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Music Mondays: Grammy Edition
Were you one of the millions of people watching the Grammy's last night? Between the fashions, tributes and amazing performances, this year's show did not disappoint. Bruno Mars always shows up ready to entertain. With his sharp suit, pompadour hairstyle and moves like James Brown, he set the mood for a night of great performances. The Foo Fighters were big winners with a total of 5 Grammys including Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song and Taylor Swift, great job, but enough with the surprised look. You know everyone loves you, embrace it.
You can't talk about the Grammy's without mentioning the tragic loss of music icon, Whitney Houston and with such a short period of time to pull something together, Jennifer Hudson's performance was flawless. Other performers include the night's big winner, Adele (6 Grammy Awards), Katy Perry (whose new song is an obvious dig at Russell Brand) and legends like The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Glenn Campbell.
In case you didn't quite catch all of last night's winners, which would have been very easy as they only televised a hand-full, take a look at the list below. And while you do that, listen to some of the songs that won last night's awards in our Music Mondays: Grammy Edition!
Adele: Rolling In the Deep (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Short Form Music Video)
Foo Fighters: Walk (Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song)
Bon Iver (Best New Artist, Best Alternative Music Album)
Taylor Swift: Mean (Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song)
Skrillex: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Best Dance/Electronica Album, Best Dance Recording)
Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona: Fool for You (Best R&B Song, Best Traditional R&B Performance)
Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie: All of the Lights (Best Rap Song, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration)
Kirk Franklin: Hello Fear (Best Gospel Song, Best Gospel Album)
2012 Grammy Winners
Record of the Year: Adele - Rolling the Deep
Album of the Year: Adele - 21
Song of the Year: Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Best New Artist: Bon Iver
Best Pop Solo Performance: Adele - Someone Like You
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse - Body and Soul
Best Pop Instrumental Album: The Road from Memphis - Booker T. Jones
Best Pop Vocal Album: 21 - Adele
Best Dance Recording: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex
Best Dance/Electronica Album: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Duets II - Tony Bennett & Various Artists
Best Rock Performance: Walk - Foo Fighters
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance: White Limo - Foo Fighters
Best Rock Song: Walk - Foo Fighters
Best Rock Album: Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
Best Alternative Music Album: Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Best R&B Performance: Is This Love - Corinne Bailey Rae
Best Traditional R&B Performance: Fool for You - Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona
Best R&B Song: Fool for You - Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona
Best R&B Album: F.A.M.E. - Chris Brown
Best Rap Performance: Otis - Jay-Z & Kanye West
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: All of the Lights - Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
Best Rap Song: All of the Lights - Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
Best Rap Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Best Country Solo Performance: Mean - Taylor Swift
Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
Best Country Song: Mean - Taylor Swift
Best Country Album: Own the Night - Lady Antebellum
Best New Age Album: What's It All About - Pet Metheny
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: 500 Miles High - Chick Corea
Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Mosaic Project - Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Forever - Corea, Clarke & White
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Good Feeling - Christian McBride Big Band
Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Jesus - Le'Andria Johnson
Best Gospel Song: Hello Fear - Kirk Franklin
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: Blessings - Laura Story
Best Gospel Album: Hello Fear - Kirk Franklin
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: And If Our God Is For Us... - Chris Tomlin
Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album: Drama Y Luz - Maná
Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album: Bicentenario - Pepe Aguilar
Best Banda or Norteño Album: Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends - Los Tigres Del Norte
Best Tropical Latin album: The Last Mambo - Cachao
Best Americana Album: Ramble at the Ryman - Levon Helm
Best Bluegrass Album: Paper Airplane - Alison Krauss and Union Station
Best Blues Album: Revelator - Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best Folk Album: Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
Best Regional Roots Music Album: Rebirth of New Orleans - Rebirth Brass Band
Best Reggae Album: Revelation Pt. 1: The Root of Life - Stephen Marley
Best World Music Album: Tassili - Tinariwen
Best Children's Album: All About Bullies...Big & Small - Various Artists
Best Spoken Word Album (includes Poetry, Audio Books and Story Telling): If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) - Betty White
Best Comedy Album: Hilarious - Louis C.K.
Best Musical Theatre Album: The Book of Mormon
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Boardwalk Empire: Vol. 1 - Various Artists
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat's
Best Song Written for Visual Media: I See the Light (from Tangled)
Best Instrumental Composition: Life in Eleven - Béla Fleck & Howard Levy
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Rhapsody in Blue - Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me), Jorge Calandrelli (arranger) Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah
Best Recording Package: Scenes from The Suburbs - Caroline Robert (art director) Arcade Fire
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story - Dave Bett & Michelle Holme, Bruce Springsteen
Best Album Notes: Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s
Best Historical Album: Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection - Deluxe Edition)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Paper Airplane - Alison Krauss and Union Station
Producer of the Year, Non-classical: Paul Epworth
Best Remixed Recording, Non-classical: Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
Best Surround Sound Album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
Producer of the Year, Classical: Judith Sherman
Best Orchestral Performance: Brahms, Symphony No. 4 - Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
Best Opera Recording: Adams: Doctor Atomic
Best Choral performance: Light & Gold - Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
Best Small Ensemble Performance: Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music from Slide
Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra - Christopher Lamb, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Nashville Symphony
Best Classical Vocal Solo: Diva Divo - Joyce DiDonato (Kazushi Ono and Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon with Choeur de l'Opera National de Lyon)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry - Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein
Best Short Form Music Video: Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Best Long Form Music Video: Foo Fighters - Back and Forth
Photo Credit: Billboard.com
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