Grammy Award for Album of the Year

Mr. One Man Band Legendary guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is a two-time Grammy nominee and one of the greatest musicians in the world today. His love and dedication to the guitar, shows why he is one of the greatest players in the world. Emmanuel’s professional career has been going on for over fifty years and he continues to play over three hundred concerts a year. It is no small fact that this man is referred to as being the greatest acoustic guitar player alive with musicians such as; Steve Vai,…

The album was recorded live at The Muse Music Club on Nantucket Island, in August of 1993. The album debuted on College charts as the highest independent entry, and went on to be certified gold by the RIAA. During this success, the band kept touring and its fan base continued to grow. By allowing fans to tape shows for their personal use, the Dave Matthews Band created a highly interactive community. Following the success of the Remember Two Things album was the recording of…

1981 and shortly became popular on college radio stations and clubs. The Beastie Boys started out as a punk rock group with Mike D on vocals, MCA on Bass, John Berry on guitar, and Kate Schellenbach on drums. Schellenbach left the group in 1983, a year after their first extended play, Polly Wog Stew, was released. Mike D took…

Sevendust is a heavy metal band a heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia formed in 1994 by bass play Vince Hornsby, drum player Morgan Rose, and guitarist John Conolly. After their self-titled debut album on April 15, 1997. www.allmusic.com Let's talk about, Bullet For My Valentine even though loved now things weren't that way in the past. Jeff Killed John was the former name of Bullet For My Valentine was formed in 1998 by Matthew Tuck, Michael Paget…

might think of Hamilton, which, for those of you who don’t know, is a very popular rap musical currently on Broadway about America’s founding fathers, specifically Alexander Hamilton. Theatre was not always this way though. Theatre began thousands of years ago with cavemen reenacting their kills for their community members. But how exactly did this change to the theatre we know in America today? We have few credible sources about theatre from the time but most historians agree that professional…

were beginning to tire of country pop and by 1985, a New York Times article declared country music "dead". A new group of artist in the mid-1980s found a more polished country-pop sound and the charts showed people liked more traditional music. The year 1986 brought forth several new artists who performed in traditional country styles, such as honky-tonk. This sparked the "new traditionalist" movement, or return to traditional country music. In 1989 Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Alan Jackson,…

the band’s album titled “Before These Crowded Streets” (ASCAP, 2017). Noted performer Alanis Morrissette provided backing vocals for the song, and bluegrass performer Bela Fleck played banjo for the song, marking the band’s first collaboration with other performers. “Don’t Drink the Water” was the first single off the album and spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart reaching a peak position of 19th (Billboard, 2017). The album was nominated for a Grammy for best rock album. The…

multimillion-selling album, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968). This album earned two Grammy Awards and rejuvenated his career. It was also the first of two “prison” albums. The second one, Johnny…

when she was raped at the age of 7years old by her mother boyfriend she felt like the only person she can tell was her brother. But a couple days later the attacker ended up dead. Maya thought her words killed him so she stops speaking for 5/half years. When she started back speaking she and her brother joined her mother and San Francisco. Maya won a scholarship to study dance and drama. Maya then quit high school at the age of 16 to become San Francisco first African American Streetcar…

recordings include Argentine tango, Brazilian bossa nora, bluegrass and American. One of my favorite is the soundtrack for the movie, Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon. Ma’s work touches base on both theatre and traditional. Some examples are the two albums of Vivaldi’s music. He recorded with the conductor Ton Koopman. Another great accomplishment that Mas was recognized for was being named Peace Ambassador of the United States in 2006 and was appointed to the Presidents Committee for Arts and…