Grammy Award for Song of the Year

In 1992 one of the greatest, loved, and most influential musicians and artist of all-time released a song Black or White. Michael Jackson though passed away in June of 2009 his lyrics and music has continued to pass on from generation to generation. Most of his lyrics spoke to his audience and people listened. Michael sold 750 million albums worldwide, won 13 Grammy awards, and 13 number-one singles (statisticsbrain.com). He was inducted into the Hall of Fame not once but twice and was known as…

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines homophobia as the irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. While society has made great strides towards becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community, there is still a portion of the population that has not changed. And in hip hop culture today, it can be seen by many that homophobia is still prevalent. Joel Penney is quite aware of this as his article entitled, “We Don’t Wear Tight Clothes”: Gay Panic and…

been highly scrutinized throughout his career and has grown from the events; he has become a low key average man and an incredibly popular Grammy Award winning artist. Eminem keeps his life extremely low key, even in his music he is still so subtle. His music tells a story for the audience to imply that it is about him, but is it really? In the award winning song “Lose Yourself” he lets you into his home and his heart, after a few tries of figuring that out. In the lyrics, “but he’s broke, he’s…

and If It Ain't About Money. In addition, Joe made contributions to the work of other musicians and had an appearance on a remix of DJ Khaled's Welcome To My Hood. In 2011, he debuted his inaugural mixtape, titled The Darkside Vol.2. In that same year, Joe released the singles Another Round and Yellow Tape as a preview of his upcoming 11th studio album, which had not yet been given a title. Following a hiatus of nearly a decade, he achieved a 'Top 40' chart success with his single, All the Way…

From his brother’s death to the great floods of Arkansas, Cash wrote songs about it all. Except this time, not only did he just record music, Cash also had special appearances on radio barn dance programs, network television shows, and even in movies. “His star ascended higher still in 1958, when he departed from Sun Records…

Berry on guitar, and Kate Schellenbach on drums. Schellenbach left the group in 1983, a year after their first extended play, Polly Wog Stew, was released. Mike D took…

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…

compatibility. This console became a bestseller. Popular music during this decade was very upbeat and entertaining to listen to. One of the popular songs was ¨Yeah!¨ by Usher introduced on February 28, 2004. This song included R&B and Crunk. ¨Yeah¨ earning the spot in the ¨Billboard Hot 100¨ chart and became the longest-running song in 2004. Ushers song was granted with the rank of…

These albums led to headlining performances in Las Vegas and New York, which then resulted in several television appearances (Bio.com). Sammy was one of the few stars, African American or white, to receive Emmy, Tony, and Grammy Award nominations (Notablebio.com). These awards serve as reflections of the affection people truly felt for him and his accomplishments (Notablebio.com). Sammy was a member of the legendary Rat Pack. The group consisted of five performers, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra…

Hamilton is an award-winning Broadway musical that tells the story of a lesser known Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton. The project evolved from a single song performed at the White House Poetry Jam in May of 2009 to an internationally renowned musical over the past 8 years. The musical first ran off-Broadway and officially opened on Broadway in August of 2015. It quickly became one of the most popular musicals of the year and has since won a Grammy, the Pulitzer Prize for drama, 11 Tony’s…