The Grammy 2007

oh it breaks my heart that James Blunt did not get the "Song of the Year" for the soul - touching song "You are beutiful". i remember the first time that i heard it... i stopped dead in my track.... what a voice, what lyrics and what music. it was a complete package deal. i dont say that the dixie chicks were not good enough, but tell me honestly, can u really get that tune out of your head. when james blunt sings "You are beutiful..... its ture" , u really feel that way....

the winners taking it all were ---
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
* Taking The Long Way, Dixie Chicks
RECORD OF THE YEAR
* Not Ready To Make Nice, Dixie Chicks

SONG OF THE YEAR (nominated songwriters)
* Not Ready to Make Nice, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison & Dan Wilson

BEST NEW ARTIST
* Carrie Underwood

BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
* John Legend, Heaven

BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
* Mary J. Blige, Be Without You

BEST R&B ALBUM
* The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR

GROUP WITH VOCAL
* The Black Eyed Peas, My Humps

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
* Continuum, John Mayer, BEST ROCK ALBUM


BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL
* Dani California, Red Hot Chili Peppers

BEST ROCK SOLO VOCAL PERFORMANCE* Bob Dylan, Someday Baby

BEST RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE
* What You Know, T.I.

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
* My Love, Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.

BEST RAP ALBUM
* Release Therapy, Ludacris

BEST COUNTRY SONG (nominated songwriters)
* Jesus, Take The Wheel, Brett James, Hillary Lindsey & Gordie Sampson, songwriters

BEST COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP
* Dixie Chicks, Not Ready to Make Nice

BEST COUNTRY COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS
* Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles, Who Says You Can't Go Home

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
* Taking The Long Way, Dixie Chicks

BEST GOSPEL PERFORMANCE
* Yolanda Adams, Victory

"MY GRAMMY MOMENT" WINNER
* Robyn Troup


Anyways, some Grammy Facts on the go.... will mention as much as i can manage by the time the tea i have place on the stove gets done... :)

• The first Grammy awards ceremony was held in 1958
• Grammy is short for Gramophone, which was a trademarked name for a phonograph, or record player, dating from 1887.
• The first Album of the Year Grammy was awarded to "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini
• The only artist to refuse a Grammy was Sinead O'Connor, who won the Best Alternative Music Performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got," in 1990.
• The only artist to have a Grammy revoked was Milli Vanilli for Best New Artist in 1989. They beat out Soul II Soul, Neneh Cherry, Indigo Girls and Tone Loc
• Michael Jackson was nominated for 12 Grammys in 1984, setting a record that stood until Babyface tied it in 1992
• Ella Fitzgerald won 13 Grammys
• The Beatles never won a Record of the Year Grammy
• Elvis Presley never won a Grammy in a nonreligious music category
• Paul Simon (1970), Carol King (1971), Christopher Cross (1980) and Eric Clapton (1992) are the only four artists to have won Grammys for Record, Album and Song of the Year in the same year
• The youngest person ever to win a major Grammy was Leann Rimes, who was 14 when she won Best New Artist in 1997
• In 1975, Natalie Cole became the first African-American to win the Best New Artist Grammy
• President Bill Clinton and Senator Hilary Clinton have won Grammys for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical album. His was in 2004 for "My Life;" hers was in 1996 for "It Takes a Village
• Grammy awards are determined by approximately 10,000 members of the Recording Academy
• Mary J. Blige thanked 55 people -- including God, Jesus, her three children, countless record-company executives and the tape-delivery guy -- and spoke for nearly two minutes in accepting the 2007 Grammy for R&B album of the year

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Anna Nicole Smith dies

Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday at a South Florida hospital after being discovered unconscious in her hotel room.

The reality TV star, Playboy Playmate and former Guess model was 39.
She checked into the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on Monday with her lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern. Smith's private nurse called hotel workers at 1:38 p.m. and security officials went to the room to find her dead.

Smith was known as much for her sometimes-turbulent life off-camera as she was for her tabloid celebrity. The former topless dancer in Houston made her first appearance in Playboy in 1992, was named Playmate of the Year in 1993, and appeared in Guess jeans ads and movies.
In 2002, Smith launched a reality television program, "The Anna Nicole Show," on the E! Entertainment network. At one point, it was the network's highest-rated program.
She shocked people by marrying 89-year-old Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall II, who had an estate valued at $1.6 billion. He died the next year, and Smith waged a 12-year feud with Marshall's son, E. Pierce Marshall, over the inheritance

its said that death of Smith's son, Daniel, last year left her deeply saddened, a sadness she hid from everyone. Her daughter, Dannielynn Hope, who Smith gave birth to a few days before Daniel, 20, died,is now without a mother.

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