Showing posts with label Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2025

Janet Jackson, Young MC win Grammys 1990



Janet Jackson's multiple award-winning album Rhythm Nation 1814 continued to garner more honors at the 32nd annual Grammy ceremony held February 21, 1990.  She took home the Grammy for Best Music Video, Long Form, with Aris McGarry (video producer), Johnathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (video producers and directors), and Dominic Sena (video director)

Young MC won Best Rap Performance for his Bust a Move. From this point on, the category was split into Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.  These two were combined again in 2012 and reinstated as the Award for Best Rap Performance.  

Peter Schickele won Best Comedy Recording for his P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults.  

Nat King Cole and Paul McCartney were each awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire was nominated for Record of the Year, but lost to Bette Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings.

Friday, September 8, 2023

Patsy Cline, country & western superstar, born 1932


Mega-star Patsy Cline, born September 8, 1932 in Winchester, Virginia, is one of the most influential vocalists and one of the most successful country artists ever.  She began performing on a radio station when she was fifteen, which led to more appearances.  She made her first national television appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, where she performed Walkin' After Midnight, her first big hit.

Her first single to reach #1 was I Fall to Pieces in 1961. 

She was killed in a plane crash in 1963.  

In 1973, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the first female artist to be included. In 1995, Cline received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.  Her hits I Fall to Pieces and Crazy have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame,