The Many Performances And The Awards Given During The 52nd Grammy Awards Show
February 7th, 2010 by Classical Music Expert
The Grammy Awards is an awards show that began in 1958 and has been telecast since 1971 giving out awards for achievements in the music industry. The name, Grammy awards used to be called the gold gramophone trophies. This year, the 52nd Grammy Awards show took place in LA and was over three hours long with many awards and live performances like Lady Gaga and Elton John seated at dueling pianos with piano lamps singing a combination of Speechless and Your Song to the crowd. Another amazing performance was by Pink who sang “Glitter in the Air” while performing an impressive aerial acrobatics stunt with silk scarves and wonderful House of Troy lighting.
Beyonce Knowles made Grammy Award history at the 2010 Grammy Awards by winning the most Grammy’s for a female in one year. She took home 6 awards for various things such as song of the year and best R&B female vocal. Her song Single Ladies was a enormous hit that got her several of her awards in addition to her album from which that song was on. Despite her fame and recognition at the awards show, Beyonce seemed genuinely surprised to receive so many accolades and especially thanked her spouse, Jay Z, another famous musician. Her career started out as a singer in the girl group called Destiny’s Child and really exploded once she went out on her won with a solo career.
The youthful 20 year old country singer, Taylor Swift was the other big winner at the 2010 Grammy Awards winning the top prize of Album of the year for her Fearless album. She has had quite a year winning several awards and the Grammy’s proved to be no exception getting her 4 of the gold Gramophone trophies to take home. Besides winning her first Grammy awards, Swift performed a duet with one of her longtime idols, Stevie Nicks. The future certainly appears promising for the young singer from Nashville.
Another group from Nashville, Tennessee that shocked several at the Grammy Awards was the family band called Kings of Leon that won 3 awards including the record of the year beating out rock heavyweights, U2 and the Dave Matthews band. Another country band won a huge award for being named the best new artist was awarded to the Zac Brown band. It seems as if the country singers and those hailing from Nashville really cleaned up at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Another memorable moment of the night was during a special Michael Jackson tribute where they showed a video he had made that was to be shown during his tour that he was preparing for at the time of his untimely passing. It was done in 3D and singers, Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood all contributed to it on stage. Jackson’s children, Paris and Prince accepted a lifetime achievement award on behalf of their father which moved the whole audience.