2015 Grammy Awards Winners List - Sam Smith wins big!

Out of six nominations, Sam Smith won four awards at the recently-held 57th Grammy Awards (2015), including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album.

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56th Grammy Awards - Winners List

The winners of the 56th Grammy Awards were revealed during the ceremony held Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

This year's winners include Bruno Mars who got the Best Pop Vocal Album award for Unorthodox Jukebox, Rihanna who got the Best Urban Contemporary Album award for Unapologetic, and Alicia Keys who got the Best RnB Album award for Girl On Fire.

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55th Grammy Awards (2013) - Winners list

The 55th Grammy Awards (2013) was held on February 10 (morning of Feb. 11 in Manila) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The indie pop band fun. won the Best New Artist award, while Taylor Swift’s Safe and Sound (from The Hunger Games OST) won Best Song Written for Visual Media, and Rihanna’s We Found Love won the Best Short Form Music Video award.

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Sarah Geronimo at the Grammys!

News recently surfaced that Kapamilya singer and actress Sarah Geronimo is in the shortlist of foreign artists that are being considered to perform live at the upcoming Grammy Awards.

Now that's a real good news because another local artist will have a chance to showcase her talent in the international scene. If the news is indeed true, that is.

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55th Grammy Awards (2013) – List of Nominees

The 55th Grammy Awards (2013) nominees have been revealed. The awarding ceremonies will be held on February 10, 2013 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Taylor Swift got three nominations – Record Of The Year, Best Country Duo/Group Performance, and Best Song Written For Visual Media.

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Adele Wins Big at the 54th Grammys

Adele was a big winner with six awards at the 54th Grammys held February 12th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. She is now tied with Beyonce for the most number of awards won by a female artist in one night.

The British singer didn't lose any nomination in this year's Grammys and even received a standing ovation for her performance of the song Rolling in the Deep, her first performance after her recent throat surgery (video at the end of the post).

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Winners of the 53rd Grammy Awards

The two Ladies (Lady Antebellum and Lady Gaga) are two of the big winners at the 53rd Grammy Awards held February 13th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Lady Antebellum went home with four major awards including Record of the Year, while Lady Gaga won two.

The Filipino-Puerto Rican singer Bruno Mars also won Best Male Pop Performance for Just the Way You Are while my personal favorite, Train, won Best Pop Performance By a Duo Or Group With Vocals for Hey Soul Sister.

Meanwhile, Justin Bieber won nothing. He lost the Best New Artist award to jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding.

The major winners of the 53rd Grammy Awards:

Album Of The Year:
The Suburbs — Arcade Fire

Record Of The Year:
Need You Now — Lady Antebellum

Best New Artist:
Esperanza Spalding

Song Of The Year:
Need You Now — Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum)

Best Female Pop Performance:
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga

Best Male Pop Performance:
Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals:
Imagine – Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No. 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare

Best Pop Performance By a Duo Or Group With Vocals:
Hey, Soul Sister — Train

Best Pop Vocal Album:
The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga

Best Dance Recording:
Only Girl (In the World) – Rihanna

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:
Tighten Up — The Black Keys

Best Hard Rock Performance:
New Fang — Them Crooked Vultures

Best Rock Song:
Angry World — Neil Young (Neil Young)

Best Rock Album:
The Resistance – Muse

Best Alternative Music Album:
Brothers — The Black Keys

Best Female R&B Performance:
Bittersweet – Fantasia

Best Male R&B Performance:
Usher

Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:
Soldier Of Love — Sade

Best Contemporary R&B Album:
Raymond V Raymond — Usher

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
Empire State Of Mind — Jay-Z & Alicia Keys

Best Rap Song:
Empire State Of Mind — Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Burt Keyes, Alicia Keys, Jane’t “Jnay” Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh (Jay-Z & Alicia Keys)

Best Rap Album:
Recovery — Eminem

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals:
As She’s Walking Away — Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson

Best Country Song:
Need You Now — Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum)

Best Country Album:
Need You Now — Lady Antebellum

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Lady Gaga Debuts "Born this Way" at the 53rd Grammys

Lady Gaga arrived at the 53rd Grammy Awards inside a gigantic egg carried by four half-naked men and escorted by a woman with a deformed face.

Many speculated that it's part of Lady Gaga's act and it was proven true when the avant-garde singer performed onstage.

Lady Gaga performed her latest single, Born this Way, for the first time to the delight of those watching the awards ceremonies. She started the performance inside the gigantic egg and eventually getting out of it to sing and dance on the stage.

Lady Gaga won the Best Pop Vocal Album award for the album The Fame Monster and the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award for her song Bad Romance.

Watch Lady Gaga in her very Born this Way performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards after the jump.

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Esperanza Spalding Wins 53rd Grammy's Best New Artist Award

Esperanza Spalding wins the 53rd Grammy Awards Best New Artist beating the Canadian YouTube star cum international singing sensation Justin Bieber.

