Soul singer-songwriter Sam Smith, who went to primary school in Saffron Walden, has won four awards at the Grammys.
The 22-year-old picked up the gongs for best new artist, best pop vocal album for In the Lonely Hour and for song of the year - Stay With Me.
Smith was rewarded for being the only solo artist to sell more than a million albums in both the UK and US in 2014.
Pharrell Williams, Beyonce and Rosanne Cash, daughter of country legend Johnny, won three awards each.
Madonna, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Kanye West and Sir Paul McCartney were among those performing at the ceremony in Los Angeles.
But the night belonged to Smith. Accepting the trophy for record of the year, he said: "I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year.
"Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys."
Smith also performed Stay With Me on stage with Mary J Blige.
Earlier, he said: "Before I made this record, I was doing everything to try to get my music heard... I tried to lose weight and I was making awful music. It was when I started to be myself that the music flowed."
Smith had been nominated for five Grammys but lost out on the best album award to Beck, who was honoured for his 12th studio LP,MorningPhase.
Later this month, Smith, who last year won four MOBO Awards, could walk off with another five gongs at the 2015 Brit Awards at London's O2 Arean on February 25.
As a young boy, Sam lived in Great Chishill, a village between Royston and Saffron Walden. He went to St Thomas More Catholic Primary School in Walden. He was also a member of the junior section of the town's amateur operatic society.
As a teenager at St Mary's in Stortford, he was a member of Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company and world-acclaimed Stortford-based youth choir Cantate.
