Gotye has won the Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Source: AAP
IT was hard to tell what Wally De Backer was more excited about.
His three Grammy haul or the fact his childhood idol, Prince, presented him with the biggest prize of the night - Record of the Year.
The Melbourne musician known as Gotye climbed to the top of the musical world on Sunday when he cleaned up at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony and joined Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, U2, Coldplay and Olivia Newton-John as a Record of the Year winner.
"I'm a little bit lost for words," De Backer said after scaling the stairs to the stage where Prince, wearing a black hoodie and holding a cane, was waiting with the Record of the Year golden gramophone trophy for the hit song, Somebody That I Used To Know.
"To receive an award from the man standing behind us here with the cane, I spent many years listening to this man's music growing up and a big reason I was inspired to make music, thank you."
Gotye beat Lonely Boy by The Black Keys, Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) by Kelly Clarkson, We Are Young by fun., Thinkin' 'Bout You by Frank Ocean and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift for the big prize.
Earlier, De Backer won Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Somebody That I Used To Know and Best Alternative Album for Making Mirrors.
The 32-year-old Aussie left the kings and queens of the music industry sitting in their seats as he made his way up on stage for the three awards.
The 20,000-seat Staples Center indoor stadium, where the likes of Beyonce, Jay-Z, Sting, Elton John, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban sat in the crowd applauding De Backer, is a long way from where he meticulously recorded his album, Making Mirrors, which featured the global No.1 single Somebody That I Used to Know.
"I recorded it mostly in a barn on my dad's block of land southeast of Melbourne, Australia, so I have to thank Dad and my Mum for letting me set up a lot of weird equipment in a barn near their house," De Backer said.
Somebody That I Used To Know, featuring Kiwi singer Kimbra Lee Johnson, has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, was No.1 in 18 countries, and was the biggest selling single of 2012 in the key US market.
It sat on top of Billboard's Hot 100 in the US for eight straight weeks.
"I obviously have one major person to thank and that is Gotye, Wally De Backer, for having me be part of this incredible song and this incredible journey," Johnson, 22, from Hamilton, said.
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