February, 8th was the day of the music grammy awards and it was the day for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, with the album “raising sand”, who won 5 grammys including album of the year. We have been able to watch a lot of performances during this night like U2 with their new single "get on your boots", Lil Wayne and Allen Toussaint paying tribute to New Orleans, Neil Diamond singing "sweet caroline", Radiohead performing with the University of Southern California marching band, Jay-Z joining Coldplay, a tribute to the Four Tops and Jennifer Hudson singing "you pulled me through" until crying – her self-titled disc won best R&B album. |
More awards:
- Lil Wayne won three awards, including best rap album for "tha carter III”
- Bruce Springsteen won for best rock song with "girls in their summer clothes"
- Coldplay won three awards, including best rock album for "viva la vida or death and all his friends"
- T. Bone Burnett won the record of the year award and said "good things happen out of nowhere".
But this celebration wouldn’t be completed with some other performances:
- Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus singing a duet of Swift's "fifteen"
- Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl, on drums, sang the Beatles classic about a “girl who was just 17"
- An impressive meeting of singers (Stevie Wonder, Jonas Brothers, M.I.A., Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and T.I.) to perform a T.I.’s song "swagger like us"
And one big surprise - Rihanna and Chris Brown, both nominated for awards and scheduled to perform, were absent after the Los Angeles Police Department announced that Brown was the subject of an investigation into a domestic violence.
Brown turned himself into police late sunday and was released after posting bail - police suspected him to have made a criminal threat to Rihanna.
In fact, Chris hit her until that her face is marked with bruises but also split lips, nose in blood and bites on arms and fingers. The police itself declared those wounds “horrible” and she confirmed that Chris did it with his fists and not with a weapon.
After getting out of the hospital, Rihanna cancelled her concert at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and her birthday party at New York which should be celebrated on the february 20th for her 21. I wish her a quick recovery and to come back soon on the scene more beautiful than before and I think I speak for all her fans.
To fill in this absence, the Recording Academy hastily put together a group of singers (Al Green, Justin Timberlake, Boyz II Men and Keith Urban) to perform "let's stay together".
The other winners are also:
- Rick Rubin for producer of the year
- Adele for best female pop vocal performance "chasing pavements"
- Duffy for best pop vocal album "rockferry"
- Radiohead for best alternative music album "in rainbows"
- Metallica for best metal performance “my apocalypse"
- Al Green for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals and best traditional R&B vocal performance
- Daft Punk for best dance recording and best electronic dance album
- George Strait for best country album "troubadour"
- B.B. King for best traditional blues album "one kind favor".
February 10, 2009
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