and the American music award goes to Chris Brown Now Chris Brown is not here tonight so I'm accepting this award on his behalf excuse me ciao chill out Kelly Rowland tells the audience to chill out after Chris Brown's win at the American Music Awards you never know what to expect yeah a pretty unexpected moment as the singer presented the award for favorite male R B artist where Chris was up against Brent faiyaz gibeon lucky day and the weekend and the American music award goes to Chris Brown but after reading Chris's name the announcement was met
with booze and Kelly she wasn't here for it and came to his defense Now Chris Brown is not here tonight so I'm accepting this award on his behalf excuse me ciao chill out but I want to tell Chris thank you so much for making great r b music and I want to tell him thank you for being an incredible performer I'll take this award bring it to you I love you congratulations Chris's ama's win comes after a bit of controversy just days before the show the singer claimed they canceled his performance last minute he posted
this video from a rehearsal and wrote in the caption would have been the AMA performance but they canceled me for reasons unknown foreign [Music] the clip also shows Chris was set to pay tribute to the late Michael Jackson specifically the Thriller album which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary [Music] but as Kelly explained to E.T ahead of the show always expect the unexpected you know what I I love the fact that at the amas it's very spontaneous you never know what to expect and um you know that's what I'm most excited about tonight I'm excited about
seeing all these artists and how they plan on expressing themselves and you know it's really exciting foreign