America, and the music world at large, has spent a significant portion of the past month grappling with the implications of “Leaving Neverland,” the haunting HBO documentary that revisits highly credible pedophilia allegations against Michael Jackson. But on Friday, good news will emerge about a member of the Jackson family that runs the risk of […]
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Jackie Shane, a black transgender soul singer who packed nightclubs in 1960s Toronto before she stepped out of the spotlight for decades, only to re-emerge with a Grammy-nominated record in her 70s, has died. She was 78. Her death was confirmed by Douglas Mcgowan, her producer and friend. He said her body was found at […]
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If you ask Kacey Musgraves — the country singer-songwriter who won four Grammy Awards last Sunday, including album of the year — how her week has been, you’ll get a pretty good idea of her default manner. “Mehhh,” she said playfully over the phone Friday evening, after a few days of letting it all sink […]
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What Does Bebe Rexha’s Grammys Dress Journey Signal for the Future of the Red Carpet? | PEOPLE.com Top Navigation Close Explore PEOPLE.com Profile Menu Follow us this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.
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Cardi B attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Rich Fury (Getty Images for The Recording Academy) It was the statement dress that set the tone for a history-making night, and just the first of many designs by Mugler worn by Cardi B on Sunday, […]
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Photo: Theo Wargo (GETTYIMAGES) I’d like to start this out by saying that never in the history of ever will you ever have to tear another woman down to build one up. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get started; On music’s biggest night, a regular, degular girl from the Bronx made history. […]
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Ariana Grande didn’t attend the Grammys, but that didn’t stop her from being at the center of the conversation about — and around — the ceremony. On Friday she released an album, “Thank U, Next,” and a hot-button video for a new single, “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored.” And throughout Sunday, she found […]
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Jennifer Lopez (l) and Smokey Robinson perform at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony.Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images for The Recording Academy) During Black History Month 2019, the Recording Academy decided to gentrify Motown by having Jennifer “Don’t Be Fooled By the Rocks that I Got” Lopez do a tribute to an undeniably black-ass genre […]
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The 61st annual Grammy Awards on Sunday worked to right the wrongs of the past few years’ ceremonies, where the leading narrative was tension over a lack of diversity and poor representation for the most influential young artists in music. Big stars still stayed home — and one of the biggest got cut off mid-speech […]
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Cardi B attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Cinderella could never. In the history of iconic glow ups, reality proved far more fantastical than fiction Sunday night at the 61st Grammy Awards ceremony, where the accomplishments […]
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It’s possible that the most out-there moment of fashion week took place Sunday night thousands of miles away from the New York catwalks — sorry, red carpet — at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. I am speaking, of course, of Cardi B’s Grammys entrance as Venus emerging from her clam in vintage Thierry Mugler […]
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Grammys 2019: Teddy Geiger Walks Red Carpet with Fiancée Emily Hampshire | PEOPLE.com Top Navigation Close Explore PEOPLE.com Profile Menu Follow us this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.
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Kacey Musgraves, nominated for four awards, including album of the year for “Golden Hour.” She spoke glowingly about recording the album at Sheryl Crow’s studio outside of Nashville, which is located above a horse stable and where, Ms. Musgraves told Ryan Seacrest, she could get Guinness on tap.
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The 61st annual awards will be broadcast by CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 8 p.m. • The preshow ceremony is streaming on Grammy.com. • See our full article about the 2019 nominees here. • Who got snubbed, and whose nomination was a big surprise? Read our round table. Here are the […]
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ImageAlicia Keys, center, is hosting the Grammys this year.CreditMatt Sayles/Invision, via Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The organizers of the Grammy Awards call it music’s biggest night. The show’s three and a half hours of network television time certainly represents the music industry’s highest-profile media real estate. This year the top awards will feel a […]
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Apple is offering a four-month free Apple Music trial to Shazam users who use the app while watching the Grammy Awards tonight. Apple is highlighting this offer as a part of the App Store story today. Apple will be offering a custom Grammy Awards experience using the Shazam app and new subscribers will get a […]
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Alicia Keys speaks onstage during the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City.Photo: Christopher Polk (Getty Images for NARAS) The performance lineup for the 2019 Grammys may be “in flux,” but we know there will be plenty of showing out (and likely, plenty showing, in general) […]
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ImageCreditFranziska Barczyk Welcome to In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it.”— Ariana Grande Bills flying. Backsides shaking. Drinks flowing. And hardly a man in […]
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The Grammy Awards are supposed to be music’s biggest party. But in recent years the show has also become a piñata for critics, activists and even major artists over a host of issues like race and gender — and, oh yes, music. The 61st annual show, to be hosted by Alicia Keys and broadcast live […]
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It’s Grammy time, and as always, watching the awards ceremony on Sunday will include a subtext of cross-generational carping: “They don’t make music the way they used to,” the Boomers and Gen-X-ers will mutter. And they’ll be right. Music today, at least most of it, is fundamentally different than it was in the days of […]
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