Kevin Parker of Tame Impala Reveals He Slept Through His 2026 Grammys Win: 'I Forgot They Were Even On'
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala Reveals He Slept Through His 2026 Grammys Win: 'I Forgot They Were Even On'
Yamillah HurtadoTue, February 24, 2026 at 2:10 AM UTC
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Kevin Parker in Seoul, South Korea in November 2024
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Kevin Parker of Tame Impala admitted he slept through his Grammy win this year
"I forgot they were even on," the artist said in a conversation with Mac DeMarco for Interview magazine
The Australian musician won Best Dance/Electronic Recording for "End of Summer" at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 1
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala missed his 2026 Grammy win — because he was snoozing.
During a recent interview with Mac DeMarco for Interview magazine, Parker admitted he was fast asleep when Tame Impala won the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for "End of Summer" from the 2025 album Deadbeat at this year’s ceremony.
After the indie singer congratulated Parker on his Grammy win, the Australian musician confessed, "Look, I'm going to be dead honest with you. I forgot they were even on."
Tame Impala performs on stage at Barclays Center in New York City in October 2025
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"So did I," DeMarco, who opened for Tame Impala on the 2015 Currents tour, replied. "But the difference is, I'm not up for any Grammys. You are."
Parker, 40, then revealed that he had forgotten he was nominated and was confused when he received congratulatory messages.
"You have to imagine my confusion because in Australia, we wake up and then we find out about what happened in America… so my phone has absolutely blown up," Parker explained. "I've got 30 messages on my phone, all saying congratulations. None of them are saying what for. And I’m like, 'What for, motherf---er?'"
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Tame Impala's win at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards marks his second Grammy, as his music project previously won in the same category for "Neverender" in 2025. The one-man band has been nominated for five Grammys throughout Parker's career, including Best Alternative Music Album nominations for The Slow Rush in 2021, Currents in 2016 and Lonerism in 2014.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Parker and DeMarco reminisced on their early days as artists and how performing has changed since.
"It's funny, I don’t know if it's partially the sober thing, but going back out and playing now it's almost amplified," DeMarco said. “If it's a good show, it's really good. If it's a bad show, it's really f---ing bad. In the moment, I'm kind of like, 'Oh, that was horrible.' But it's horrible in a way you can taste."
Parker echoed this sentiment and added that he's learned to appreciate when a performance doesn't go as planned.
"More and more, I've just been appreciating the moments when it doesn't go to script because the bigger the shows you play, the more everything has to be to a script," Parker explained. "If you go off it, then the whole show falls apart because it's all time-coded and everything's locked in. So when things go wrong, for me, that's the sort of spice."
Kevin Parker performs onstage during Tame Impala's show at Barclays Center in New York City in October 2025
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Tame Impala is getting ready for their Deadbeat Tour — the North American leg kicks off this summer in Miami and features DJO and Dominic Fike as openers.
"This year's going to be the big dogs where we just go to America for f---ing eight weeks or whatever it is. See if we can stay sane," Parker told DeMarco.
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