Essays on Grammy

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The Beatles is renowned as a legendary band that has been successful in making a remarkable name in the history of music in the United States (Davies). This paper intends to not only introduce this famous band and discuss its achievements, it also endeavors to describe the band and analyze its developmental history. It first provides the basic information about the band and then addresses the reasons it became so popular all over the world. Without a doubt, the Beatles has turned out to be one of the most popular bands in the United States with ...

Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas on September 4, 1981. Performance was important to her and she began performing in front of audiences at a very young age. Her parents supported her early entrance into the world of the performing arts, and her mother became her manager and stylist. (“Biography,” 2016) This support from her family was in large part the reason for her early success in the business. Beyonce had a large network of support that she could draw from when conflict arose and her times became more difficult than expected. When she was 16, Beyonce ...

Bob Marley as a musician, left behind a legendary and lengthy list of what he accomplished in his musical career as well as his social lifestyle. He is remembered to date as an advocate of social change as well as an icon of cultural transformation who always encouraged his fanatics to put their troubles away and dance along to the music. His artistic expression was a great influence on the global culture as it was embraced by a huge number of people in almost all the continents he visited and countries where his music was played on the airwaves. ...

Rap has entered the history of American art over a century ago. The people who have laid the foundations for rap as we know it today were the two big ethnical groups of the American society: African Americans and people from the Caribbean Islands. Folk artists of the mentioned origins were telling rhymed stories with the accompaniment of rhythmic music (drums and sparse instrumentation). This music already existed years before hip-hop was developed and became popular. Rapping is actually reading or chanting of rhythmic lyrics that were designed to set a beat. Many specialists are of the opinion that ...

It was a perfect moment in time. To witness someone so comfortable in their own skin and so confident in who they are, and to watch this congeal into a glow that emanated through television screens around the world. Beyoncé Knowles Carter stood proudly, strongly. She stood in front of a luminescent backdrop with the word “FEMININST” displayed prominently, with only the light of Beyoncé herself shining brighter in the venue that night. During a time when many were much more enamored with the idea of feminism than any actual real life application of it, when the word was ...

2004 was an epic year for the hip hop group outcast; they were nominated for their song Hey- Ya which got worldwide recognition. The duo performed the song during the Grammies where Andre 3000 dressed up as an Indian native as he danced to the song .The beginning of the song opened up with a dance that comprised of drums and smoke that which arose from a tee pee shaped structure .This was presided by a group of female dancers who bumped and grinned with skimpy costumes, braided hair and feathered headgear (Salim Muwakkil 1). Native Indians have gone though allot ...