Grammy Award for Best New Artist
The Grammy Award for Best New Artist , in German "Grammy Award for the best new artist", is a music prize that has been awarded at the annual Grammy Awards since 1959 . The award goes to outstanding musicians or bands who published their first publicly effective and identity-creating work in the previous year. It represents one of the main genre-independent categories of the award, so it can be given to musicians of any musical genre.
Background and story
The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been awarded since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in the United States of America , “ to honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position ”(German:“ to honor artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance regardless of album sales or chart position. ”)
The Grammy Award for Best New Artist was awarded for the first time at the second awards in 1959 and has been an integral part of the Grammy awards since then, with the exception of the 1967 awards. Officially, it is awarded to a new artist who, during the previous year, released the first recording depicting the artist's public identity. It doesn't have to be an artist's first album.
Occasionally, winning this Grammy, with varying degrees of seriousness, is viewed as a curse, as several artists, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, failed to achieve their success again after the award and the debut year. This position was supported by Taffy Danoff , a former member of the Starland Vocal Band in 2002 in an interview for the program 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the transmitter VH1 expressed:
“We got two of the five Grammys - one was Best New Artist. So that was basically the kiss of death and I feel sorry for everyone who's gotten it since. "
“We got two of the five Grammys - one of them for Best New Artist. This was basically the kiss of death and since then I have felt sorry for all the artists who received it. "
The category is also the only category in which a Grammy Award has been revoked. This came about in 1990 after it was revealed that the winners Milli Vanilli had not featured their own vocals on their debut album. The award was revoked, but not given to another artist.
statistics
Of the 49 awards that have been given since it was first presented, 23 went to female solo artists, 15 to duos or bands and 11 to male solo artists. Between 1997 and 2003, all winners were female solo artists, and until 2005 the Grammy was not awarded to male solo artists for 14 consecutive years. So far, only four artists have received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in the same year: Bob Newhart in 1961, Christopher Cross in 1981, Lauryn Hill in 1999 and Norah Jones in 2003.
1984 was the first year that all nominees came from outside the United States (Culture Club, the Eurythmics and Musical Youth came from England, Big Country from Scotland and Men Without Hats from Canada).
Winner and nominated artist
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supporting documents
- ↑ Overview . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 11, 2014.
- ^ Grammy Awards at a Glance . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved July 19, 2010.
- ↑ blog.washingtonpost.com
- ↑ today.msnbc.msn.com
- ↑ VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders
- ↑ Chuck Gates: Jackson dominates Grammy list . In: Deseret News . Deseret News Publishing Company. February 24, 1984. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ^ Dan Auerbach, Fun., Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West Lead 55th GRAMMY Nominations , Recording Academy Press Release, December 5, 2012.
- ↑ 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees. From: grammy.com, accessed December 6, 2012.
Web links
- Official website of the Grammy Awards
- Grammy Awards: New Artist . Rock on the Net. Retrieved July 22, 2010.