The Memorable Moments That Occurred At The Grammy Awards And Who Set A Record For Most Awards Handed Out To A Female
The Grammy Awards is an awards show that began in 1958 and has been broadcast on TV since 1971 handing out awards for achievements in the music industry. The name, Grammy awards used to be called the gold gramophone trophies. This year, the 52nd Grammy Awards show took place in Los Angeles and was 3 1/2 hours long with several awards and live performances such as Lady Gaga and Elton John playing dueling pianos with piano lamps singing a combination of Speechless and Your Song to the crowd. Another amazing performance was by Pink who sang “Glitter in the Air” while performing an impressive aerial acrobatics stunt with silk scarves and wonderful House of Troy lighting.
Beyonce Knowles made Grammy Award history at the 2010 Grammy Awards by winning the most Grammy’s for a female in one year. She won 6 awards for various things such as song of the year and best R&B female vocal. Her song Single Ladies was a enormous hit that got her several of her awards as well as her album from which the song was on. Despite her success at the awards show, Beyonce seemed genuinely surprised to receive such huge recognition and especially thanked her spouse, Jay Z, another famous musician. Her career started out as a singer in the girl group called Destiny’s Child and really took off once she went out on her won with a solo career.
The young 20 year old country singer and songwriter, Taylor Swift was the other big winner at the 2010 Grammy Awards winning the top prize of Album of the year for her Fearless album. She has had a very successful year winning many awards and the Grammy’s proved to be no exception getting her 4 Grammy’s to bring home. Besides winning her first Grammy awards, Swift performed a duet with one of her singing idols, Stevie Nicks. The future certainly appears promising for the young lady from Nashville.
Another group from Nashville, Tennessee that surprised many at the Grammy Awards was the family band named Kings of Leon that took home three awards including the record of the year beating out rock heavyweights, U2 and the Dave Matthews band. Another country band took home a big award for being named the best new artist was given to the Zac Brown band. It seems like the country singers and those from Nashville really cleaned up at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
One highlight of the evening was during a special Michael Jackson tribute where they showed a video he had made that was to be performed on his tour that he was preparing for at the time of his untimely passing. It was done in 3D and singers, Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood all sang with it. Jackson’s daughter and son, Paris and Prince accepted a lifetime achievement award on behalf of their Dad which moved the entire crowd.
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