Grammy Award for Album of the Year

Music veteran Clive Davis received the Vanguard Award at the NAACP Image Awards last night. The award recognizes work that contributes to raising awareness of racial and social issues. Davis has played a major role in developing the careers of Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, TLC, Jennifer Hudson (http://fdrmx.com/jennifer-hudson-excited-broadway-debut/), and other recording artists. Davis accepted his Vanguard Award, and made a very powerful and compelling speech. The music…

was also a seven-time grammy winner. In 1994 she won a Grammy award for best traditional tropical latin album musicares person of the year. In 1996 she won a Grammy award for best traditional tropical latin album. In 2000 she won a Grammy for best short film music video. In 2001 she won a Grammy award for best traditional tropical latin album. In 2008 she won two Grammys which were for best tropical sea and a Grammy another Grammy award was for best traditional tropical album.…

multiple Grammys including the Grammy LifeTime Achievement award, the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the Grammy Hall of Fame award, and the Grammy Legend Award. Barbra has also won multiple Oscars, a Director’s Guild of America award, Peabody awards, an Academy Award for Best Actress, Kennedy Center Honors, an AFL lifetime achievement award, a People’s Choice Award,a Brit Award for Best Selling Album, the American Society of Cinematographers Board of the Governors Award, a…

nominated for two Grammys that year and won the Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Dolly Parton Awards). She shared this award with the great Linda Ronstadt and legendary Emmylou Harris. They received this award due to a hit off of their collaboration album, Trio. They later produced a second album Trio II. Dolly Parton also won a two People’s Choice Awards that year, Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer and Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program (Dolly Parton Awards).…

performed this song in Los Angeles, California May 12, 1964 when they appeared on the Red Skelton Show and shortly after they did their first live performance on the Ed Sullivan Show on September 27, 1964. Their album “Pet Sounds” was ranked number two on the rolling stones 500 greatest albums of all-time list.…

Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time.[1] Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide.[2][3] She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know",[4] influenced…

African musician, Papa Wemba playing with Peter Gabriel in NY. Guerra wrote his own lyrics to create “Vivir” song in the Fogaraté album and overall showed an influence of Afro-pop and soukous music. As well as bringing African guitarist Diblo Dibala and that is where he picked up the influence of soukous music. Moreover, he started to play the guitar when he was around 10 years old. Later on, attended the University of Santo Domingo with courses of Philosophy and History and realized his passion…

artists can have many more nominations for Grammy awards than white artists while still winning a similar amount of Grammy…

his mother and siblings in Spain for a few years, until his grandfather was kidnapped. After the incident, his mother sent him to live with his father in Miami. Living with his father he was exposed to 3 different types of music European, Latin, and American. Iglesias got into singing when he was an early teenagers. His first live performance came in his school's yearly performance. That inspired him to continue his music career and has released 10 albums and continues to write music.…

Overlooked at the Grammy’s At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards held last February 2017, there were a number of categories where Beyonce and Adele went head to head. Both artists were nominated for song of the year, best solo pop performance, record of the year, and album of the year. However, out of four categories Adele took home the Grammy. Although Adele’s voice and talent is undeniably great, Beyonce’s Lemonade is certainly one of the most artistic albums of all time. It has a unique…