Grammy Award for Album of the Year

September 4th 1981( 34 years old) in Houston, Texas in the US. She was named after her mothers maiden name. She has Native American, African, Irish and French heritage and is descended from Joseph Broussard, the Acadian leader through her mother. She was discovered at the age of eight and she met her future destiny child band mates. She is a very generous person and has worked with several charities. Her voice is categorized as a mezzo soprano. She is a multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning…

for about three decades now, that is why she is considered to be one of the highest-paid musicians of today. She actually sold more than 300 million albums in the past 30 years. The most famous single that actually made her reach the top of the charts is the song “Like A Virgin”, which debuted in 1984. She also won not just one, but seven Grammys. She also signed a $120 million record deal with Live Nation Entertainment and the ticket sales from her latest tour were around $1.3 billion. PAUL…

name that represented his culture and stood for something. Kanye is an Ethiopian name that means “Only One” and I think it totally describes what Kanye West represents (West, 2007, p.46). Six out of seven solo albums debuting at No.1 and total of 34 million albums sold. Winner of 21 Grammy Awards and other 68 nominations as a record producer, singer, songwriter and rapper. Until today, no other hip-hop artist has won more. Plaudits from Lou Reed, Prince, Paul McCartney and many more…

because of your violent drinking habits? You start your own band. A band that plays faster, harder, and better than all the other bands in the land. Megadeth, a band that was the heaviest, loudest, drunkest band in history. Megadeth has released 15 albums and has sold over 50,000,000 records worldwide, Megadeth has had more line-up changes than any other band. Megadeth has had the same vocalist and bassist since the beginning. The lead guitar and drummer spots are constantly changed. In 1983,…

for making pop music “weird.” Five albums and eight years later, Lady Gaga continues to rock the entertainment industry not only with her excellence in music but most recently in her debut acting career, therefore, ultimately rewriting her star text. The body of work, authorized and calculated image construction, publicity, and audience participation one sees in Lady Gaga can be defined as her star text (Jackson). A star text can include a celebrity 's albums, movies, music videos, interviews,…

had released his first album in 1994 at the age of 15 and continued on, cause I know I didn’t know that. Also Usher’s songs have constantly landed on the chart and earned several Grammys, people choice awards, and among other honors. He had sold up to 1 million copies of the album “ Confessions” in the first week it got released. (biography.om). Usher Raymond was born on “October 14, 1978 in Chattanooga, Tennessee”, he had entered his celebrity days at the age of 14, two years after he had…

nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and was a huge commercial success. He got criticism for the song as well. Blender ranked it forty one on its list of the “Worst Songs Ever”, said that it resembled “a term paper scribbled the night before it’s due.” Joel said he had mixed feelings about the song. He said “It’s a nightmare to perform live, because if I miss one word, it’s a train wreck.” He has also called it a “novelty song” that does not “really define me as well as album…

production in the Soviet Union. He ranges from pop, to bluesy-jazz with his name closely associated with it. In 1989, Billy Joel won the Grammy Legend Award. In 1999, Billy Joel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, by his idol Ray Charles. In 1999, his worldwide sales for his songs passed the 100 million mark. In 2013, Billy Joel won the Kennedy Center Honors Award. Billy Joel has also put hundreds of thousands of dollars into college music programs. Billy Joel donated $300,00 to…

Lesane Parish Crooks, we all know him as the great Tupac Amaru Shakur. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Harlem New York. He lived with his mother and his sister who was only two years younger than him. His mother, Afeni Shakur who was born as Alice Faye Williams, raised Tupac and his sister on her own. She was a member of the Black Panther Party and was arrested for causing the start of a riot, she battled with drug abuse for a long time and was always in and out of jail. Tupac probably would…

that would allow him to defy gravity. The shoes had slots in the bottom of them that the dancer would slid into pegs that were on the ground. Then all he or she would have to do is lean in any direction. Michaels voices not only help in winning grammy awards but his dance movies help him win 8 of them. Last in michael's words he said that “the making of the video seem to take forever. My backup dancer and myself included seem to mess up the moves to the song too many times.” As Michael said…