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2011 – Grammy award winners for 2011… Lady Gaga gives and eggstra special red carpet walk!
Nominees and Winners list complete at: http://www.grammy.com/nominees
Album of the Year: “The Suburbs,” Arcade Fire
Record of the Year: “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
Song of the Year: “Need You Now,” Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles
Kelley and Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
New Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Bad Romance,” Lady Gaga
Male Pop Vocal Performance: “Just The Way You Are,” Bruno Mars
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group: “Hey Soul Sister,” Train
Pop Vocal Album: “The Fame Monster,” Lady Gaga
Alternative Album: “Brothers,” The Black Keys
Traditional Pop Vocal Album: “Crazy Love,” Michael Buble
Rock Song: “Angry World,” Neil Young
Rock Album: “The Resistance,” Muse
Rock Performance: “Tighten Up,” The Black Keys
Solo Rock Vocal Performance: “Helter Skelter,” Paul McCartney (from
Good Evening New York City)
Hard Rock Performance: “New Fang,” Them Crooked Vultures
R&B Album: “Wake up!” John Legend & The Roots
Contemporary R&B Album: “Raymond V Raymond,” Usher
R&B Song: “Shine,” John Legend & The Roots
R&B Performance: “Soldier Of Love,” Sade
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: “Hang On In There,” John Legend and The Roots
Urban/Alternative Performance: “(Forget) You,” Cee Lo Green
Rap Album: “Recovery,” Eminem
Rap Solo Performance: “Not Afraid,” Eminem
Rap Performance by A Duo Or Group: “On To The Next One,” Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz
Rap Song: “Empire State of Mind,” Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
Rap/Sung Collaboration: “Empire State Of Mind,” Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
Dance Recording: “Only Girl (In The World),” Rihanna
Electronic Dance Album: “La Roux,” La Roux
Musical Show Album: “American Idiot,” (Featuring Green Day)
Traditional World Music Album: “Ali And Toumani,” Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
Contemporary World Music Album: “Throw Down Your Heart, Africa Sessions Part 2,” Bela Fleck
Latin Pop Album: “Paraiso Express,” Alejandro Sanz
Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album: “El Existenial,” Grupo Fantasma.
Tropical Latin Album: Viva La Tradicion, Spanish Harlem Orchestra.
Norteno Album: “Classic,” Intocable.
Banda Album: “Enamorate De Mi,” El Guero y su Banda Centenario.
Latin Jazz Album: “Chucho’s Steps,” Chucho Valdes and The Afro-Cuban Messengers.
Tejano Album: “Recuerdos,” Little Joe y La Familia.
Male Country Vocal Performance: “‘Til Summer Comes Around,” Keith Urban
Female Country Vocal Performance: “The House That Built Me,” Miranda Lambert
Country Album: “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
Country Performance by a Duo or Group: “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
Country Song: “Need You Now,” Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
Country Collaboration With Vocals: “As She’s Walking Away,” Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson
Contemporary Jazz Album: “The Stanley Clarke Band,” The Stanley Clarke Band
Jazz Vocal Album: “Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From >Dee Dee,” Dee Dee Bridgewater
Jazz Instrumental Album: “Moody 4B,” James Moody
Improvised Jazz Solo: “A Change is Gonna Come,” Herbie Hancock
Large Ensemble Jazz Album: “Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard,” Mingus Big Band
Traditional Blues Album: “Joined At The Hip,” Pinetop Perkins & Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith
Contemporary Blues Album: “Living Proof,” Buddy Guy
Traditional Folk Album: “Genuine Negro Jig,” Carolina Chocolate Drops
Contemporary Folk Album: “God Willin’ and The Creek Don’t Rise,” Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs
Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Imagine,” Herbie Hancock and Larry Klein, arrangers (Herbie Hancock, Pink, Seal, Jeff Beck, India.Arie, Konono No 1 & Oumou Sangare)
Pop Instrumental Album: “Take Your Pick,” Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto
Pop Instrumental Performance: “Nessun Dorma,” Jeff Beck
Rock Instrumental Performance: “Hammerhead,” Jeff Beck
Americana Album: “You Are Not Alone,” Mavis Staples
Hawaiian Music Album: “Huana Ke Aloha,” Tia Carrere
Native American Music Album: “2010 Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit’s Dance,”(Various Artists) Derek Mathews, Dr. Lita Mathews & Melonie Mathews, producers (Gathering Of Nations Records)
Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album: “Zydeco Junkie,” Chubby Carrier and The Bayou Swamp Band
Reggae Album: “Before The Dawn,” Buju Banton
Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album: “The Reason,” Diamond Rio
New Age Album: “Miho: Journey To The Mountain,”Paul Winter Consort
Metal Performance: “El Dorado,” Iron Maiden
Country Instrumental Performance: “Hummingbyrd,” Marty Stuart
Musical Album For Children: “Tomorrow’s Children,” Pete Seeger with The Rivertown Kids and Friends
Spoken Word Album For Children: “Julie Andrews’ Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies,” Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Danger Mouse, for Broken Bells
Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: “One Love Club,” David Guetta and Afrojack’s remix of Madonna’s Revolver
Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: “Love God. Love People,” Israel Houghton
Gospel Song: “It’s What I Do,” Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters
Gospel Performance: “Grace,” BeBe and CeCe Winans
Traditional Gospel Album: “Downtown Church,” Patty Griffin
Rock Or Rap Gospel Album: “Hello Hurricane,” Switchfoot
Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: “Still,” BeBe and CeCe Winans
Classical Album: “Verdi: Requiem,” Riccardo Muti, conductor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus
Choral Performance: “Verdi: Requiem” Riccardo Muti, conductor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus
Classical Contemporary Composition: “Michael Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony / Deus Ex Machina,” Giancarlo Guerrero
Classical Producer: David Frost
Orchestral Performance: “Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina,” Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Nashville Symphony
Opera Recording: “Saariaho: L’Amour De Loin,” Kent Nagano, conductor; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Rundfunkchor Berlin
Spoken Word Album: “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook),” Jon Stewart
Comedy Album: “Stark Raving Black,” Lewis Black
Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: “Crazy Heart,” (Various Artists) Stephen Bruton & T Bone Burnett, producers
Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: “Toy Story 3,” Randy Newman, composer
Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: The Weary Kind (From Crazy Heart) Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett, songwriters
Historical Album: The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)
Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists: “Baba Yetu,” Christopher Tin, arranger; Soweto Gospel Choir and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
2008 – Oasis singer Liam Gallagher married his long-term partner, the ex-All Saints singer Nicole Appleton at a civil ceremony in London. The venue, Westminster Register Office, was where Gallagher married his first wife, Patsy Kensit, in 1997.
Oasis musician Liam Gallagher has married his long-term partner, former All Saints singer Nicole Appleton.
The pair married in a Valentine’s Day ceremony at London’s Westminster Registry Office, the same place he married his first wife Patsy Kensit.
A small group of family and friends attended the wedding, but Gallagher’s brother and Oasis bandmate Noel was not among them.
Appleton’s sister and former All Saints member Natalie attended with her husband The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett.
The wedding party reportedly celebrated at Marylebone’s five-star Landmark Hotel.
Gallagher, 35, and Appleton, 33, have been together for eight years and have a son, Gene, 7. Gallagher also has a son, Lennon, 8, with Kensit, and a daughter, Molly, 9, with singer Lisa Moorish.
Appleton is widely credited with calming down Gallagher’s once chaotic life. The singer was a regular tabloid feature during the Nineties for his tangled romantic life, the numerous assault claims against him and his life-time ban from all Cathay Pacific flights, following a flight in which he “disturbed” other passengers.
During their relationship, Appleton has openly spoken of her desire to marry.
“Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married,” she said earlier this year.
Gallagher’s tumultuous 1997 marriage to Kensit lasted three years.
Oasis were at the forefront of the Britpop movement in the 1990s and while Gallagher has had a lower profile in recent years, he remains one of Britain’s best-known musicians.
