Grammy Award for Best R&B Album

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    Formed in 1993, Daft Punk is a French electronic music duo by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They were founded by Pedro Winter, the head of Ed Banger Records. Their music consists of house music, funk, techno, disco, rock music, and synthpop. They had significant popularity in the late 1990s. They are also known for their visual stylization and disguises associated with their music. The duo have worn elaborate helmets and gloves to give of robot personalities. After 2001, they…

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    Have you ever thought you would become a multi-platinum recording artist? Well I'm about to tell you about one of them. Beyoncé is one of the most-known singers in the world. Having over 30.4 million followers on Instagram, and over thirteen million Twitter followers, she has shown the world her talent of singing and dancing. Now we're going to take it back to when it all started. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas. At an early age she was known for…

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    Big Pun Accomplishments

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    platinum status, and (3) Be nominated for a Grammy Award. Due to his contributions he implemented in the hip hop industry, he was able to make Latino rap mainstream. This is significant because it has been claimed that rap and hip hop was dominated by African-American artists. Big Pun was a big influence in getting more Latinos interested in this genre. Rios was born in the Bronx, New York City by his two Puerto Rican parents. He grew up in the South Bronx…

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    producer and songwriter Clarence Paul, and he started going by Little Stevie Wonder. He released his first two albums when he was only twelve years old. “Tribute to Uncle Ray” was his first album at only twelve years old. The album contained covers of Ray Charles’ songs. Although neither of the albums sold well, things took a turn when he released the live album The 12 Year Old Genius. The album was so successful that it became Motown’s very first top charting LP. When Stevie started going…

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    Neo Soul Music Essay

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    development of modern days neo-soul music in America, what makes this style of music fascinating to a lot of music lovers, artists that excels in this style of music and how it influenced musicians around the world. It is extremely difficult to separate R&B, hip-hop, jazz and neo-soul as these genres of music are closely tied together in history. In this research, focus will be heavily put on artist such as D’ Angelo, Questlove, Robert Glasper, Hiatus Kaiyote, etc. Music itself has no…

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    Count Basie Research Paper

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    big band that had many hits, for example: “Blue Skies” and “One O’Clock Jump.” Basie’s band and music helped to define the ‘swing’ era. He became the first African American male to receive a Grammy Award. Throughout his years he’d worked with a variety of different artists and had won countless other Grammys. Unfortunately, his life came to an end in Florida on April 26th, 1984. To begin with, Count Basie was born to Harvey Lee, a mellophonist and Lillian Basie, a pianist…

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    Essay On Erykah Badu

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    “Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.” -Erykah Badu. Just one of the many inspirational quotes said by the soulful artist. Born Erica Abi Wright later change to Erykah Badu,("kah" is an Egyptian term for one's "inner self," and "badu" is her favorite jazz-riff scat sound.) on February 26, 1971, in Dallas, Texas. Erykah was introduced into music and other arts in her early life because…

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    Michael Jackson

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    their neighbors. He then grew dramatically, getting many hits. Later in his life, one of his songs, Thriller, won eight grammy awards and was one of the best selling records of all time. The first song that he performed as a solo artist was “Off the Wall,” in efforts to have a solo career in addition to his band, The Jackson 5. He received his first grammy award for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance in 1980. Now extremely famous, the Jackson 5 continuously were touring and were…

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    Jon Bellion is a Grammy Award winning producer, songwriter, singer and rapper. Jon was born on December 26, 1990 in Long Island, New York. Started playing piano when he was six and has stuck with music ever since then. In high school, he was torn between playing basketball, and making music. Finally in his junior year he decided to focus fully on music. After high school Bellion attended Five Towns College, but eventually dropped out with his band Beautiful Mind. With the promise to always have…

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    for R&B singer D'Angelo, Badu caught the attention of his manager Kedson Massenberg, who would soon sign her for Universal and begin transforming her debut demo Baduizm. Baduizm exploded onto the music scene in 1997 with soulful hits such as "On & On", "Next Lifetime", and "Appletree". The album marked a shift in the music of its time and began on what was the neo-soul movement. Baduizm won critical acclaim and won Badu two Grammy Awards , for best female R&B vocal performance and best R&B…

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