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  Grammy Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in musical recordings, is one of four major music awards shows held annually (the others being the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony).
However, the Grammys (usually held in February as the last of the "big three" music awards shows--the others being the BMAs and the AMAs) is the approximate equivalent, in the music world, to the Oscarss.
The awards are named for the trophy given for them, a small gilded statuette of a gramophone.
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 ULTIMUS - Musiklexikon - 44. Grammy Awards 2002
Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.
Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.)
Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.
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 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968.
Allthough in the "pop" field the award did not specify pop music performances and, in some years, ran alongside the award now presented as the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
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 Encyclopedia: Grammy Awards of 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 46th Grammy Awards were held on the February 8, 2004.
The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the...
For the UK award see The Record of the Year The Record of the Year is one of the two most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually.
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 Aretha Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She is renowned for her soul and RandB recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, hip-hop, gospel, and even opera, The state of Michigan declared her voice to be a natural wonder.
She has won 16 competitive Grammys (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets as Rolling Stone and VH1.
After the RandB category was added to the Grammy Awards in 1968, she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female RandB Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the 1980s.
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 Definition of Grammy award
However, the Grammys, usually held in February, (last of what are considered the "big three" music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows) are considered the approximate equivalent to the Oscars, in the music world.
The awards are named for the trophy which the winner receives - a small gilded statuette of a gramophone.
Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligiblilty period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Grammys begins October 1, which results in September being considered the Christmas sales period for the music industry (in which artists generally release big albums to qualify for the next year's Grammy).
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 Grammy Awards Winners History @ profitcd.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 14th Grammy Awards were held in 1972, and were broadcast live on American television.
The 16th Grammy Awards were held in 1974, and were broadcast live on American television.
The 19th Grammy Awards were held in 1977, and were broadcast live on American television.
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 Features @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
A GRAMMY is awarded by the Recording Academy's voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences.
These awards recognize contributions and activities of significance to the recording field that fall outside the framework of the GRAMMY Awards categories, and include the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Trustees Award, the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Award, the Technical GRAMMY Award, and the GRAMMY Legend Award.
The GRAMMY Awards are telecast annually to an international audience of over 2 billion in 180 countries.
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 GRAMMY.com
The GRAMMY Awards honor recordings in 107 categories across 31 fields, from rap to classical.
Gwen Stefani, who has won two GRAMMYs with No Doubt, is nominated for her first solo release, "What You Waiting For?" Joss Stone is nominated for "You Had Me," a track from Mind, Body and Soul, and Björk is nominated for "Oceania," a track from Medulla, which is nominated for Best Alternative Music Album.
Mason Williams, who won two GRAMMY Awards in 1968 for his smash "Classical Gas," is nominated for EP 2003: Music For The Epicurean Harkener.
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 Grammy Awards 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Technical GRAMMY Award recipients are determined by vote of the members of the Academy's Producers and Engineers Wing and the Academy's Trustees.
The award is presented to individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
As co-broadcast audio supervisor of the GRAMMY telecast, it was Ramone's leadership that inspired the landmark Emmy-winning 5.1 surround broadcast of the 45th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
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 Grammy Award - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings.
Like the Oscars, the Grammies, currently with a total of 101 categories within 28 fields of music (such as pop, gospel, rap), are voted by peers - in this case voting members of the Recording Academy.
The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately but cynically put as those which sell to "teenage girls and housewives").
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 44th Annual Grammy Awards Coverage at Digital Hit Entertainment (2002)
The nominations for the awards were announced on Friday, January 4th.
The awards ceremony was held on Feb. 27 in Los Angeles.
Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) and Engineer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable.
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 The 44th Grammy Awards
Robert Moog and Apple Computer have been named as recipients of the 2002 Technical GRAMMY Award, which honors individuals and companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
The awards will be presented on Feb. 26 at a ceremony a day before the 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
The album garnered three GRAMMY Awards and remained on Billboard's classical charts for nearly five years.
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 Boyer Faculty Win Two Grammy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Awards ceremony on Wednesday, February 23, 2000.
Both Orkis and Krush were interviewed by Peter Dobrin of The Philadelphia Inquirer after the award ceremony, and an article appeared in the Thursday, February 24 Inquirer under the heading "Classical Grammys generous to the city".
Orkis is a 1968 graduate of Temple University and is Professor of Piano in the Keyboard Department.
