In a stunning announcement, a video game song recently won an award during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. An independent musician group known as 8-Bit Big Band was nominated for their cover song of Meta Knight's Revenge from the game Kirby Super Star, written by Charlie Rose and Jake Silverman, with the original arrangement created by Button Masher.

During the night of the ceremonies, the cover for Meta Knight's Revenge won the award for “Best Arrangement (Instrument and A Cappella), beating out other nominations such as “Chopsticks” by Bill O'Connell with arrangement by Richard Baratta, “For the Love of a Princess (from Braveheart)” by Robin Smith with arrangement by Hauser and the London Symphony Orchestra, “Infinite Love” by Emile Mosseri, and “The Struggle Within” by Gabriela Quintero and Rodrigo Sanchez with arrangement by Rodrigo y Gabriela.

During their acceptance speech, they gave a heartfelt speech regarding their love of the song and the gaming music that they grew up with. They also gave plenty of thanks to the original composer, Jun Ishikawa, as well as Button-Masher for the arrangement.

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