Grammy Award for Record of the Year

Therefore, it appeals to the general public, being a popular track on several hit radio stations. It won four Grammy Awards in 2011, including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best Country Song. The speakers talked about feeling lonely at night, and needing their partner. Although the sound of the music is not typical for popular…

Jordan is an American basketball star from New York who, from 1984 to 1998, played for the Chicago Bulls, and from his record-breaking basketball performances, has been claimed to be “God disguised as Michael Jordan.” Kanye West, on the other hand, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur from Chicago who, as of 2017, has won 21 Grammy Awards. Other than all of their connection to Chicago, the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan, and Kanye West share a…

Graham, additionally hails from an "extremely musical" family. Drake comes from a mixed and one of a kind racial and religious foundation. His dad is an Black Catholic and his mom is a Caucasian Canadian Jew. Drake's folks separated when he was 5 years of age, and he was brought by his mom up in Forest Hill, a princely and dominatingly Jewish Toronto neighborhood. He had a Bar Mitzvah when he was 13, and watched the Jewish High Holy Days with his mom. Despite…

Jermaine Lamarr Cole widely known as his stage name J Cole is an award-winning record producer and American hip-hop recording artist, and he got there by himself. Jermaine was born on January 28, 1985, in Frankfurt, Germany on a U.S. Army Base to his mother a white German postal worker and his father an African-American soldier, who left his mother when Cole was a baby. At a young age taught himself how to play the piano which played a huge in his production career. In this essay, we will go…

only came to a close in 1942 as World War II charged the economy with increased demands for those industries that had useful products for the war effort. Race relations were not smooth in this era either, and New York saw race riots in 1943, just one year before the young African American, Miles Davis moved to the city. Talent never guarantees success, but for a black man before the Civil Rights Movement, success could prove doubly elusive. Especially when outside influences make it even harder.…

You start your own band. A band that plays faster, harder, and better than all the other bands in the land. Megadeth, a band that was the heaviest, loudest, drunkest band in history. Megadeth has released 15 albums and has sold over 50,000,000 records worldwide, Megadeth has had more line-up changes than any other band. Megadeth has had the same vocalist and bassist since the beginning. The lead guitar and drummer spots are constantly changed. In 1983, the band was officially forms. Megadeth…

blues, folk, pop, and classical styles that became widely popular from her debut album, “Little Girl Blue”, in the late-1950s to her last LP, “You Can Have Him” in the 70s. Over the course of her career, Simone composed over 40 records that earned her two Grammy awards and 4 nominations for her lifetime achievements, all of which come from her contribution to the Black Power/Civil Rights movements. Eunice Kathleen Waymon was born on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina where she grew up…

released, “Thriller”. More than 1 million people attended Michael Jackson’s memorial service in Los Angeles (Hollander). The Jackson name has, and will remain one of the top names in the music industry. Five years after Jackson’s death, Michael Jackson Inc. has had some of its best years, taking in $700 million since his overdose-- more money than any other musician, dead or alive, has made over their lifetime (Hune-Brown). Michael not only changed the type of music people listened to, but…

During this job was where she met and joined with other organizers and activists such as Malcolm X and Asa Philip Randolph. In 1968, on her 40th birthday, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Since that day and every anniversary date the next years, Maya sent flowers to Coretta Scott King in loving memory of her friend, and Coretta’s husband. This continued until Coretta died in 2006. Prior to his death, he and Maya had been planning the “Poor People’s Campaign,” which was, as it sounds, a…

performance amazes the public, as some people have labeled him as “The Genius”, “a cornerstone of music”, and “a legend of his own time”. Ray Charles had a 50 year career of making all types of music, researching how different genres create the unique sound that labels it as such. Ray Charles became completely blind at the age of seven years-old, however he already had a strong foundation for playing the piano. He left his studies at school and created a band at an early age. Ray Charles’ music…