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Voices At The Grammies

Indian voices at the Grammies

February 05, 2009

Louis Banks

Three Indian musicians will vie for a gramophone when the Grammy awards are announced on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Leading jazz musician Louis Banks has earned two Grammy nominations in the Best Contemporary Jazz Album category for his work in the albums Miles From India and Floating Point. This category is for albums containing 51 percent or more playing time of instrumental tracks.

Miles from India is a tribute to the founder of modern jazz Miles Davies. According to Banks, it is 'an Indian tribute to the maestro who was simply in love with Indian music.' In Floating Point, Banks plays with guitarist John McLaughlin.

In the Best Traditional World Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental) category, two Indians -- Kolkata-based Debashish Bhattacharya and Hindustani classical vocalist Lakshmi Shankar -- stand nominees. While Bhattacharya has been nominated for his album Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey, Shankar has been shortlisted for her album Dancing In The Light.

Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey is a musical journey through the centuries of guitar playing in India where each raga explores influences ranging from gypsy to Sufi.

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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

#1 07 Feb 2009 01:08

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Re: Voices At The Grammies

February 5, 2009

Neil Diamond, B.B. King, John Mayer, M.I.A., Smokey Robinson, Keith Urban, and Stevie Wonder added to 51st GRAMMY lineup

Two-time GRAMMY winner and current GRAMMY nominee Terence Blanchard, GRAMMY winner and 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year Neil Diamond, current nominee M.I.A., GRAMMY winner Smokey Robinson, current nominee Robin Thicke, 2009 Recording Academy Trustees Award recipient Allen Toussaint, 25-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Stevie Wonder, and a tribute to Bo Diddley featuring current nominees Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Mayer, and Keith Urban are the next round of performers announced for the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards.

They join previously announced performers Adele; Chris Brown; Kenny Chesney; Coldplay; Estelle and Kanye West; Jennifer Hudson; Jonas Brothers; Kid Rock; Lil Wayne; Paul McCartney (with special guest drummer Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters); Katy Perry; Robert Plant & Alison Krauss; Radiohead; Rihanna; Sugarland; Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift; T.I. and Justin Timberlake; U2; Carrie Underwood; a Four Tops Tribute featuring Abdul "Duke" Fakir (2009 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and original member of the Four Tops), Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo; and Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, T.I., and Kanye West in a special performance of their hit single "Swagga Like Us."

Actress Kate Beckinsale, a reunited Blink-182, eight-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Natalie Cole, GRAMMY winner Sean "Diddy" Combs, actress/musician Zooey Deschanel, Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, three-time GRAMMY winner Green Day, actor Dwayne Johnson, five-time GRAMMY winner John Legend, current GRAMMY nominee Leona Lewis, two-time GRAMMY winner LL Cool J, current GRAMMY nominee Jason Mraz, actress Emily Procter from "CSI: Miami," two-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee LeAnn Rimes, and three-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee will.i.am are the latest presenters announced for Music's Biggest Night.

Previously announced presenters include actor Simon Baker from CBS' "The Mentalist," actor/musician Jack Black, nine-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Sheryl Crow, current three-time GRAMMY nominee Duffy, talk show host Craig Ferguson from CBS' "The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson," nine-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Al Green, current nominee Josh Groban, three-time GRAMMY-winning jazz musician and current nominee Charlie Haden, actor Samuel L. Jackson, actor Jay Mohr from CBS' "Gary Unmarried," Academy Award-winning actress and current GRAMMY nominee Gwyneth Paltrow, GRAMMY winner Queen Latifah, and rapper and current nominee T-Pain.

Mayer has five nominations: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for "Say"; Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for "Lesson Learned" with Alicia Keys; Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for "Gravity"; and Best Long Form Music Video for Where The Light Is — Live In Los Angeles.

Lewis and will.i.am each are up for three awards. Lewis is nominated for Record Of The Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Bleeding Love," and Best Pop Vocal Album for Spirit. Will.i.am has nods for Song Of The Year for "American Boy" with Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray, & Kanye West, Best Urban/Alternative Performance for "Be OK" with Chrissette Michele, and Producer Of The Year.

Mraz has two nods for Song Of The Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "I'm Yours."

Blanchard, Cole, Guy, King, M.I.A., Rimes, Thicke, Urban, and Wonder each are nominated. Blanchard has a nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for "Be-Bop." Guy and King each have a nod in the Best Traditional Blues Album category — Guy for Skin Deep and King for One Kind Favor. M.I.A. garnered a nomination in Record Of The Year for "Paper Planes." Rimes is nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "What I Cannot Change." Thicke earned a nod for Album Of The Year as an artist and producer on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. Urban is up for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "Let The Wind Chase You" with Trisha Yearwood. Wonder has a nomination for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for "Never Give You Up" with Raphael Saadiq and CJ Hilton.

