

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published 27 January 2020

The Obamas now have another Grammy to add to their collection.

Former first lady Michelle Obama on Sunday took home the award for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio book of her memoir Becoming. Becoming describes Obama's life as a girl growing up on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to her time as first lady. Obama was up against the Beastie Boys' Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz, John Waters, Sekou Andrews, and Eric Alexandrakis.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.