Grammy Award for Record of the Year

money making Late Registration. If College Dropout was his coming out party, than Late Registration was the reason that we still speak of Kanye. Kanye spent more than a million dollars of his own money to sign orchestras and book studio times most record labels do this themselves, but since he is a perfectionist, he spent way too much time and money in the studio, and the orchestras. When the album was finished, he had created a masterpiece. The commercial success the album received was in most…

1944, in Mississippi. She grew up on her grandparent’s farm in Chickasaw County after her parents divorced and her mother moved to California. Seeing their granddaughter’s musical talent, Bobbie’s grandmother brought her a secondhand piano. At seven-years-old, Bobbie already started composing her own songs. At an early age, she taught herself how to play the piano…

The Beatles were a pop/rock band active from the early 60’s to around 1970. They contributed so much to rock and pop music and have been awarded multiple grammys and prestigious awards over their short span of only around ten years. However their legacy still remains. Formation of the band In the 50s guitarist and singer John Lennon formed a band known as “the Quarrymen” In 1957 “the Quarrymen” added guitarist: Paul McCartney, to the roster. Not much later George Harrison (a friend of Paul…

“My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view”- Carole King, born in New York on February 9 1942, started her career as a Brill Building songwriter. During her career at the Brill Building, King wrote most of her songs with her husband Gerry Goffin. The duo successfully wrote more than two dozen chart hits (Wikipedia), until 1968 when the couple separated. As a result of the split King chose to move across the country to Laurel Canyon, Los…

Michael Jackson I have never seen that podium with the words “KING OF POP” Yes, I am talking about the man who is in the heart of thousands of people, The Michael Jackson. There are so many artist is the world, they are performing, making their own music, they have lots of creativeness but no one can be like him and no one called with this name “KING OF POP”. In India people always says that “You cannot make an artist, it comes by born”. And you just need to find the artist behind it. And every…

An Emmy Award recognizes excellence in the television industry. It corresponds to the Grammy Award for music, the Academy Award, or the Oscar for film and the Tony Award for theatre. Winning all four is referred to as the grand slam or “EGOT” coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas who said his acronym originally stood for energy, growth, opportunity and talent. Only 12 people have achieved this. Directly off the Emmy website, The Emmy Awards were conceived in 1948 and its founding fathers…

High School in Memphis and graduating in 1953 “becoming the first member of his immediate family to earn a high school diploma” (Elizabeth Nix). he would go on and record his first single…

Mexican, Latin, popular, country, rap and blues music. Tejano is often described as bouncy and upbeat. In fact, Tejano musicians still sing their songs in Spanish. During the 1970s, few people outside of Texas and Mexico knew about Tejano. For many years, Tejano fans thought their own this genre…

musical mistakes and accomplishments have made him the acclaimed musician he is today that has influenced many current country artists. He has worked amazingly hard to succeed in the music world. He is especially proud of all the awards he has received over the years. Brooks truly loves entertaining people. Brooks became interested in music when he was young. He became a performer because of his mother Coleen Brooks. He wanted to keep the tradition going by singing because he…

to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith (“Birthday No #1.”), which won the MTV Movie Award for Best Song from a Movie (“Aerosmith Awards.”). Diane Warren, the songwriter, became nominated for an Oscar for the Best Music from an Original Song, won the ASCAP Award for Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures, and was even nominated for the Grammy Best Song written Specifically for Motion Picture or for Television (“Diane Warren Awards.”). Other songs they may have heard could have been “Candle in the…