Grammy Award for Record of the Year

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August 9th, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. She was the youngest of 3. Her parents are John Houston and Emily "Cissy" Houston. Her mom was a Grammy-award-winning gospel singer and her godmother was Aretha Franklin and her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick were also singers, as well as her other godmother, Darlene Love so she knew singing and was born for it . At age 11 she started performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist and learned to play the piano.…

music is the key ingredient in achieving peace. He has been living in various cultures and places throughout his life and has connected the people of these cultures together with his music. He was pianist and a recording artist who after winning the Grammy realized the true…

1 on the Billboard 200, includes five singles: “The Negative One,” “The Devil in I,” “Custer,” “Killpop,” “XIX” and “Goodbye.” Lead single, “The Negative One,” received nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 57th Grammy Awards. The following year, at the 58th Grammy Awards, the album was nominated…

stardom he was a songwriter writing for singer Connie Francis. His first million seller came in 1958 “Splish Splash”. This was followed by a string of hits such as “Dream Lover”, “Mack the Knife”, and “Beyond the Sea”. In 1962 Darrin won a Golden Globe award for his first movie “Come September” in which he performed with his first wife Sandra Dee. Darrin began having health problems which stemmed from his childhood when he got sick with rheumatic fever and tragically died at the age of 37 after…

James Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The…

substances in her body including marijuana, Xanax, flexeril.Whitney told oprah that even when she was her room doing drugs. She would often play gospel music and read the bible. Whitney was suffering, she was doing poor. The show aired during the worst years that the couple's crumbling : drug use freestyle excess and bad behavior were all caught a tape and Houston’s reputation sunk.Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992,…

Selena won 67 awards total. She also had 86 nominations. In 1986 Selena won “Female Vocalist of the Year” at the Tejano Music Awards. Selena would go on to win this award seven more times. She also won “Female Entertainer of the Year” at the KFLZ Awards. Selena became a spokesperson for Coca Cola in 1987. Selena won “Female Entertainer of the Year” eight times at the Tejano Music Awards. In 1993, Selena won “Female Vocalist of the Year”, “Album of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and…

Swift’s childhood is unique and mainly about her exquisite family. Swift enjoyed music so much that she wrote her own. While she was popular outside of school, inside school had its own little twist. Finally, Swift was able to release her music and won awards for them. In her spare time, Swift picked up many relationships during her hit career. I believe that Taylor Swift is one of the best singers out there and that she has lived a forever lasting career. Taylor Swift’s childhood is about many…

Dana Elaine Owens was known professional by her stage name Queen Latifah. Queen was a Grammy-winning rapper, record producer and actress, known for her roles in ‘’Chicago”, “Bessie” and “Set it off” and many more. Latifah was born March 18, 1970 (age 47) in Newark, New Jersey. When she was 8 years old, a Muslim cousin gave her the nickname. Latifah means delicate and sensitive in Arabic. She had an older brother name Lance Owens, who died in a motorbike accident in 1992. She attended Catholic…

immediately raised him to fame. Also, in 1999 Eminem’s mom filed a $10,000,000 lawsuit against him, but only received $25,000, and Marshall married Kim. In the year 2000, he created Marshall Mathers LP, which sold over two million copies in one week. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, won a Grammy Award, received a nomination for Album of the Year, and is considered one of the best rap albums of all time. It changed the way people saw rap, since it was based on heartbreak and anger. He…