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21 unusual facts about Grammy Award


Allentown Ambassadors

Grammy Award winning recording artist John Mayer performed at the park during the Ambassadors final season.

Asian-American jazz

In 2000, Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance for their recording of Ellington-Strayhorn's Far East Suite.

Café Racers

The song "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is" was included on the chart-topping, six times Platinum Flashdance soundtrack which received a Grammy Award for Best Album Of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture at 26th Annual Grammy Awards.

Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording was presented from 1976 to 1983.

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring was awarded at the Grammy Awards of 1973 for music released in the previous year.

Haitian hip hop

The most well-known exports of Haitian hip hop are two members of the legendary Grammy Award-winning hip hop group, the Fugees, Wyclef Jean and his cousin Pras Michel (a.k.a. Pras).

Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958

The song spent five weeks at the top of the US Singles Chart, was later named the Billboard Year-End number one single for 1958, and won two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Kalmar Nyckel

The piece was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003, following release of a recording by the German orchestra Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

Miriam Pirazzini

In 1962, her recording of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly won a Grammy Award.

My Singing Monsters

In July 2013, Big Blue Bubble announced that they had collaborated with Grammy Award-winning artist Kristian Bush from American country music duo Sugarland to create a new character, the Shugabush.

Palabras del Silencio

This album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Pop Album.

Quién como tú

This material was nominated to the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in 1991, but lost to José Feliciano's ¿Por Qué Te Tengo Que Olvidar?

Skip Scarborough

Skip Scarborough (November 26, 1944 – July 3, 2003) was a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, best known for romantic ballads.

He co-wrote "Giving You the Best That I Got" which won a Grammy Award in 1988 for Best R&B Song.

Slab Fork, West Virginia

Slab Fork is the birthplace of Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Bill Withers, who wrote and recorded popular songs such as "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean on Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Use Me" and "Lovely Day".

Sobrevivir

Tañón was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for this release, which peaked within the Top 20 in the Billboard Top Latin Albums on its debut week.

Song for Chico

In 2009, the album won O'Farrill and the group the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.

The Missing White House Tapes

In 1974 it was expanded into an album, which was subsequently nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Comedy Recording of the year.

The Rebirth

Bobby was especially honored to work with Grammy Award-winner Raphael Saadiq, who produced "Just Me & You" for the project, which covers Saadiq's 1991 hit "Just Me and You."

Vasanta Habba

Performances in this edition of Vasanta Habba included a concert on the Mohan Veena by Grammy Award winner, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, fusion music by Taufiq Querishi and qawwali by the Ateeq Hussain Khan Warsi brothers.

Vocal jazz

Blinded shortly after birth by a hospital complication, Schuur's 3½ octave range has earned her a place playing with the Count Basie Orchestra, filling the shoes Billie Holiday left behind, for which she won a Grammy Award.


Abigail Washburn

In 2005, Washburn returned to China with a group called the Sparrow Quartet, composed of Sollee, Fleck and Grammy Award nominated fiddler Casey Driessen.

Alan Dell

He won a 1983 Grammy Award in the Best Historical Album category for The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions - Vols.

Anise K

His professional breakthrough occurred in 2006 when Anise moved to Los Angeles and was working alongside the Three time Grammy Award winning producer KC Porter.

Anousheh Khalili

She is known for providing vocal talent and appearing in the videos for Deep Dish's "Flashdance" and "Say Hello," the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 in the Best Dance Recording category, and Sharam's "Fun".

Awards and nominations received by Justice

Justice's debut album, †, was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Electronic/Dance Album" and it was also nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Prize, but lost to The Reminder by Feist.

Bernie Grundman

The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan and Brian Gardner, mastered 37 projects which received Grammy Award nominations in 2005.

Chris Stapleton

As a member of The SteelDrivers, Stapleton earned three Grammy Award nominations including "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for the song "Where Rainbows Never Die" and "Best Bluegrass Album," and won an International Bluegrass Music Association Award for "Emerging Artist of the Year." He has won six ASCAP Awards and has contributed to the soundtracks of several feature films including "Cars 2" and "Valentine’s Day."

Cleveland Chamber Symphony

In 2007, the group won a Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) category, for its recording of Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques conducted by John McLaughlin Williams with pianist Angelin Chang.

D.O.E.

Timbaland signed D.O.E. to his new label in 2006, however he sat on the sidelines for a majority of the year while Timbaland focused his efforts on Nelly Furtado's chart-topping multi-platinum album Loose, and Justin Timberlake's Grammy Award-winning FutureSex/LoveSounds.

Elliot Scheiner

Scheiner has received 24 Grammy Award nominations, 7 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, two Emmy Award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, and the documentary film History of the Eagles, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of Fame inductee, and recipient of the Surround Pioneer Award.

Fine Arts Quartet

The Quartet's Fauré quintets CD on Naxos with pianist Cristina Ortiz was among the five recordings for which music producer Steven Epstein won a Grammy Award in 2010 ("Producer of the Year, Classical").

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

In 1990, composer Steve Reich's piece, Different Trains, which incorporated soundbites from the Fortunoff testimonies, won a Grammy Award for best contemporary classical composition.

Frank Filipetti

Filipetti also recorded and mixed albums for Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams, George Michael, 10,000 Maniacs, Lauren Kinhan, and James Taylor, whose Hourglass Filipetti produced, engineered and mixed, winning Grammy Awards in 1998 for Best Engineered Album and Best Pop Album.

