#FlashbackFriday: When Hillary Clinton Won a Grammy

Senator, first lady, State secretary, and now presidential hopeful—Hillary Clinton’s career has plenty of highlights to choose from.
But we’re a little obsessed with a little-known award—her 1997 Grammy win for best spoken word album.
Clinton won for the audio of her book, It Take a Village, her massively popular book on child care she wrote during husband Bill Clinton’s administration.
“I didn’t know that people who couldn’t even sing a note and were tone deaf were even eligible for any Grammys,” she said after winning the award in 1997.
The then-first lady was obviously overjoyed to the get the award, and you can tell she was rocked a little by the attention. But she stayed gracefully on message as she explained the themes behind the book of supporting families and youth—the same support she brought almost two decades later at the convention where she became the first female presidential nominee from a major political party.