As previously announced, this year's "My GRAMMY Moment" segment on the telecast gives music fans an opportunity to virtually share music's biggest stage with current GRAMMY nominee Katy Perry. Produced in partnership with CBS.com, music fans can upload a 30- to 60-second video of themselves singing along to a portion of Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" to www.cbs.com/grammys through Feb. 6. Videos will be voted on by fans and the public at-large, and the most popular videos will be shown as part of Perry's performance on Music's Biggest Night.

Additionally, The 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards Pre-Telecast ceremony will take place from 1–3:45 p.m. PT at the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be streamed live internationally. Hosting and performing at the Pre-Telecast will be current GRAMMY nominees Wayne Brady and Tia Carrere, with additional live performances by Latin GRAMMY-winning folk/jazz singer and current nominee Lila Downs, GRAMMY-winning classical artist and current nominee Hilary Hahn, and current GRAMMY nominee Heavy D. Presenting GRAMMY Awards in nearly 100 categories will be four-time GRAMMY-winning gospel singer Yolanda Adams, producer/host of the syndicated "Millennium Of Music" radio show Robert Aubry Davis, GRAMMY-winning songwriter/producer Lamont Dozier, GRAMMY-winning children's folk artists Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, comedian Alex Raymundo, and actor Blair Underwood. The live stream of the Pre-Telecast will remain on GRAMMY.com for on-demand viewing for 30 days following the event.

The 51st GRAMMY Awards will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 8, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The show also will be supported on radio via Westwood One worldwide, and covered online at GRAMMY.com and CBS.com, on Twitter at "theGRAMMYs," on Facebook at "The Recording Academy," on YouTube at "51stGRAMMYs," and on Last.fm at "the51stgrammys."

____________
"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

#2 07 Feb 2009 01:23

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Re: Voices At The Grammies

List of 51st Grammy Awards winners

Associated Press

Monday, February 09, 2009 8:35 AM (Los Angeles)

A partial list of winners at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards:

- Contemporary World Music Album: Global Drum Project, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo (Shout! Factory)

- Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Rich Woman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, track from "Raising Sand" (Rounder)

- Song of the Year: Viva La Vida, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay), track from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends(Capitol Records; Publishers: Universal Music-MGB Songs)

- Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Stay, Sugarland, track from Enjoy the Ride (Mercury Records)

- R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson (Arista Records)

- Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost

- Female Pop Vocal Performance: Chasing Pavements, Adele, track from 19 (Columbia/XL)

- Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Still Unforgettable, Natalie Cole (DMI Records)

- Pop Vocal Album: Rockferry, Duffy (Mercury)

- Pop Instrumental Performance: I Dreamed There Was No War, Eagles, track from Long Road Out of Eden (Eagles Recording Company)

- Pop Instrumental Album: Jingle All the Way, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (Rounder)

- Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Viva La Vida, Coldplay, track from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Capitol Records)

- Alternative Music Album: In Rainbows, Radiohead (TBD Records)

- Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Gravity, John Mayer, track from Where The Light Is: Live in Los Angeles (Columbia)

- Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: S** on Fire, Kings of Leon (RCA Records)

- Hard Rock Performance: Wax Simulacra, The Mars Volta (Universal Motown)

- Metal Performance: My Apocalypse, Metallica, track from Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

- Rock Instrumental Performance: Peaches En Regalia,Zappa Plays Zappa featuring Steve Vai and Napoleon Murphy Brock (Strobosonic/Razor & Tie Entertainment)

- Rock Song: Girls in Their Summer Clothes, Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen), track from Magic (Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen)

- Rap Solo Performance: A Milli, Lil Wayne, track from Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal Motown)

- Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Swagga Like Us, Jay-Z and T.I. featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne (Roc-A-Fella/Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

- Rap/Sung Collaboration: American Boy, Estelle featuring Kanye West, track from Shine (Homeschool/Atlantic)

- Rap Song: Lollipop, Dwayne Carter, Darius Harrison, James Scheffer, Stephen Garrett and Rex Zamor, songwriters (Lil Wayne featuring Static Major), track from Tha Carter III (Cash Money/Universal Motown; Publishers: Young Money Publishing/Warner-Chappell Music, Herbalicious Music/Blackfountain Music/EMI-April Music, JimiPub Music/EMI Blackwood, Three Nails and A Crown Publishing/Roynet Music)

