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  Encyclopedia: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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...
The Grammy Hall of Fame Award is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have qualitative or historical significance.
The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording [1].
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 GRAMMY.com
The 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast was held in Los Angeles' Staples Center on Feb. 13, and was broadcast by CBS Television.
GRAMMY Week — a week-long celebration of Recording Academy events that range from salutes to classical and jazz music to the MusiCares Person of the Year charity dinner and performance, which culminates with the GRAMMY Awards ceremony — has become a rich tradition of culture and arts events as anticipated as the GRAMMY Awards itself.
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.
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 Grammy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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).
Christopher Cross (Grammy Awards of 1981) and Norah Jones (Grammy Awards of 2003) are the only artists to receive the "Big Four" (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) in a single ceremony.
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 47th Grammy Awards
The Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1965, is presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees to individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording.
The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award was established by the Recording Academy's National Trustees in 1973 to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old.
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The Lifetime Achievement Award honors lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium while the Trustees Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing capacity.
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.
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 Encyclopedia: List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Grammy Award statuette 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...
Grammy: Recipient in 1990 of a "Special Merit Award", called the Grammy Legend Award, from the Recording Academy Association, which also grants Grammy Awards.
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.
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 Award - KnowledgeIsFun.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One common type of award is the 'employee of the month.' award, in which typically the recipients' names are listed in a prominent place in the business for that month.
A lifetime achievement award is an award given to an individual to honor his or her life-long contributions.
In Australia an award is also the minimum wage for a particular occupation, based on the skills required for a particular occupation.
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 GRAMMY.com
A GRAMMY is awarded by The Recording Academy's voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences.
It is truly a peer honor, awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions (GRAMMY Awards Process).
The GRAMMY Legend Award was inaugurated in 1990.
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 Grammy Awards
The GRAMMY Awards telecast made its return to Los Angeles for the 46th Annual ceremony after a rewarding trip to New York's Madison Square Garden in 2003, the first New York telecast in five years.
The 46th GRAMMYs were welcomed back to Los Angeles with the show's highest television ratings in three years.
The 45th Annual GRAMMY Awards, held on Feb. 23 in New York City, included performances by many of the top names in music, including Coldplay, Eminem, Simon & Garfunkel, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, Faith Hill, Nelly, No Doubt and others.
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 jmdl LIBRARY: 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient - Joni Mitchell: Grammy Magazine, February 24, 2002
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers* who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.
This Lifetime Achievement Award isn't the result of a popularity contest and may in some ways be more significant than the various individual GRAMMYs she has been awarded for specific work over the years.
She is thoroughly original and her work — as a sophisticated poet, a pioneering musician, a powerful and unique vocal stylist, and a brilliant renaissance woman — continues to inspire countless artists around the world.
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 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording" [1].
This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.
The following individuals have received Lifetime Achievement Awards, listed by year.
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 John Lee Hooker
John Lee awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award on February 22, 2000.
John Lee awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award on February 25, 1999.
John Lee Hooker was honored November 7, 1996 with The Blues Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award (see Special Live Events for more details).
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 Grammy Awards | University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Takács Quartet and alumni Dave Grusin and Glenn Miller were among the winners Feb. 23 at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards.
The quartet's recording of the Bartók cycle received the coveted Gramophone Award for 1998, and in 1999 it was nominated for a Grammy.
Dave Grusin, an alumnus of the CU-Boulder College of Music who was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1956, also won a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)" category for his arrangement of "Mean Old Man" on James Taylor's "October Road" album.
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 GRAMMY.com
Formal acknowledgment of these special merit awards will be made at a new elite ceremony during GRAMMY Week on Saturday, Feb. 12, as well as during the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which will be held at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005 and broadcast live at 8 p.m.
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.
Established in 1957, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc., also known as The Recording Academy, is an organization of musicians, producers, engineers, and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers.
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 USATODAY.com - Minute by minute from the Grammys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Their Sunday best: Lifetime achievement award recipients the Staples Singers and up-and-comer John Legend performed a rousing I'll Take You There before backing up Kanye West for a theatrical rendition of Jesus Walks.
Grammy gold: A few of tonight's country winners during the pre-telecast: Gretchen Wilson, for best female country vocal performance; Tim McGraw, for best male country vocal performance; the Dixie Chicks, for best country performance by a duo or group with vocal; and Loretta Lynn and Jack White, for best country collaboration with vocals.
