Grammy Award for Song of the Year

Jazz began in the late 18th century in African-American communities in New Orleans. Soon these vocal tunes made by African-Americans turned into piano songs, and soon enough evolved into the Jazz we know and love today. In modern Jazz, there are pieces that are considered “Jazz Standards”, one major contributor to these standards is the trombone player and Big Band Jazz composer, Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller lived a short yet interesting life, he differed from his competitors and left a dazzling…

albums becoming a household name. In his Grammy award winning album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Slim Shady enhances his old persona in the song “Rap God”. Starting his career off as a battle rapper shows in this song as it is bursting with quick witted rhymes but in they way he wove them together shows how he has evolved as a lyricist. Marshall will no doubt go down in history as one of the kings of hip-hop influencing the new type rap genre to this day. In the song “Rap God”, Eminem not only…

earned several awards. Pink Floyd won 3 grammys and they were brought into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Pink Floyd is broke up now but how they came toghether through Childhood is interesting. Waters wrote his songs based off of his childhood memories. Waters childhod memories were disturbing. Three of the band members…

The beginning of his career started as few others do. He didn't actually want to perform and play his songs for people, but rather have other people sing his songs. "Yet after writing his first few songs, including "The Song that Jane Likes" and "Recently", he began to consider starting his own band" (wikipedia.com). There was only one answer to this Matthews explains. "I didn't really have a vision, or a plan," says Matthews, acknowledging that some of his musical sensibility came from…

Music has been around for as many as 55,000 years. The egyptians, ancient greeks, romans and african slaves all had different forms of music. Much like today, we have several different types of music, country, rock, soft rock, gospel, jazz, pop, R&B but one the most controversial genres would be Hip-Hop and Rap along with urban black pop. Today, music is still pivotal. Music can personify people, give voice expressions to those who otherwise may not be heard. At the Super Bowl 50 halftime show…

before entering the recording sessions for the bands self-titled EP and was replaced by Jason James. www.BBC.co.uk.com the band then changed their name to Bullet For My Valentine and reworked their musical strategy. They decided to play heavy metal songs and released their final EP before record labels actually began to notice their potential of being a good band. Their success has grown and continued ever…

“Anderson was the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.” On January 7, 1955 she performed in a prestigious place, Metropolitan Opera House, which led her to fame to become one of the most celebrated singers in the 20th Century. She was a very famous and talented black opera singer who overcame many obstacles in her life, such as finding the resource to finance her vocal lessons. She was honored and rewarded by her success, but was distracted by…

African American Music came about during the time of slavery in America. Africans from many different ethnicities and nationalities built their religious and secular rituals, festivals, and social gatherings on the foundation of song, dances, and rhythms they invented to cope with the New World realities. During the slavery era, enslaved African American became the musicians of choice for white and black celebrations because they were recognized as the best “musicians” around. Enslaved Africans…

you start when interviewing a man who has fronted Grammy award winning band Switchfoot for 18 years? By asking him about his upcoming solo project The Wonderlands, and how on earth came up with a song for every hour of the day. “It is kind of a crazy concept isn’t it?” Shares the San Diego native. “I’ve always had this thing were music was this location for me. It was this place I could go, whether it was…

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.…