LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The Grammy strain awards uncover paid reverence Sunday to recuperating essence fable Aretha Franklin, in a star-studded dusk together with performances by veterans Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan as good as Barbra Streisand.
Lady Gaga was between early acts during a three-and-a-half-hour show, looming in matchless character from an egg to sing “Born this Way,” whilst alternative acts upon a check enclosed Katy Perry, rapper Eminem as good as teenager prodigy Justin Bieber.
The festive celebration began with Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson as good as Florence Welch of Florence as good as a Machine belting out a fibre of Franklin’s hits together with Respect, Think as good as “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman.”
Franklin, 68, has been often out of a open eye given she had operation in Dec for an undisclosed ailment. Local media reported which she was battling cancer, after canceling concerts in Oct citing “health reasons.”
On Sunday she sent a video summary to a Grammys, played after a reverence territory to her, thanking everybody who sent cards, flowering plants as good as “most importantly your prayers” when she was in hospital.
“I instruct which we could have been we all tonight, though given we couldn’t, subsequent year, OK?” pronounced Franklin, in a white skirt as good as seeking slimmed down from latest years.
While showcasing latest talent, a festive 53rd Grammys eventuality will additionally compensate reverence to past greats together with “The King of Rock ‘N Soul” Solomon Burke, who died final year.
Dylan, looming during a Grammys for his fifth time, was to perform with country-tinged Brits Mumford as good as Son as good as folk-rock rope a Avett Brothers in a special salute to acoustic strain during a Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The Grammys have been a strain industry’s homogeneous of a Oscars, a consummate of Hollywood’s annual awards deteriorate which this year takes place in hardly dual weeks’ time, upon Feb 27.
Front-runners for Grammys excellence embody Eminem, nominated in 10 categories together with most appropriate manuscript as good as most appropriate song, in what could tip a quip year for a once-troubled swat star.
The thespian — genuine name Marshall Bruce Mathers III — forsaken out of music-making in a center of a past decade as he battled with drug problems. He returned with a manuscript “Relapse” in 2009, prior to 2010′s “Recovery.”
“Recovery” was a top-selling manuscript of 2010. Song “Love a Way You Lie” stood as series a single in a charts for 7 weeks, a year’s second-longest run at a back of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok,” whilst “Not Afraid” additionally strike a tip spot.
Hawaiian-born thespian Bruno Mars came second to Eminem with 7 nominations together with Best Male Pop Vocal, whilst US swat megastar Jay-Z, Nashville-born nation contingent Lady Antebellum as good as Lady Gaga any warranted 6 nods.
Perry is additionally in a using for Best Album along with Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire as good as Lady Antebellum.
Best New Artist nominees were Canadian teenager statue Bieber, quirky British thespian Florence Welch, Mumford as good as Son, as good as Drake as good as Esperanza Spalding.
Nominations in a categorical categories include:
- Record of a Year: “Nothin’ upon You” by B.o.B with Bruno Mars; “Love a Way we Lie” by Eminem featuring Rihanna; “F*** You!” by Cee Lo Green; “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z as good as Alicia Keys; as good as “Need You Now” by Lady Antebellum.
- Best Album: “The Fame Monster” by Lady Gaga; “Recovery” by Eminem; “The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire; “Need You Now” by Lady Antebellum; as good as “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry.
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