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2013 Grammy Awards
By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
The 2013 Grammys
Spread Out Out The
Giving This Year!
By Rych McCain, twitter@rychmccain, Facebook
Photos STC/CBS
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| Grammy Host LL Cool J |
The 2013 Grammy Awards were hosted again by Actor/Rapper LL Cool J. After a couple of years of having one artist or group basically
dominating the awards, this year’s award recipients were pretty evenly spread
out amongst the nominees. In addition,
the Recording Academy handed out its top awards to a whole new generation of
winners Sunday night at the 55th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
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| L-R: Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney of The Black keys |
The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach took home four awards, including producer of the year, and
three with his bandmate Patrick Carney, including best rock performance and rock song for "Lonely
Boy" and best rock album for "El Camino.” This is amazing,"
Auerbach said, before thanking everyone in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.
Newcomer group “Fun” got everyone’s
attention performing "Carry On" in a simulated downpour, afterwards
winning song of the year for their smash "We Are Young," and best new
artist.
Mumford and Sons took home the big enchilada, album of the year, for
"Babel," The group’s lead singer Marcus Mumford expressed shock
because in his words said "The Black Keys have been sweeping up all day
and deservedly so." The band's only other win from its six nominations was
for best long form video.
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| L-R: Andrew Dost, Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff, Fun |
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| Mumford and Sons |
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| L-R: Jay-z and Kanye West |
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| Frank Ocean |
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| Gotye and Kimbra |
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| Skrillex |
Skrillex also won three, sweeping his dance music nominations.
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| Kelly Clarkson |
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| The Dream |
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| Adele |
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| L-R; Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z |
The show was
sprinkled with tributes to the late, jazz piano great, Dave Brubeck lead by
master jazz pianist Chick Correa and the late great reggae king Bob Marley led
by Bruno Mars who was joined by Sting, Rihanna and members of the Marley
family.
A few eye brows were raised when the photo bugs went nuts snapping
shots of Chris Brown and Rihanna sitting together in the audience all hugged up
and smiling.
Even though it was no big deal, a few tried to make a mountain out
of a mole hill when Jennifer Lopez strutted down the red carpet in a solid
black gown the revealed her right leg and left shoulder in a tactful manner
mind you. Then she said, “”As you can see I read the memo. I thought I was
being a good girl.” Her reference was to the CBS memo asking presenter and
performers to cover up.
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| Chris Brown and Rihanna all lovey dovey |
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| Jennifer Lopez |
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| Kelly Roland |
Kelly Roland had on the sexiest and best dress of the
evening in this writer’s opinion.
The show had it’s high and low point but made the grade over all. Below is a complete list of winners.
The show had it’s high and low point but made the grade over all. Below is a complete list of winners.
55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners
1. RECORD OF THE YEAR
WINNER
Somebody
That I Used To Know
Wally De Backer, producer; Wally De Backer & Francois Tetaz,
engineers/mixers; William Bowden, mastering engineer
Track
from: Making
Mirrors
Label: Universal Republic
2. ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WINNER
Babel
Markus Dravs, producer; Robin Baynton & Ruadhri Cushnan,
engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Label: Glassnote
3. SONG OF THE YEAR
WINNER
We Are
Young
Track
from: Some
Nights
Label: Fueled By Ramen; Publishers: WB Music, FBR Music, Bearvon
Music/Rough Art/Shira Lee Lawrence Rick Music/Way Above Music/Sony ATV Songs
4. BEST NEW ARTIST
WINNER
5. BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Set
Fire To The Rain [Live]
Track
from: Live At
The Royal Albert Hall
Label: XL/Columbia
6. BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Somebody
That I Used To Know
Track
from: Making
Mirrors
Label: Universal Republic
7. BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
WINNER
Impressions
Chris
Botti
Label: Columbia
8. BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
WINNER
Stronger
Label: RCA Records/19 Recordings LLC
9. BEST DANCE RECORDING
WINNER
Bangarang
Skrillex
Featuring Sirah
Skrillex, producer; Skrillex, mixer
Track
from: Bangarang
Label: OWSLA/Big Beat/Atlantic
10. BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM
WINNER
Bangarang
Skrillex
Label: OWSLA/Big Beat/Atlantic
11. BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
WINNER
Kisses
On The Bottom
Paul
McCartney
Label: Hear Music
12. BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Lonely
Boy
Track
from: El Camino
Label: Nonesuch
13. BEST HARD ROCK/METAL PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Love
Bites (So Do I)
Halestorm
Track
from: The
Strange Case Of...