2007 – winners at the 27th annual Brit Awards at London’s Earls Court included Muse who won Best British Live Act, British Breakthrough Act went to The Fratellis. Winner of the Best International Breakthrough Act was Orson. Take That won the first-ever live vote, when they took home the Best British Single for ‘Patience.’ Arctic Monkeys were named Best British Group, James Morrison was named Best British Male and Amy Winehouse won Best British Female. Justin Timberlake won Best International Male and Nelly Furtado won Best International female. The Killers won Best International Group and Best International Album for Sam’s Town and Oasis won the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.
2006 – Kaiser Chiefs win Best British Group, Best British Rock Act and Best Live Act at the BRIT Awards in London. Best British album is Coldplay’s X&Y. The band’s Chris Martin sparks split rumors by saying, “People are fed up with us and so are we.”
2006 – Willie Nelson chooses Valentine’s Day to release the gay-themed song “Cowboys are Secretly, Frequently (Fond of Each Other).” The country music icon premieres the track on Howard Stern’s Sirius Satellite Radio show as it is being made exclusively available via Apple’s iTunes music store.
2006 – British R&B singer Lynden David Hall dies after a two-year fight with cancer. He is 31.
Lynden David Hall (7 May 1974 – 14 February 2006) was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. Born in Wandsworth, South London, he won the ‘best newcomer’ accolade at the 1998 MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards.
In 1999, he was the first U.K. performer ever voted “Best Male Artist” by the readers of Britain’s Blues & Soul magazine. His debut album, Medicine For My Pain, as well as the singles Do I Qualify and Sexy Cinderella, had an instant appeal to soul fans in the UK and elsewhere, but it was not until his work got the remix treatment that he got his major breakthrough.
Hall appeared in the hit film Love Actually in 2003, where he sang at the wedding of the characters played by Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Two years later, he released his third studio album In Between Jobs on the independent label Random Records.
In October 2003, Hall was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma; he died on 14 February 2006, at the age of 31, from complications resulting from the stem cell transplant he received in January 2005. Lynden was in remission at the time of his death. Lynden is survived by his wife Nikkie Hall and his sister Natalie Hall who is currently reading Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Shortly before his death, whilst in hospital in November 2005, Lynden and Nikkie achieved their wish to help others suffering by putting on the hugely successful Lynden’s Wish concert at London’s Jazz Cafe. For the first time ever, selected black British music artists came together in Lynden’s honour to raise money for two charities close to Lynden’s heart:The African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust
On 23 May 2006, a Lynden’s Wish memorial celebration was held in his honour at The Kensington Roof Gardens. Two white doves were released as a symbol of peace, accompanied by the London Community Gospel Choir who sang “All You Need is Love” as performed by Hall in the film Love Actually. Many of the artists who performed at last years concerts also performed tributes including Omar, Roachford and Don-E. All proceeds were donated to The African Caribbean Leulaemia Trust.
It was reported that Hall’s wife was working with his manager on the release of a live album tentatively scheduled for 2007.
Discography
Albums
* 2005: In Between Jobs
* 2000: The Other Side
* 1998: Medicine 4 My Pain (Re-Release)
* 1997: Medicine 4 My Pain
2005 – Kerrang! magazine announced the results of its readers’ poll for the best British rock albums ever. The Top 10 were: No.1, Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath; No.2, Iron Maiden’s Number Of The Beast; No.3 Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks; No. 4, Led Zeppelin’s IV; No.5, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid; No.6, Muse’s Absolution; No.7, The Clash’s London Calling; No.8, Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack; No.9, Iron Maiden’s Iron Maiden and No.10, Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible.
2004 – Dave Holland, former drummer with Judas Priest was jailed for eight years for indecent assault and the attempted rape of a 17-year old boy. The youth, who had learning difficulties, had been taking drum lessons from Holland.
2003 – Australian police uncover Beatles album art and reel-to-reel tapes in a raid. All the material appeared to be from the White Album and Abbey Road sessions, which were stolen from the band’s London studio in 1969.
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