Esperanza Spalding is a multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer (wikipedia). The 26-year-old musician is of African-American, Welsh, and Spanish descent.

She has three albums under her belt – Junjo (2006), Esperanza (2008), and Chamber Music Society (2010) – and has collaborated with artists like Fourplay, Stanley Clarke, Christian Scott, Donald Harrison, Joe Lovano, Nino Josele, Nando Michelin, and Theresa Perez.

And if you wanna know more about who she is, watch the "Who is Esperanza Spalding?" after the jump.

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2011 Grammy Nominees

The 53rd Grammy nominees has just been revealed with Eminem getting the most nods with 10 nominations, followed by Bruno Mars with 7, and Jay-Z, Lady Antebellum, and Lady Gaga each with 6.

Meanwhile, our very own Charice Pempengco didn't receive any nominations despite David Foster's bold claim that she could be headed for the Grammys. David said that when the Filipina singing sensation failed to make it as a nominee in the recent People's Choice Awards.

Too early for nominations she might be, Charice is definitely headed to the top. Her Glee character, Sunshine Corazon, will definitely be back for the post-Super Bowl episode which is said to be the most expensive Glee episode to date.

Along with Charice, Cheyenne Jackson will also be back as the coach of Vocal Adrenaline.

The episode will feature the songs of Michael Jackson, Black Eyed Peas, Katy Perry, and Lady Antebellum. As for the songs that Charice will cover, there's no news about it as of this writing.

Has your prayers about Charice's return to Glee been answered? Well, good. You can do her more favor if you pray harder for a Grammy nomination next year.

The 2011 Grammy nominees:

Album of the Year
THE SUBURBS - Arcade Fire
RECOVERY - Eminem
NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum
THE FAME MONSTER - Lady Gaga
TEENAGE DREAM - Katy Perry

Record of the Year
NOTHIN' ON YOU - B.o.B Feat. Bruno Mars
LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE - Eminem Feat. Rihanna
F*** YOU - Cee Lo Green
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum

Song of the Year
BEG STEAL OR BORROW - Ray
LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs
F*** YOU - Cee Lo Green
THE HOUSE THAT BUILT
ME - Miranda Lambert
LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE - Eminem Feat. Rihanna
NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum)

Best New Artist
JUSTIN BIEBER
DRAKE
FLORENCE & THE
MACHINE
MUMFORD & SONS
ESPERANZA SPALDING

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
KING OF ANYTHING - Sara Bareilles
HALO (LIVE) - Beyoncé
CHASING PIRATES - Norah Jones
BAD ROMANCE - Lady Gaga
TEENAGE DREAM - Katy Perry

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
HAVEN'T MET YOU YET - Michael Bublé
THIS IS IT - Michael Jackson
WHATAYA WANT FROM ME - Adam Lambert
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE - Bruno Mars
HALF OF MY HEART - John Mayer

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' (REGIONALS VERSION) - Glee Cast
MISERY - Maroon 5
THE ONLY EXCEPTION - Paramore
BABYFATHER - Sade
HEY, SOUL SISTER (LIVE) – Train

Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
AIRPLANES, PART II - B.o.B, Eminem & Hayley Williams
IMAGINE - Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
IF IT WASN'T FOR BAD - Elton John & Leon Russell
TELEPHONE - Lady Gaga & Beyoncé
CALIFORNIA GURLS - Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg

Best Pop Vocal Album
MY WORLD 2.0 - Justin Bieber
I DREAMED A DREAM - Susan Boyle
THE FAME MONSTER - Lady Gaga
BATTLE STUDIES - John Mayer
TEENAGE DREAM - Katy Perry

Best Dance Recording
ROCKET - Goldfrapp
IN FOR THE KILL - La Roux
DANCE IN THE DARK - Lady Gaga
ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) - Rihanna
DANCING ON MY OWN – Robyn

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
CRAZY LOVE - Michael Bublé
THE GREATEST LOVE
SONGS OF ALL TIME - Barry Manilow
LET IT BE ME: MATHIS
IN NASHVILLE - Johnny Mathis
FLY ME TO THE MOON…THE
GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: VOLUME V - Rod Stewart
LOVE IS THE ANSWER - Barbra Streisand

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
RUN BACK TO YOUR SIDE - Eric Clapton
CROSSROADS - John Mayer
HELTER SKELTER - Paul McCartney
SILVER RIDER - Robert Plant
ANGRY WORLD - Neil Young

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
READY TO START - Arcade Fire
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU - Jeff Beck & Joss Stone
TIGHTEN UP - The Black Keys
RADIOACTIVE - Kings Of Leon
RESISTANCE – Muse

Best Metal Performance
EL DORADO - Iron Maiden
LET THE GUILT GO - Korn
IN YOUR WORDS - Lamb Of God
SUDDEN DEATH - Megadeth
WORLD PAINTED BLOOD – Slayer