Give It All You Got

The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1981 in the category Best Instrumental Composition, losing out to composer John Williams and his score to the film The Empire Strikes Back.

I Don't Care Anymore

The song gave Collins his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1984.

Ivan Hampden, Jr.

Hampden was recognized for his participation as Arranger/Musican/Programmer on two Grammy Award-winning recordings at the 2004 Grammy Awards: Best R&B Album "Dance With My Father" performed by Luther Vandross, and Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocals "The Closer I Get to You" performed by Beyoncé and Luther Vandross.

Jean-Pascal Beintus

A recording of Jean-Pascal Beintus' "Wolf Tracks" featuring Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren as narrators received a 2004 Grammy Award.

Jenna Elizabeth

Elizabeth wrote and directed a film titled The Third Degree starring Brady Corbet (Funny Games, Mysterious Skin, Thirteen) and original scoring by Grammy Award winning producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, The Strokes).

John Leventhal

John Leventhal (born December 18, 1952) is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright III, The Wreckers and many others.

July for Kings

In 1998 Grammy award winning New York record producer/engineer Ken Lewis took notice of the band and began working with them regularly.

Keep Me on Your Side

Keep Me on Your Side was mastered in New York by respected recording engineer Ted Jensen, who is best known for his work with Norah Jones' 2003 Grammy award winning album Come Away with Me, Simple Plan and is also signed up to do Metallica's upcoming 9th studio album.

Keeping Time

The album which was released on Casablanca Records in 1978 includes Jabara's song "Trapped in a Stairway" from the movie Thank God It's Friday, his own version of the Grammy Award winning "Last Dance" (originally recorded by Donna Summer) as well as the duets "Something's Missing" (with Summer) and "Take Good Care of My Baby / What's a Girl to Do" (with Pattie Brooks).

L.A. Confidential presents: Knoc-turn'al

Two singles released from the extended play included the Grammy Award–nominated "The Knoc," and the Kanye West–produced "Muzik", which appeared on the Jason Statham film, "The Transporter".

Mark Zubek

Zubek has produced, written, recorded and performed with Grammy-winning jazz singer Betty Carter, Jen Chapin, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Seamus Blake, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Avishai Cohen, Bill Dillon, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin, Bill Stewart, as well as MapleMusic artist Hilary Weaver.

Me Estoy Enamorando

This album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Pop Album at the Grammy Awards of 1998, losing to Romances by Luis Miguel.

Mille Lune Mille Onde

The song was written by Francesco Sartori, Claudio Corradini and Lucio Quarantotto, the writers of Bocelli's "Con te partirò" and "Canto della Terra", and by multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster, and is among Bocelli's most popular and well-known songs.

Porfirio Piña

Between January 2001 and May 2002, Porfirio joined Palm Pictures/Ryko and later Latino Music Corp where he was the Marketing Director, developing strategic sales, marketing and promotion plans for Carlos Manuel y Su Clan (Palm/Ryko), Fernando Villalona (LARAS & NARAS GRAMMY Nominee), Felix D'Oleo (LARAS GRAMMY Nominee), Angelito Villalona, Ramón Orlando and Swing Divino amongst others.

Roma Ryan

Ryan's lyrics for Enya have won Grammy Awards; the song "May It Be" for the The Lord of the Rings film The Fellowship of the Ring was nominated for an Oscar.

Santa Claus is a Black Man

Vann would later become better known for co-writing "Power of Love/Love Power" with Luther Vandross in 1991, for which he won a Grammy Award.

Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture

The album was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (lost to the score of Moulin Rouge!) and the Grammy Award for "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" (lost to the score of O Brother, Where Art Thou?).

Something Beautiful Remains

"Something Beautiful Remains" is a single released by Grammy Award winning singer Tina Turner in 1996 on Tina's Wildest Dreams album.

Stacy Lee

She continued to travel and perform with artists like Tonic, Grammy Award winning artist Shawn Colvin, and various female artists.

Stefano Palatchi

He received a Latin Grammy Award for Tomás Bretón's zarzuela, La Dolores and was nominated for another Latin Grammy for Ruperto Chapí's Margarita la Tornera and a Grammy Award for El gato con botas, by Xavier Montsalvatge.

The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Pop Vocal Album.

The Belle of Amherst

Harris, who portrayed fifteen different characters in the play, won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, and won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording.

The Blackwood Brothers

They have won eight Grammy Awards, four Dove Awards, and have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Hall Of Fame, the Southern Gospel Music Association (SGMA) Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

The Blueprint Dives

Blueprint was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannprisen, and voted one of the Top 5 metal albums of the year by the readers of one of the largest newspapers in Norway, Dagbladet.

The Legend of Jimi Lazer

He promoted such acts as Phil Keaggy and Second Chapter of Acts, and Freedom 88, a three-day alternative Gospel Music festival at Bingeman Park in Kitchener, Ontario with Steve Taylor, Adam Again, and the Grammy-award winning band The Choir.

Thee Attacks

Grammy Award-winning producer Liam Watson has produced their debut album Thats Mister Attack to you in 2010 and has also had his hands on their second album Dirty Sheets released from the Record label Crunchy Frog in 2012.

Toto IV

Toto IV is the Triple Platinum, Grammy Award-winning fourth studio album by American Rock band Toto released in 1982 (see 1982 in music).

Vestal Goodman

The Happy Goodmans won multiple Grammy and Dove awards, charted 15 #1 hit songs including “I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ For My Journey Now," and performed more than 3,500 concerts, including performing at the White House for President Jimmy Carter in 1979.