Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

outstanding award. He is the first musician to ever win the Nobel Prize Award for Literature and it has come with a lot of controversy. Even though some consider him not to be one of the best musicians, he is one of the most important poets and musicians of all time because he has expressed so many social and political concerns throughout his lyrics. His great works can be not only sung but also spoken, chanted, recited, and read. The Nobel Committee for Literature presented him with their 2016…

anything but positive with the album receiving a 7.6, an all time low, from industry leading reviewer Pitchfork. The album was like nothing ever seen before, featuring prominent use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine with stacked synthesizer samples to accent its heavy Auto-Tune nature. Traditionally used as a pitch correction software for instruments and vocals, 808s and Heartbreak utilizes Auto-Tune as a method of conveying feelings too raw to be spoken explicitly. In this album West challenges…

Homecoming on Earth", travelling to promote the celebration, and recording narration and appearing at several events at the park. Along with this achievement, throughout the years of her life she has won Academy Award for best actress, The Golden Globe award for best actress, and Grammy award for Best Album for children along with many more. She was the star girl in her prim and from there she has progressed and stuck to her pride and values. She has children of her own also. Not only is she…

Martin Luther King’s parents are Martin Luther King the 111 and his mother was Alberta Williams King. Martin Luther King’s siblings were Christine King Farris, Alfred Daniel and Williams King. Martin Luther King’s date of birth was on January 15, 1929 the day of his death was April 4, 1968.The education that Martin Luther King had was that he attended David T. Howard Elementary School in Atlanta at the age of 5 years old but the starting age at that time was six so he had to return the next year…

Maya Angelou: Strength of the Human Spirit “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”, [are the famous words of former author, singer, dancer, and poet, Maya Angelou. The famous role model has won many awards including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding literary work category, achieved many goals by becoming an activists, and left many marks on the world in her various poems, stories, and biographies. She was…

name. In the mid-1950s, her career as a performer began to take flight. She got a role in a tutoring production of Porgy and Bess, later she appeared in an off-Broadway production entitled Calypso Heat Wave in 1957. Maya Angelou released her first album "Miss Calypso" in the year 1957. Maya Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild and she was also a civil rights activist. Maya Angelou organized and starred in the musical revue "Cabaret for Freedom". The goal of her musical revue was to…

popularity. As his profile rose, the sales of his book, Dreams from My Father also soared. Time Magazine listed Obama’s book among the top 100 non-fiction books written in English in 1923. In 2006, the book’s audio version won him a Grammy Award for the best spoken word…

Tina Fey Tina Fey is an actress, comedienne, writer and producer, probably known best for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. Her well-rounded comedy style appeals to many people. Fey’s special style is one of the things that makes her considered to be one of the greatest comedians of all time. She was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and started comedy with an improv group called The Second City in Chicago. She went on to become a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live…

her to start writing with her feelings and tell her story. First, she wrote, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969, which was the autobiography that I read. In it, she tells the story of her childhood and how she had believed that her words were what killed the man, when she was younger, but now, being the “caged bird” and “singing.” Another poem that she wrote in 1993 and is know for is called, “On the Pulse of Morning.” She wrote this poem especially for President Bill Clinton’s…

through hip-hop and punk states, “Queen Latifah rapped with a Black feminist perspective that made her anti-sexist anthems become popular among urban women” (Parmar 23). She addressed the issues of empowerment, social justice, and identity. Her debut album “All Hail the Queens” was the song she wrote that became one of the first female voices in the male-dominated genre of hip-hop. Queen Latifah's music talked about sexual harassment, domestic violence, and the struggles that black women faced.…