Label: Atlantic
14. BEST ROCK SONG
WINNER
Lonely
Boy
Track
from: El Camino
Label: Nonesuch; Publisher: McMoore McLesst Publishing
15. BEST ROCK ALBUM
WINNER
El
Camino
Label: Nonesuch
Label: Capitol
16. BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
WINNER
Making
Mirrors
Label: Universal Republic
The
Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve
You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Fiona
Apple
Label: Epic/Clean Slate
17. BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Climax
Usher
Track
from: Looking 4
Myself
Label: RCA Records
18. BEST TRADITIONAL R&B
PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Love On
Top
Beyoncé
Track
from: 4
Label: Columbia Records
19. BEST R&B SONG
WINNER
Adorn
Label: RCA/Bystorm Entertainment; Publisher: Art Dealer Chic
20. BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
WINNER
Channel
Orange
Label: Def Jam
21. BEST R&B ALBUM
WINNER
Black
Radio
Robert
Glasper Experiment
Label: Blue Note
22. BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
WINNER
N****s
In Paris
Track
from: Watch The
Throne
Label: Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
23. BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
WINNER
No
Church In The Wild
Track
from: Watch The
Throne
Label: Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
24. BEST RAP SONG
WINNER
N****s
In Paris
Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey
Hollis & Kanye West, songwriters (W.A.
Donaldson, songwriter) (Jay-Z & Kanye West)
Track
from: Watch The
Throne
Label: Roc-A-Fella Records; Publishers: Hit-Boy Music/Very Good Beats,
Hip Hop Since 1978, Dean's List Productions, Unichappell Music
25. BEST RAP ALBUM
WINNER
Take
Care
Drake
Label: Cash Money Records
26. BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Blown
Away
Carrie
Underwood
Track
from: Blown
Away
Label: 19 Recordings Limited/Arista Nashville
27. BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Pontoon
Little
Big Town
Label: Capitol Records Nashville
28. BEST COUNTRY SONG
WINNER
Blown
Away
Josh
Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
Track
from: Blown
Away
Label: 19 Recordings Limited/Arista Nashville; Publishers: Global Dog
Music/Lunalight Music, Big Loud Songs/Angel River Songs
29. BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
WINNER
Uncaged
Zac
Brown Band
Label: Southern Ground/Atlantic
30. BEST NEW AGE ALBUM
WINNER
Echoes
Of Love
Omar
Akram
Label: Real Music
31. BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO
WINNER
Hot
House
Gary
Burton & Chick Corea, soloists
Track
from: Hot House
Label: Concord Jazz
32. BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
WINNER
Radio
Music Society
Esperanza
Spalding
Label: Heads Up International
33. BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
WINNER
Unity
Band
Pat
Metheny Unity Band
Label: Nonesuch
34. BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM
WINNER
Dear
Diz (Every Day I Think Of You)
Arturo
Sandoval
Label: Concord Jazz
35. BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM
WINNER
¡Ritmo!