Best Rock Song
ANGRY WORLD - Neil Young
LITTLE LION MAN - Mumford & Sons
RADIOACTIVE - Kings Of Leon
RESISTANCE - Muse
TIGHTEN UP - The Black

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2009 Grammy Winners

Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, "Say"

Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Please Read This Letter"

Best New Artist: Adele

Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Rich Woman"

Song of the Year: Coldplay, "Viva la Vida"

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, "Stay"

Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson

Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)

Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"

Best Rock Instrumental Performance: "Peaches En Regalia," Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock

Best Metal Performance: Metallica, "My Apocalypse"

Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, "Wax Simulacra"

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire"

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, "Gravity"

Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows

Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, "Viva la Vida"

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, "Chasing Pavements"

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way

Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, "I Dreamed There Was No War"

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)

Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains

Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, "Miss Independent" (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)

Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, "Be OK"

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, "You've Got the Love I Need"

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Al Green Featuring John Legend, "Stay With Me (by the Sea)"

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Alicia Keys; " Superwoman"

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Ne-Yo, "Miss Independent"

Best Rap Song: Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, "Lollipop" (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Estelle Featuring Kanye West, "American Boy"

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, "Swagga Like Us"

Best Rap Solo Performance: Lil Wayne, "A Milli"

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Natalie Cole, Still Unforgettable

Best Country Album: George Strait, Troubadour

Best Country Song: Sugarland, "Stay" (Jennifer Nettles, songwriter)

Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947

Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner, "Cluster Pluck"

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Killing the Blues"

Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Brad Paisley, "Letter to Me"

Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Carrie Underwood, "Last Name"

Best Reggae Album: Burning Spear, Jah Is Real

Best Hawaiian Music Album: Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Ikena

Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

Best Traditional Folk Album: Pete Seeger, At 89

Best Traditional Blues Album: B.B. King, One Kind Favor

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot

Best Long Form Music Video: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Runnin' Down a Dream"

Best Short Form Music Video: Weezer, "Pork and Beans"

Best Classical Album: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost

Best Classical Crossover Album: The King's Singers, Simple Gifts

Best Classical Contemporary Composition: John Corigliano, composer, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (JoAnn Falletta, conductor)

Best Classical Vocal Performance: John Corigliano, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan

Best Small Ensemble Performance: Spotless Rose, Hymns to the Virgin Mary

Best Chamber Music Performance: Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Gloria Cheng, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Hilary Hahn, Schoenberg, Sibelius: Violin Concertos (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)

Best Choral Performance: Sir Simon Rattle, "Symphony of Psalms"

Best Opera Recording: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Best Orchestral Performance: Shostakovich, "Symphony No. 4," Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Best Engineered Album, Classical: Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago

Best Electronic/Dance Album: Daft Punk, Alive 2007

Best Dance Recording: Daft Punk, "Harder Better Faster Stronger"

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin, The Fight of My Life

Best Traditional Gospel Album: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans

Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Gaither Vocal Band, Lovin' Life

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: CeCe Winans, Thy Kingdom Come

Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album: TobyMac, Alive and Transported

Best Gospel Song: Kirk Franklin, "Help Me Believe"

Best Gospel Performance: Mary Mary, "Get Up"

Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, "Be-Bop"

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly

Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil

Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time

Best Comedy Album: George Carlin, It's Bad For Ya

Best Polka Album: Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, Let the Whole World Sing

Best Contemporary World Music Album: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project

Best Traditional World Music Album: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Best Native American Music Album: Come to Me Great Mystery—Native American Healing Songs

Best Norteño Album: Los Tigres del Norte, Raíces

Best Banda Album: Joan Sebástian, No Es de Madera

Best Tejano Album: Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution, Viva la Revolucion

Best Regional Mexican Album: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera

Best Tropical Latin Album: José Feliciano, Señor Bachata

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: 45, Jaguares

Best Latin Pop Album: Juanes, La Vida...Es un Ratico

Best Musical Show Album: In the Heights

Best Musical Album for Children: They Might Be Giants, Here Come The 123s

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Bill Harley, Yes to Running!

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Natalie Cole, "Here's That Rainy Day" (Nan Schwartz, arranger)

Best Instrumental Arrangement: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, "Define Dancing" (From Wall-E) (Thomas Newman, arranger)

Best Instrumental Composition: "The Adventures of Mutt" (From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

Best Surround Sound Album: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: MGMT, "Electric Feel," Justice Remix (Justice, remixers)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: The Raconteurs (Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III), Consolers of the Lonely

Best Historical Album: Art of Field Recording, Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music (Documented by Art Rosenbaum)

Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: In Rainbows

Best Recording Package: Metallica, Death Magnetic (Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors)

Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, "Down to Earth" (From Wall-E)

Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno

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