Hammer time: Three-time Grammy award winner M.C. Hammer told Star Jones "anytime you're nominated by your peers it feels good." He added that he was pulling for Kanye West.
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 MSN Encarta - Marian Anderson
In 1957 Anderson made a singing tour of East Asia sponsored by the United Nations and in 1958 she was named an alternate delegate to the United Nations by President Dwight Eisenhower.
For the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and a Congressional gold medal in 1978.
In 1991 Anderson received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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 Grammys honor 3 local greats
Other lifetime achievement award winners are country crooner Eddy Arnold (who is working on a new album produced by Cowboy Jack Clement in Nashville, Tenn.), jazz great Art Blakey, the original members of the Carter Family, composer Morton Gould, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jelly Roll Morton.
The lifetime awards will be acknowledged at a separate ceremony on Feb. 12 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, as well as during the 47th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held Feb. 13 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Staple Singers (Roebuck, Cleotha, Mavis, Pervis and Yvonne) are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1998 Roebuck "Pops" Staples was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.
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This marks the first time in recent memory that the host of the show is also a nominee who will perform on the show.
The awards show will be preceded by a nontelevised Feb. 12 ceremony honoring the 2004 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees.
Veteran recording engineer and producer Phil Ramone and JBL Professional have been named recipients of the Technical Grammy Award.
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 Yesfans.com: Founded 4/01 - Let's Lobby the Grammy Foundation for Lifetime Achievement Award for Yes
The Grammy Foundation is a national organization based in Santa Monica, California that coordinates with numerous regional offices around the country to promote music, host the awards ceremony, and organize a variety of programs around the country each year.
It is too late for Yes this year, but I certainly think they deserve a lifetime achievement award and perhaps we can help make this happen.
Awarding Jethro Tull the grammy in 1988 was just further proof that the Grammy awards are out of touch.
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 Bob Dylan's Grammy speech 1991   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bob Dylan: at the Grammy Awards, 20 February 1991.
Thirty years after arriving in New York from Minnesota, Bob Dylan stepped forward to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
From: Martin Grossman (tgg@slip.net) Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan Subject: Re: 91 Grammy Performance Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:16:33 -0400 It seems to me Ronnie Schreiber nailed the source of Bob's Grammy speech some time ago.
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 Bob Marley receives Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On Wednesday, February 21, Bob Marley received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award during a ceremony broadcast by CBS.
Also honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards were the Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., the Who, Arif Mardin and Phil Ramone.
Their outstanding achievements have left a timeless legacy of innovative and powerful music that has changed the world socially, politically and given a voice to our cultural condition.
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 Soul Shine Magazine : Joplin, Zeppelin to Receive Lifetime Grammy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Other musical legends that are to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award will be composer Morton Gould, jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton, C&W hit maker Eddy Arnold, soul singing family The Staple Singers, departed jazz artist Art Blakely, and boogie-woogie Blues musician Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins.
Said Recording Academy president Neil Portnow of the artists to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award, and Technical Grammy: "These profoundly inspiring figures are being honoured as legendary performers and archetypal musicians, cultural ambassadors and technical visionaries.
The 47th Annual Grammy Awards are set to air on CBS at 8pm on February 13.
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 E! International - News - Zeppelin, Joplin Get Grammy'd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin--who amazingly never won a competitive Grammy--lead the list of recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Grammys, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday.
The artists will be presented with Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award on Feb. 12 and will be acknowledged a day later during the award telecast on CBS.
Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are decided annually by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees.
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 the day after thanksgiving dinner
Unfortunately for Ramblin' Jack's fans, the award for best traditional-folk album was presented in the afternoon, before the show was televised.
Elliott was disappointed to learn that the Grammy the presenter handed him was not his at all.
The Grammy festivities were less fun than they might have been for Elliott, who caught a cold in Los Angeles International Airport.
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 43rd Annual Grammy Award Nominees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Recording Academy (U.S.) announced nominees for the 43rd annual Grammy Awards.
As previously reported, Bob Marley will receive Lifetime Achievement award, with Tony Bennett, the Who, Sammy Davis Jr., and the Beach Boys.
The 43rd annual Grammy Awards will be held February 21 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS television.
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 Blues Brothers 2000 - About The Special Musical Guests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The first female performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she has been honored with countless other citations, awards and accolades throughout her stellar career, including a Kennedy Center Honor, 15 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Legend Award in 1991 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.
In 1992, Brown was honored by the American Music Awards as the recipient of their Award of Merit and by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Over the years, he has been honored by his peers with seven Grammy Awards and in 1987 was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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