Grammy Award for Best New Artist

possibilities of undersea world computer animation. He also recalled childhood memories of a fish tank in his family dentist’s office. The final piece of inspiration for Stanton was his own relationship with his son. Software Pixar, best known for its CGI-animation has released award winning films created with the animation studio’s own image-rendering application programming interface, RenderMan. Pixar also has proprietary animation software used for modeling, animating and lighting called…

gold record status, Tejano awards of all sorts, the Grammy, etc., her thrill-filled career was unfortunately cut short when the president of her own fan club killed her. Her physical absence is felt, but Selena Quintanilla’s music still lives today. Selena Quintanilla was born April 16th, 1971 to her parents, Abraham and Marcella Quintanilla. Her music career began early around the age of eight. After completing high school, which was a correspondence school for artists, Selena enrolled at…

In the starting years of MTV, the majority of bands that used the new medium were British. British bands had already been experimenting with the style and fashion, “experimenting with the emergent medium for some time and arrived with stylish videos in hand” (Cateforis 54). Unlike American bands, these British bands had already adapted to a style suitable for television. After punk music, British bands kept the electronic instruments and “distinctions between automated and human performance were…

of his dances. He published the best-selling album in the history and spent millions of dollars for charity. Michael Jackson influenced music industry with his music videos and skillful shows. Michael Jackson is very significant person in the world of entertainment, and the legacy he left is truly phenomenal. Michael Jackson, in his relatively short life, left a great legacy. He influenced the development of the modern music. Michael Jackson was one of the artists who popularized…

One of the most well known artists today is Gavin Degraw. Gavin Degraw’s biggest hit is: “ I don’t want to be.” Gavin Degraw is a piano-playing-singing-songwriter, who often played in New York piano bars. Gavin Degraw’ sAlbums mix ballads with more rock-oriented songs, (Musicians Inspired). Ben Folds is another artist that was impacted by Billy Joel. Ben Folds is also a piano-playing-singing-songwriter. Who often writes…

gang violence. In his song “The Blacker the Berry” he raps, “I'm African-American; I'm African; I'm black as the heart of a f****** Aryan!” On “Alright” he raps, “We hate po-po, wanna kill us dead in the street fo’ sho’.” Lines like these prompted Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera to make the foolish claim that “hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years.” Even the album cover, featuring Kendrick and other shirtless black males posing in front of the White House…

October 2016 The Start and the End of Michael Jackson The birth of the king of pop, a person known around the world all because of his dance moves, jacket, and shiny glove, ladies and gentlemen I present to Michael Jackson. He is known as one of the best pop singers to live being compared sometimes to others like Elvis and James Brown. He was Also one of the first african americans to show up on MTV But he no longer lives now physically, but now in many other peoples hearts and heads (because…

episode of Transmission Gaga Vision series was the primary idea behind the music video. She stated that she wanted the video to be sexy, hence, preferred no pants. Moreover, Gaga wanted the music video to be futuristic so she decided shoulder pads would best this portray since that was her…

musical genres. Other musical genres which are combined with Jazz include funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin Jazz. Fusion Jazz started to develop in the late 1960’s and this was an era when a huge number of jazz musicians experimented with creating new sounds with electric instruments. The origins of fusion jazz are known to be jazz, rock, bebop, blues, funk, and 20th century classical music. Primary instruments used in fusion jazz consist of electric guitar, piano, electric piano, drums,…

The two brothers have worked together on creating an award winning sense of humor through the stories of their characters, most of whom are trapped in worlds that are often tinged, unforgiving, and daunting universes. Since 1984, the Coen brothers have directed more than 15 films of diverse genres ranging from adventure, romance, drama, gangster, thriller, horror, crime, apocalyptic, as well as comedy. They have been honored with 13 Academy Award nominations for directing, producing, writing,…