Grammy Award for Song of the Year

Ella Fitzgerald , known as “The first lady of song” was born on April 25,1917 in Newport News , Virginia. She began to sing because of her troubled childhood witch started when her parents (William and Temperance Fitzgerald)split up shortly after she was born. She soon moved to Yonkers , New york . They lived there with her mothers boyfriend. Her mother's boyfriends name was Joseph Da Silva. In 1923 Ella’s half sister Frances was born. They were struggling with money so Ella helped out by working

into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. Up until this day Aretha is still alive living at age seventy two and has won many Grammy awards and considered one of the most honored artist. Aretha was born into a family that attended church, her father who was a Baptist preacher and gospel singer parents. She was the fourth of five children, and lost her mother from a heart attack, four years after her parents had gotten divorced. Aretha was then moved with her dad and siblings to Michigan where they attended

Brit awards, one Bambi award, one Grammy award, eight American music awards, sixteen Teen Choice awards, and eighteen MTV Europe Music awards. Recently, at an award show called the iHeartMusic awards show he won Male Artist of the Year. In addition to winning that award he also has a loyal group of fans called the “Beliebers”. At the show, too, his Beliebers won an award for being the best fan army. Justin says that his fans are one of the main reasons for his success alongside the many years of his

“Misfit today, Icon tomorrow” The song Hey Yeah is written and sung by Outkast’s Andre 3000. Anyone who has ever the song knows how incredibly happy the beat sounds and the lyrics appear but it is not until you shut off the music that you truly begin to understand the dark tale being told. The artist himself even says in the song,” Y'all don't want me here you just want to dance.” He is saying you are so distracted listening to the upbeat rhythm and exciting dance theme you never realize that the

a family of musician both of his parents played the piano. At the sage of seven he began taking piano lessons, by his teenage years he was already writing his own music. His first compassion ever “Soda Fountain Rag” was at the age of 15, he started playing professionally at 17, Duke Ellington 50 years of compositions, and a lot of his great work came from his teenage years and his late 20s. in 1923 duke and some of his friends came to New York they form the group the Washingtonians, they took part

artists to inspire them and different kind of music. They had many of people that came in out of the band at the beginning, but these people came up with the band name. Even though they have had many changes and tragedies, Fleetwood Mac earned many awards and achievements to be one of the best success stories in the music industry. Through different inspirations Fleetwood Mac formed the band and came up with the band name. Fleetwood Mac was formed by a blues artist that was really famous in the

Kendrick Lamar is a hip hop rapper who has been in the music industry for a few years. The first song of his I listened to was “The Recipe” on his album good kid M.A.A.D. city and at the time I did not really take a liking to his music. After watching Kendrick’s performance at the 2014 Grammy Awards with Imagine Dragons, I began to listen to more and more of his music. Kendrick Lamar’s latest studio album “To Pimp A Butterfly,” is great because of how instead of mainly rapping about the common

promise as Blood, Sweat & Tears, or realized their potential more fully and then blew it all in a series of internal conflicts and grotesque career moves. It could almost sound funny, talking about a group that sold close to six million records in three years and then squandered all of that momentum. They fused a rock & roll rhythm section to a horn section, held out the promise of a jazz-rock fusion that could storm the pop charts. The band was organized in New York in 1967. Al Kooper (born February

Pop King of America Michael Jackson Throughout the development of Pop culture in America, Michael Jackson, a man who obtained thirteen first singles, 17 Grammy Awards, and sold over 1 billion albums across the globe since his solo debut in 1972 (Izod 63–74), has contributed greatly to influence the public’s image of pop music. After the album Thriller got released, Michael Jackson became a role model for many music fans all around the world due to his . After his debut as a solo male artist, many

Victor Wooten redefines the word musician. Regaled as the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, Victor is known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning supergroup, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. He is an innovator on the bass guitar, as well as a talented composer, arranger, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. But those gifts only begin to tell the tale of this Tennessee titan. Victor is the loving husband and devoted father of four; the youngest