The Cure didn't attend ceremony to accept firstever Grammy Award for heartbreaking reason Lauren HuffFebruary 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM 0 Perry Bamonte, Reeves Gabrels, Robert Smith, Jason Cooper, Simon Gallup, and Roger O'Donnell of the Cure in 2023 Scott Legato/Getty Longtime rockers the Cure finally won their very first Grammy Awards on Sunday, but they weren't on hand to accept the honors. And it turns out they had a heartbreaking reason for their absence.
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Lauren HuffFebruary 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Perry Bamonte, Reeves Gabrels, Robert Smith, Jason Cooper, Simon Gallup, and Roger O'Donnell of the Cure in 2023
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Longtime rockers the Cure finally won their very first Grammy Awards on Sunday, but they weren't on hand to accept the honors. And it turns out they had a heartbreaking reason for their absence.
The band — which consists of Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, Roger O'Donnell, Reeves Gabrels, and Robert Smith — was absent from the ceremony due to their attendance at the private funeral for their bandmate Perry Bamonte, who died in December, according to PEOPLE.
The Cure won Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World and Best Alternative Music Performance for "Alone." They were nominated in the former category alongside Bon Iver; Tyler, the Creator; Wet Leg; and Hayley Williams. In the latter category, they bested Bon Iver, Wet Leg, Williams, and Turnstile.
Though the Cure weren't able to accept the trophies themselves, the band did share a prewritten speech from their frontman, Smith, on Instagram the following day.
Perry Bamonte of the Cure performing in 1997
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"Simon, Jason, Roger, Reeves and I would like to thank the Grammy's for this wonderful award, we are very honoured to receive it," the statement said.
It continued, "We would also like to thank everyone who helped in the creation of our Songs of a Lost World album; particularly co-producer Paul Corkett; everyone in the Universal Music Group who worked so hard to get our lost world found; everyone in our mostly indefatigable Cure crew, including all those at Primary and CAA; and, most importantly, all the Cure fans around this world who came to our Lost World shows and enjoyed our Lost World music. Without you, none of this would be possible. Thank you."
Bamonte, the band's guitarist and keyboardist, died at 65 after a short illness.
Bamonte first joined the Cure from 1984 through 1989, officially becoming a member full-time beginning in 1990 after keyboardist O'Donnell left. Bamonte's first tenure with the Cure ended in 2005, when the lineup was slimmed down. Though he was not a member of the group at the time, nor was he a founding member, he did join the rest of the crew as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
He rejoined in 2022 for the Show of a Lost World concerts that the Cure's website boasted were among the best in the group's history. A recording from that tour was released as a concert film last year.
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