After an absurd Grammy awards - featuring amazing performances by Arcade Fire, Muse, Mick Jagger, Eminem, Bob Dylan, Cee Lo and abounding added - everybody has just one question: Who the hell is Esperanza Spalding? The 26-year-old bassist and applesauce accompanist was up adjoin Justin Bieber, Mumford & Songs, Florence & The Machine and Drake for Best New Artist, and actually cipher anticipation that she had even the aboriginal adventitious of winning.
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Even Spalding herself seemed dumfounded by the news. "I apperceive I don't accept a lot of time, so first, acknowledge you to the academy for even nominating me in this category," she said as she captivated her duke to her heart. "I yield this account to affection so sincerely, and I'll do my damndest to accomplish a accomplished lot of abundant music for all of you."
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It's important to bethink that as harder as the Grammys accept approved to be abreast in contempo years, it's the aforementioned alignment that gave Herbie Hancock Anthology of the Year in 2008 for River: The Joni Letters, his jazz-infused accolade to the music of Joni Mitchell. The voters are aswell on the earlier side, and they tend to accolade new artists that embrace earlier forms of music. Amy Winehouse bedeviled in 2008 not alone because she was crazily talented, but aswell because her complete was a bequest to the 1960s girl-groups.
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That's not to advance that Spalding's alone address to voters was the actuality that she isn't a archetypal pop artist. Over the endure 5 years the applesauce prodigy has agilely carved out a nice career for herself. She played for Obama at the White House, appeared in a Banana Republic ad, accustomed Prince at the BET Awards, performed on Austin City Limits and even accomplished at the Berklee College of Music.
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She aswell arise three acclaimed albums. Rolling Stone gave her 2010 anthology Chamber Music Society three stars. "Her aptitude is undeniable," Mark Kemp wrote. "The alcove ambience provides a bristling pillow for angry advance like 'Little Fly,' William Blake's composition set to admirable bass and strings."
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Three canicule ago she spoke to the Associated Press about how her achievement at the BET Awards led to an epiphany about her role in the industry. "I was absolutely on this mission to amount out how I was traveling to yield my music and accomplish it attainable to the pop world," she said she anticipation afore the show. "'How am I traveling to about-face this into like an Alicia Keys thing?' Every being looked like a California raisin. The industry has amidst them with all of these apparent pyrotechnics and I anticipate it's absolutely sucked the activity out of their artistic spirit, and I acquisition that absolutely sad. I absitively that I was just blessed to be a company from the absolved branch of jazz, and I absitively then, whatever happens, I consistently wish to be architect of the territory."
This is not the aboriginal time that the Grammy Accolade for Best New Artisan was a about unknown. In 1977 Starland Vocal Band won the accolade over superstars Boston and two years after A Taste of Honey exhausted Elvis Costello and The Cars. Christopher Cross won over The Pretenders in 1981, and in 1990 Milli Vanilli won - alone to accord the accolade aback months after if it was arise they had lip-synced.
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This is the aboriginal time, however, that a applesauce artisan has won the award. Hopefully Spalding will accept a best career than accomplished winners Men At Work, The Swingle Sisters, Debby Boone, Jody Watley and Paula Cole.
Kanye West didn't assume captivated by the news. "Damn," he tweeted. "I can't acquisition the words to explain how I feel about the best new artisan award... Don't wanna say the amiss thing."
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Winners arise in bold.
Album of the Year:• Arcade Fire, The Suburbs • Eminem, Recovery
• Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
• Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
• Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
Record of the Year:• B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars, "Nothin' on You"
• Eminem feat. Rihanna, "Love the Way You Lie"
• Cee Lo Green, "F*** You"
• Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, "Empire State of Mind"
• Lady Antebellum, "Need You Now"
Best Rock Album:• Jeff Beck, Emotion & Commotion
• Muse, The Resistance (Winner)• Pearl Jam, Backspacer
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mojo
• Neil Young, Le Noise
Best Rap Album: • B.o.B, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
• Drake, Thank Me Later
• Eminem, Recovery• Jay-Z, The Blueprint 3
• The Roots, How I Got Over
Best New Artist:• Justin Bieber
• Drake
• Florence and the Machine
• Mumford and Sons
• Esperanza Spalding
Best Alternative:• Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
• Band of Horses, Infinite Arms
• The Black Keys, Brothers • Broken Bells, Broken Bells
• Vampire Weekend, Contra
Song of the Year:• Ray LaMontagne, "Beg Steal or Borrow"
• Cee-Lo, "Fuck You"
• Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me"
• Eminem feat. Rihanna, "Love the Way You Lie"
• Lady Antebellum, "Need You Now"
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
• Sara Bareilles, "King of Anything"• Beyoncé, "Halo (Live)"
• Norah Jones, "Chasing Pirates"
• Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance"• Katy Perry, "Teenage Dream"
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:• Michael Bublé, "Haven't Met You Yet"
• Michael Jackson, "This Is It"
• Adam Lambert, "Whataya Wish From Me"
• Bruno Mars, "Just the Way You Are"• John Mayer, "Half of My Heart"
Best Pop Achievement By a Duo Or Group With Vocals:
• Glee Cast, "Don't Stop Believing (Regionals Version)"• Maroon 5, "Misery"
• Paramore, "The Alone Exception"
• Sade, "Babyfather"
• Train, "Hey, Soul Sister (Live)"
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals:
• B.o.B., Eminem and Hayley Williams, "Airplanes, Part II"• Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare, "Imagine"• Elton John and Leon Russell, "If It Wasn't For Bad"
• Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, "Telephone"
• Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg, "California Gurls"
Best Pop Vocal Album:• Justin Bieber, My Apple 2.0
• Susan Boyle, I Dreamed a Dream
• Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster• John Mayer, Battle Studies
• Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance:
• Paul McCartney, "Helter Skelter"
• Eric Clapton, "Run Aback To Your Side"• John Mayer, "Crossroads"
• Robert Plant, "Silver Rider"
• Neil Young, "Angry World"
Best Rock Achievement By a Duo or Group with Vocals:
• The Black Keys, "Tighten Up"
• Arcade Fire, "Ready to Start"
• Jeff Beck and Joss Stone, "I Put a Spell On You"
• Kings of Leon, "Radioactive"
• Muse, "Resistance"
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