South African DJ Black Coffee became the first African DJ to win a Grammy Award at the 64th edition of the Grammy Awards held on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in the best dance/electronic album category. Black Coffee At the 2022GrammyAwards, Black Coffee became the first African DJ to win aG...
"I never thought I’d say I won a GRAMMY at 22 years old," the South African singer said. Although coming up against stiff competition, including massive Afrobeats stars Burna Boy and Davido, Tyla's hit song "Water" proved undeniable for GRAMMY voters. ...
After two false starts that seen Isiah Young of USA and Japan's Yoshihide Kiryu disqualified, Chinese national record holder Su, who boasts a career best of 9.99 seconds, sprinted to a season best of 10.09s to seal the gold, becoming the first Chinese to win the event at an IAAF Diamond...
But as the performance draws ever closer, the streets explode with growing political unrest, forcing the Latin GRAMMY®-winning musician to wrestle with his responsibility as an artist to his country and his legions of fans around the globe. Shot entirely in the dramatic week leading up to ...
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Grammy Award winner: In 1949, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald became the first African Americans to win the brand-new Grammy Award. Principal dancer in a major dance company: In 1959, Arthur Mitchell joined the New York City Ballet, becoming the first African American dancer to do so. MTV ...
... And maybe 30, 40 years ago this naturalistic approach, where you looked beyond the text for the character, was considered a necessary antidote to some of the excesses of the past. But now it’s gone the other way. It’s become lazy and indulgent, and I ...
In 2005, fresh off her "American Idol" win, Carrie Underwood, then a rising singer from Oklahoma, scored her first country radio hit, "Jesus, Take The Wheel." Two years later, the faith-based ballad elevated her to another level in her career: a GRAMMY award for...
Did you know the first person to win an Emmy Award was a lady?! That's right. Lots of famous women in history have achieved important female firsts, paving the way for generations of women to come. Women's history is full of awesome females who accomplished great things, and were the...
Grammy Award-winner Nicholas Payton premieres a stunning all-star group with saxophonist Mark Turner, vibraphonist Joel Ross, guitarist Mike Moreno, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Marcus Gilmore. Payton,a trumpet virtuoso and accomplished multi-instrumentalist Payton brings unique insight, in...