International famous awards
Grammy Awards
Definiti
on
• A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry.
• U2, with 22 Grammy Awards, holds the record
for most awards won by a group
58th Annual Grammy Awards
• The 58th Annual Grammy Awards was held on February 15, 2016, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Leading
•
winners
With 31 Grammy
Awards,
Sir
Georg
Solti
is
the
artist with the most Grammy wins.
• ggest winner among
female artists with 27 awards.
• They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, which were first given for the year 1958.
Nominees and winners
• Record of the Year • "Uptown Funk" – Mark Ronson
featuring Bruno Mars
Album of the Year
• 1989 – Taylor Swift
• The music executives decided to rectify this by creating an award given by their industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys.
• This was the beginning of the National
• Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1981,
• Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012.
Process
• Entries • Reviewing sessions • Selection of nominees • Final voting • Prizes
• Best New Artist 最佳新人 is awarded
to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist (which is not necessarily their first proper release).
• Record of the Year 年度制作is
awarded to the performer and the production team of a single song.
• Song of the Year 年度单曲is awarded
to the writer(s)/composer(s) of a single song.
• The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.
• Following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012.
Categorie s
• The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by genre.
• Album of the Year 年度专辑 is awarded
to the performer and the production team of a full album.
• The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. the Emmy Awards (television) the Tony Awards (stage performance) the Academy Awards (motion pictures)
• The 58th Grammy Awards were held on February 15, 2016, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
History
• The Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s.