- Country Song: Stay, Jennifer Nettles, songwriter (Sugarland), track from Enjoy the Ride (Mercury Records; Publisher: Jennifer Nettles Publishing)

- Country Album: Troubadour, George Strait (MCA Nashville)

- Female Country Vocal Performance: Last Name, Carrie Underwood, track from Carnival Ride (19/Arista/Arista Nashville)

- Male Country Vocal Performance: Letter to Me, Brad Paisley, track from 5th Gear (Arista Nashville)

- Country Collaboration with Vocals: Killing the Blues, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, track from Raising Sand (Rounder)

- Country Instrumental Performance: Cluster Pluck, Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner (Arista Nashville)

- R&B Song: Miss Independent, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen and Shaffer Smith, songwriters (Ne-Yo), track from Year of the Gentleman (Def Jam/Compound; Publishers: Pen in the Ground Publishing, Universal Music-Z Tunes)

- Contemporary R&B Album: Growing Pains, Mary J. Blige (Geffen)

- Female R&B Vocal Solo: Superwoman, Alicia Keys, track from As I Am (J Records)

- Male R&B Vocal Solo: Miss Independent, Ne-Yo, track from Year of the Gentleman (Def Jam/Compound)

- R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Stay With Me (By the Sea), Al Green featuring John Legend, track from "Lay It Down" (Blue Note Records)

- Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: You've Got the Love I Need, Al Green featuring Anthony Hamilton, track from Lay It Down (Blue Note Records)

- Urban/Alternative Performance: Be OK, Chrisette Michele featuring will.i.am, track from I Am (Def Jam)

- Dance Recording: Harder Better Faster Stronger, Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, producers; Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixers; track from Alive 2007 (Virgin Records)

- Electronic Dance Album: Alive 2007, Daft Punk (Virgin Records)

- Bluegrass Album: Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder (Skaggs Family Records)

- Traditional Blues Album: One Kind Favor, B.B. King (Geffen Records)

- Contemporary Blues Album: City That Care Forgot, Dr. John and The Lower 911 (429 Records)

- New Age Album: Peace Time, Jack DeJohnette (Golden Beams/Kindred Rhythm)

- Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy in Brasil, Randy Brecker (MAMA Records)

- Jazz Vocal Album: Loverly, Cassandra Wilson (Blue Note)

- Jazz Instrumental Solo: BE-BOP, Terence Blanchard, soloist; track from Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars) (Monterey Jazz Festival Records)

- Jazz Instrumental Album Individual or Group: The New Crystal Silence, Chick Corea and Gary Burton (Concord Records)

- Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Planet Arts Recordings)

- Latin Jazz Album: Song for Chico, Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (Zoho)

- Latin Pop Album: La Vida ... Es Un Ratico, Juanes (Universal Music Latino)

- Latin Rock or Alternative Album: 45, Jaguares (EMI Music)

- Latin Urban Album: Los Extraterrestres, Wisin y Yandel (Machete Music)

- Tropical Latin Album: Senor Bachata, Jose Feliciano (Universal Music Latino)

- Regional Mexican Album: Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas: Musica Ranchera, Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) in a tie with Canciones de Amor, Mariachi Divas (Shea Records/East Side Records)

- Traditional Folk Album: At 89, Pete Seeger (Appleseed Recordings)

- Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Rounder Records)

- Native American Music Album: Come to Me Great Mystery: Native American Healing Songs, (Various Artists) Tom Wasinger, producer (Silver Wave Records)

- Hawaiian Music Album: Ikena,Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho (Daniel Ho Creations)

- Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, BeauSoleil and Michael Doucet (MunckMix)

- Engineering Album, Classical: Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago, David Frost, Tom Lazarus and Christopher Willis, engineers (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Chicago Symphony Orchestra) (CSO Resound)

- Reggae Album: Jah Is Real, Burning Spear (Burning Music Production)

- Traditional World Music Album: Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Heads Up International)

- Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno, (various artists) Peter Afterman, Jason Reitman and Margaret Yen, producers (Fox Music/Rhino)

- Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Television or Other Visual Media: The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, composers (Warner Sunset/Warner Bros.)

- Polka Album: Let the Whole World Sing, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Rounder)

- Gospel Performance: Get Up, Mary Mary; track from The Sound (Columbia)

- Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: The Fight of My Life, Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Zomba Gospel)

- Classical Album: Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich and Robert Worle; Los Angeles Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra) (EuroArts)

- Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Down to Earth, (WALL-E) Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, songwriters (Peter Gabriel) (Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publishers: Walt Disney Music, Wonderland Music/Pixar Talking Pictures/Pixar Music)

____________
"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

#3 15 Feb 2009 01:21

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