Tim McGraw, Green Day, Alicia Keys, and U2 are the first performers announced for the 47th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, it was announced today by The Recording Academy. Ellen DeGeneres, Christina Milian, and John Travolta will appear as presenters. The music industry’s premier event will be hosted by Queen Latifah and will take place on Feb. 13 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). The show also will be supported on radio via Westwood One worldwide, and covered online at Grammy.com.
Grammy-winning country superstar Tim McGraw is nominated for two awards: Best Country Album (Live Like You Were Dying), and Best Male Country Vocal Performance for the album’s title track. Grammy-winning punk rock trio Green Day is up for six Grammy Awards: Album Of The Year and Best Rock Album for American Idiot, and Record Of The Year, Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, Best Rock Song, and Best Short Form Music Video for the title track.
Five-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys currently holds eight nominations: Album Of The Year and Best R&B Album (The Diary Of Alicia Keys); Song Of The Year and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (“If I Ain’t Got You”); two nominations in the Best R&B Song category (“My Boo,” and “You Don’t Know My Name”); and two nominations in the Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals category (“Diary” featuring Tony! Toni! Ton’! and “My Boo,” with Usher).
Thirteen-time Grammy Award winner U2 is currently nominated for three Grammys: Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, Best Rock Song, and Best Short Form Music Video for “Vertigo.”
Host of the daytime Emmy-winning talk show “Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and current Grammy nominee (Best Comedy Album) Ellen DeGeneres will appear as a presenter, along with recording artist/actress and current Grammy nominee (Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration) Christina Milian, and Oscar-nominated actor John Travolta.
(updated Jan. 27) The Recording Academy announced today that Kanye West, currently nominated for 10 Grammys, will perform on the 47th Annual Grammy Awards telecast with a group of soul, R&B and gospel artists including newcomer John Legend, R&B great Mavis Staples, and current nominee the Blind Boys Of Alabama. In addition, Bonnie Raitt and Billy Preston will perform in honor of Ray Charles, and Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, members of the definitive Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and legendary musicians Dickie Betts (the Allman Brothers Band) and Elvin Bishop will appear in a special tribute to Southern rock. The Academy also announced that Norah Jones, Ludacris, Mark McGrath, and Gary Sinise will present.
The Grammys tribute to Southern rock will feature the once-in-a-lifetime collaboration of current nominees Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, and Gretchen Wilson with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and musicians Dickie Betts and Elvin Bishop. McGraw is nominated for two awards, Best Country Album (Live Like You Were Dying) and Best Male Country Vocal Performance (“Live Like You Were Dying”). Urban currently holds two nominations: Best Country Album (Be Here) and Best Male Country Vocal Performance (“You’ll Think Of Me”). Newcomer Wilson is nominated for four awards: Best New Artist, Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song (“Redneck Woman”), and Best Country Album (Here For The Party).
Newly announced presenters include five-time Grammy-winner Norah Jones, rap artist Ludacris, Emmy-winning actor and star of the CBS show “C.S.I.: New York” Gary Sinise, and recording artist and “Extra!” co-host Mark McGrath who also is serving as an Honorary Member of The Recording Academy’s What’s The Download Interactive Advisory Board. Jones currently holds five nominations: Record Of The Year and Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (“Here We Go Again” with Ray Charles), Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (“Sunrise”), Best Pop Vocal Album (Feels Like Home), and Best Country Collaboration With Vocals (“Creepin’ In” with Dolly Parton). Ludacris is nominated for Record Of The Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Yeah!” with Usher and Lil Jon).
The 47th Annual Grammy Awards are produced by Cossette Productions for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette are executive producers, Walter C. Miller is producer/director, Tisha Fein is the coordinating producer, Tzvi Small is executive in charge of production, and Anthea Bhargava is associate producer.
Established in 1957, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., also known as The Recording Academy, is an organization of musicians, producers, engineers and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers. Internationally known for the Grammy Awards, The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs ‘ including the creation of the national public education campaign What’s The Download’.
source: The Recording Academy
updated January 27, 2005
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