54th Annual Grammy Awards Wrap Up ~ 2012

Congratulations are in order for all of the winners and nominees @ the 54th Annual Grammys!
LL Cool J did a phenominal job!
Way to go Ms.Diana Ross - American Royalty(We LOVE YOU!),
Gil Scott- Heron, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", country legend, George Jones, 
Antonio Carlos Jobim, "The Girl From Ipanema"(one of my all time favorites)
all of whom received the Lifetime Achievement Award and
the late Steve Jobs for the Trustees Award (Nice!)
Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse - Body And Soul - Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Rhapsody In Blue - Track from: That's How We Roll - Best Instrumental Arrangement
Kirk Franklin - Hello Fear - Best Gospel Song
Adele -  Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance
Bon Iver - Best New Artist
Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah, Jorge Calandrelli, arranger, "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Booker T. Jones, The Road From Memphis - Best Pop Instrumental Album
Corinne Bailey Rae - Best R & B Performance
The King's Speech - Alexander Desplat, composer - Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media
A Tribe Called Quest and Foo Fighters -  Best Long Form Music Video, and for Walk -
Best Rock Song,Rhianna, Kid Cudi, Fergie,
Paul Epworth - Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (You ROCK!)
Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra - Best Classical Instrumental Solo - (YES!)
Diva Divo - Best Classical Vocal Solo Adams: Doctor Atomic - Best Opera Recording..
And last but not least, Jay-Z, Kanye West - Watch The Throne - "Otis"

Jay-Z, Keep doing YOU. Kanye West - Congratulations!

We love you, Cee-Lo Green~

The evening was filled with so many surprises - good and bad. It was Saturday evening when first we heard that Whitney Houston passed at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. God knows that we did not want that to be true.

Whitney Houston 2012

Whitney Houston, by far, touched so many lives over the past 30 years. From her first album/cd @ Arista Records, produced by Micahel Masser, Narada Michael Walden, Kashif and Jermaine Jackson, was released in February 1985 - entitled, "Whitney Houston".That album topped the charts of Billboard 200 album charts and stayed there for 14 non-consecutive weeks. The single, "Greatest Love of All" was the first album by a female: #1 hits on the Hot 100 chart, #1 on the Billboards for 14 weeks, #1 Artist - Billboard year-end charts(1986). Whitney Houston also worked with Preston Glass and Narada Michael Walden on several projects, including the album "Love Is A Contact Sport" 1987(Arista Records) There are millions of people around the globe sending up prayers and their condolences to Bobbi Kristina Brown, Sissy Houston. R.I.P. Whitney Houston. We love you!
Peace, Carla

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