The
Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band
Label: Clare Fischer Productions/Clavo Records
36. BEST GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
WINNER
10,000
Reasons (Bless The Lord)
Matt
Redman
Track
from: 10,000
Reasons
Label: sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records
37. BEST GOSPEL SONG
WINNER
Go Get
It
Erica
Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary)
Label: Columbia; Publishers: EMI April Music, It's Tea Tyme, That's Plum
Song, Wet Ink Red Music
38. BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC
SONG
TIE
10,000
Reasons (Bless The Lord)
Jonas
Myrin & Matt Redman, songwriters (Matt Redman)
Track
from: 10,000
Reasons
Label: sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records; Publishers: Thankyou
Music/sixsteps Music/worshiptogether.com Songs/Said And Done Music/Shout!
Publishing
TIE
Your
Presence Is Heaven
Israel
Houghton & Micah Massey, songwriters (Israel & New Breed)
Track
from: Jesus At
The Center Live
Label: Integrity Music; Publishers: Integrity's Praise! Music/Sound of
the New Breed, Regenerate Music
Jesus,
Friend Of Sinners
Mark
Hall & Matthew West, songwriters (Casting Crowns)
Track
from: Come To
The Well
Label: Beach Street/Reunion Records
39. BEST GOSPEL ALBUM
WINNER
Gravity
Lecrae
Label: Reach Records
40. BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC
ALBUM
WINNER
Eye On
It
TobyMac
Label: ForeFront Records
41. BEST LATIN POP ALBUM
WINNER
MTV
Unplugged Deluxe Edition
Juanes
Label: Universal Music Latino
Label: Sony Music
42. BEST LATIN ROCK, URBAN OR
ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
WINNER
Imaginaries
Quetzal
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
43. BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC ALBUM
(INCLUDING TEJANO)
WINNER
Pecados
Y Milagros
Lila
Downs
Label: Sony Music
44. BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM
WINNER
Retro
Marlow
Rosado Y La Riqueña
Label: Pink Chaos Productions
45. BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
WINNER
Slipstream
Bonnie
Raitt
Label: Redwing Records
46. BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM
WINNER
Nobody
Knows You
Steep
Canyon Rangers
Label: Rounder
47. BEST BLUES ALBUM
WINNER
Locked
Down
Dr.
John
Label: Nonesuch
48. BEST FOLK ALBUM
WINNER
The
Goat Rodeo Sessions
Yo-Yo
Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Label: Sony Classical
49. BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM
WINNER
The
Band Courtbouillon
Wayne Toups,
Steve Riley & Wilson Savoy
Label: Valcour Records
50. BEST REGGAE ALBUM
WINNER
Rebirth
Jimmy
Cliff
Label: UMe/Sunpower
51. BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
WINNER
The
Living Room Sessions Part 1
Ravi
Shankar
Label: East Meets West Music
52. BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM
WINNER
Can You
Canoe?
The
Okee Dokee Brothers
Label: Okee Dokee Music LLC
53. BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM
WINNER
Society's
Child: My Autobiography
Janis
Ian
Label: Audible, Inc.
54. BEST COMEDY ALBUM
WINNER
Blow
Your Pants Off
Jimmy Fallon
Label: Warner Bros. Records/LoudMouth Entertainment
55. BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM
WINNER
Once: A
New Musical
Steve
Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin
Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, composers/lyricists)
(Original Broadway Cast With Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti & Others)
Label: Masterworks
56. BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR
VISUAL MEDIA
WINNER
Midnight
In Paris
(Various
Artists)
Label: Madison Gate Records, Inc.
57. BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL
MEDIA
WINNER
The
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Trent
Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers
Label: Null/Madison Gate
58. BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
WINNER
Safe
& Sound (From The Hunger Games)
(Taylor Swift Featuring The Civil Wars)
Label: Big Machine Records/Universal Republic; Publishers: Sony ATV Tree
Publishing, Taylor Swift Music, Sensibility Songs, Absurd Music, Shiny Happy
Music, Baffle Music, Henry Burnett Music
59. BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
WINNER
Mozart
Goes Dancing
Chick Corea,
composer (Chick Corea & Gary Burton)
Track
from: Hot House
Label: Concord Jazz
60. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT
WINNER
How
About You
Gil
Evans, arranger (Gil Evans Project)
Track
from: Centennial
- Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans
Label: ArtistShare
61. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT
ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S)
WINNER
City Of
Roses
Thara
Memory & Esperanza Spalding, arrangers (Esperanza Spalding)
Track
from: Radio
Music Society
Label: Heads Up International
62. BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
WINNER
Biophilia
Michael
Amzalag & Mathias Augustyniak, art directors (Björk)
Label: One Little Indian / Nonesuch
63. BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED
EDITION PACKAGE
WINNER
Woody
At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Fritz
Klaetke, art director (Woody Guthrie)
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
64. BEST ALBUM NOTES
WINNER
Singular
Genius: The Complete ABC Singles
Billy
Vera, album notes writer (Ray Charles)
Label: Concord
65. BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM
WINNER
The
Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set)
Alan
Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson & Dennis Wolfe, compilation producers; Mark
Linett, mastering engineer (The Beach Boys)
Label: Capitol Records
66. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM,
NON-CLASSICAL
WINNER
The
Goat Rodeo Sessions
Richard
King, engineer; Richard King, mastering engineer (Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan,
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile)
Label: Sony Classical
67. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
WINNER
68. BEST REMIXED RECORDING,
NON-CLASSICAL
WINNER
Promises
(Skrillex & Nero Remix)
Skrillex,
remixer (Nero)
Joseph Ray, Skrillex & Daniel Stephens, remixers
Label: Cherry Tree/Interscope
69. BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM
WINNER
Modern
Cool
Jim
Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer;
Michael Friedman, surround producer (Patricia Barber)
Label: Premonition Records
70. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
WINNER
Life
& Breath - Choral Works By René Clausen
Tom
Caulfield & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer
(Charles Bruffy & Kansas City Chorale)
Label: Chandos
71. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
WINNER
Blanton
Alspaugh
·
Roussel: Le Festin De L'Araignée (Stéphane Denève & Royal
Scottish National Orchestra)
·
Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 (John Jeter & Fort Smith
Symphony)
·
72.
BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Adams:
Harmonielehre & Short Ride In A Fast Machine
Michael
Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)
Label: SFS Media
73. BEST OPERA RECORDING
WINNER
Wagner:
Der Ring Des Nibelungen
James
Levine & Fabio Luisi, conductors; Hans-Peter König, Jay Hunter Morris, Bryn
Terfel & Deborah Voigt; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
74. BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Life
& Breath - Choral Works By René Clausen
Charles
Bruffy, conductor (Matthew Gladden, Lindsey Lang, Rebecca Lloyd, Sarah
Tannehill & Pamela Williamson; Kansas City Chorale)
Label: Chandos
75. BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE
PERFORMANCE
WINNER
Meanwhile
Eighth
Blackbird
Label: Cedille Records
76. BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
WINNER
Kurtág
& Ligeti: Music For Viola
Kim
Kashkashian
Label: ECM New Series
77. BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLO
WINNER
Poèmes
Renée
Fleming (Alan Gilbert & Seiji Ozawa; Orchestre National De France &
Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)
Label: Decca Records
78. BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
WINNER
Penderecki:
Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis
Antoni
Wit, conductor; Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin, producers
Label: Naxos
79. BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL
COMPOSITION
WINNER
Hartke,
Stephen: Meanwhile - Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays
Stephen
Hartke, composer (Eighth Blackbird)
Track
from: Meanwhile
Label: Cedille Records
80. BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO
WINNER
We
Found Love
Rihanna
Featuring Calvin Harris
Melina Matsoukas, video director; Juliette Larthe, Ben Sullivan,
Candice Ouaknine & Inga Veronique video producers
Label: Def Jam
81. BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO
WINNER
Big
Easy Express
Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The
Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine Show
Emmett Malloy, video director; Bryan Ling, Mike Luba & Tim
Lynch, video producers
Label: S2BN Films
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