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 Grammy Awards Trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The only Grammys Elvis Presley ever won were for albums in the religious categories: "How Great Thou Art" (studio recording; Best Sacred Performance, 1967), "He Touched Me" (studio recording; Best Inspirationsal Performance, 1972) and "How Great Thou Art" (live performance recording; Best Inspirational Performance, 1974).
The only artist who has ever refused a Grammy was Sinéad O’Connor, who declined to accept her prize for Best Alternative Music Performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got" in 1990.
The only winner ever stripped of an award was Milli Vanilli, which lost its Best New Artist designation of 1989 after it was learned that the duo did not actually sing on its recordings.
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 High-End Audio Industry News - Talon Audio, O'heocha Design, The Sound Of The Valve PX25, Shindo Laboratory, Henry ...
Winners will be awarded a prize and invited to play music through their creation.
Annual Grammy Awards to be held on February 27
Unlike other music awards that allow controversial lip syncing (considered a fake performance where the band/vocalist phony a performance), the Grammy Awards only allows for true performances.
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 Grammy Awards of 1973
The 15th Grammy Awards were held in 1973, and were broadcast live on American television.
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance by an Instrumental Performer
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring
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 1994 grammy awards Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 44th Grammy Awards Nominees
GRAMMY Awards as part of the Academy's ongoing effort to broaden its reach and fully reflect the dynamic diversity of the always evolving music world.
Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced during a press conference at the Beverly Hilton hotel and attended by the world’s media, top recording artists and many key music industry executives.
Technical GRAMMY Award recipients are determined by the vote of the members of the Recording Academy's Producers and Engineers Wing and presented to individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
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 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album was awarded in 1968 and since 1995.
The award has had two minor name changes:
In 1968 the award was known as Best Contemporary Album
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 Encyclopedia: Grammy Awards of 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The 11th Grammy Awards were held in 1969.
They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968.
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 GRAMMY AWARDS
Grammy Awards of 1994: George Carlin for Jammin' In New York
Grammy Awards of 1982: Richard Pryor for Rev.
Grammy Awards of 1959: Ross Bagdasarian Sr for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
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 The Barbra Streisand Music Guide: Grammy Awards Retrospective
She has received 8 Grammy Awards and two special career awards since Columbia released her first recordings in 1962.
The listing below only chronicles awards for which Barbra Streisand was specifically nominated, not awards for which her songwriters or project colleagues were nominated.
Barbra's serious flu in February 1998 prevented her from dueting with Celine Dion at the Grammys.
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 Grammy Award for Album of the Year : Album of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Awards of 1999: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
Grammy Awards of 1994: The Bodyguard[?] by Whitney Houston
Grammy Awards of 1973: The Concert for Bangla Desh[?] by George Harrison, Ravi Shanker[?], Bob Dylan, Leon Russell[?], Ringo Starr, Billy Preston[?], Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann
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 Grammy Awards of 1960: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Grammy Awards of 1960
Grammy Awards of 1960: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Grammy Awards of 1960
The 2nd Grammy Awards were held in 1960.
Definition / meaning of Grammy Awards of 1960:
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 Grammy Awards of 1971: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Grammy Awards of 1971
Grammy Awards of 1971: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Grammy Awards of 1971
The 13th Grammy Awards were held on 16 March 1971, and were broadcast live on American television.
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 The Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), are considered the most coveted of the many contemporary music awards.
Despite the honor the awards carry and the ratings success of the televised awards show, many industry insiders consider the Grammys to be merely a reflection of mainstream commercial success.
IBM: Recording Academy teams with IBM to create official Webcast for the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards.
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 Louisiana Music at the Grammy Awards - 1958 through 1969
GRAMMY® and GRAMMY Awards® are registered trademarks of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
This list includes Louisiana music artists who have been nominated for Grammys.
Bobby Kimball with Toto, Phil Anselmo with Pantera, Maxine Brown with The Browns); non-natives who are often associated with Louisiana music (e.g.
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 grammy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Professor Orkis was on tour with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and was unable to attend the ceremonies.
Both Orkis and Krush were interviewed by Peter Dobrin of The Philadelphia Inquirer after the award ceremony, and an article appeared in the February 24 Inquirer under the heading Classical Grammys generous to the city.
The Boyer College had five Grammy Award nominations this past year.
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