List of stars set to honour Bruce Springsteen – MusiCares Person of the Year

As part of the build up to music’s big night, aka The Grammys, Bruce Springstreen is set to be honoured at the 2013 MusiCares Person of the Year this year. In the press release, the special event will honour Springsteen for his “exceptional artistic achievements as well as his philanthropic work”. The money raised from the event will go into the MusiCares Foundation for people in music who run into trouble, financially, medically or personally.

The event, in its 23rd year, is completely sold out. It’s set to take place on the 8th of February at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Jon Stewart will host the event and Alabama Shakes, Jackson Browne, Kenny Chesney, Ben Harper, Emmylou Harris, Faith Hill, Jim James, Elton John, Juanes, John Legend, Natalie Maines, Tim McGraw, Tom Morello, Mumford & Sons, Patti Smith, Mavis Staples, Sting, Eddie Vedder, and Neil Young will all be in attendance. They are also set to perform. Feeling the FOMO already!!

Stay tuned for more on music’s big night, coming to you on the 10th of Feb at the Staples Center in LA.

 

Grammys 2012 – Guetta, Brown, Lil Wayne, Deadmau5… all in five minutes

David Guetta, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne on stage performing I Can Only Imagine… DeadMau5 and the Foo Fighters on the other side performing Rope and Raise You Weapon. Good mix of dance, urban, rock and electronic. What did you think of this performance?

Grammys 2012 – Jennifer Hudson sings to Whitney Houston

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Jennifer Hudson takes to the stage for the special tribute to Whitney Houston and others, whom we lost this year, singing arguably her biggest song ever: I Will Always Love You.

“Whitney We Love you”

Grammys 2012 – The Band Perry, Blake Shelton and Glenn Campbell perform

The Band Perry performed on the Grammy stage. Their performance was dedicated to great Glen Campbell. Their performance was followed by Blake Shelton and then of course Mr. Campbell himself. He performed his massive track Rhinestone Cowboy. This Country Hall of Fame inductee has over 70 albums and over 45million record sales to his name. He is one of the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, along with Diana Ross and others.

Grammys 2012 – Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney

Stevie Wonder introduced the legendary Paul McCartney but before he did that he said, “I just want to say to Whitney up in heaven, we love you Whitney Houston” Love love we do,you know I love you! Sir Paul then sang the track My Valentine. Fantastic!!!

- Best R&B Album winner is Chris Brown for F.A.M.E.

“Thank you. First and foremost I want to thank God. Thank you to the Grammys for allowing me to do my thing. Team Breezy man. We got one”

“We’d like to thank all our opening acts tonight.” The Civil Wars frontman, John  Paul White haha. They then introduced Taylor Swift, who also performed. Swift has already won two awards tonight.  Throwback to the 30s with this track of hers.

Grammys 2012 – Rihanna and Colplay

Acoustic version of “We Found Love” from Rihanna, which then moved into the version we like. Great performance and the choreography is on point too. Slowing things down a bit, Chris Martin of Coldplay started singing Princess of China with Rihanna.The rest of the band then joined Chris Martin on stage singing their hit single Paradise. You might recall this video was recorded in South Africa last year. He doesn’t sound as good as he did during the concert, but it’s still a great performance.

Grammys 2012 – Foo Fighters perform outside the Staples Center

Jack Black and all his groupies introduced Grammy winners the Foo Fighters. They’ve already won four awards tonight. They’re performing outside the Staples Center for fans. What a cool idea to get the normal people an opportunity to experience the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Rocking

Grammys 2012 – Best Pop Solo Performance: Adele

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Alicia Keys and Bonny Rait perform a special tribute to the late Etta James by singing a Sunday Kind of Love. This is musical talent!

Adele wins Best Pop Solo performance. She said, “I should take my shoes off I’m probably too tall. Thank you, My life changed when I wrote this song. I need to thank my doctors who brought my voice back. Thank you”

This award was followed by a performance by Chris Brown, who played his track Turn Up The Music and Beautiful People (which he worked with Benny Benassi on).

Grammys 2012 get going

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are here. The show got going with a rocking performance from Bruce Springsteen. He kicked it off with a song called Take Care of Our Own as far as I can tell.

Host LL Cool J came on. “Thank you Bruce. Speaking to our times. We ask ourselves how to we speak to ourselves, this day. The only thing that feels right is to begin with a prayer.” A montage of Whitney moments is up on the screens. A performance of her singing I will always love you on the Grammy stage from a few years back. No doubt this brought tears to the eyes of many.

Bruno Mars, wearing a sick gold tux, put on a great performance of his track Runaway Baby. A nice way to lift the mood a bit.Let’s celebrate music.

It’s Grammy weekend!

It’s Grammy weekend!!! One of my favourite award ceremonies of the season. Music is a universal language, one that unites us. The 54^th Annual Grammys hits our screens on Sunday evening/ Monday morning and the show will honour some of the biggest names in the business. Performances from Adele, The Foo Fighters, Chris Brown, Tony Bennett, Coldplay and Rihanna, Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson and many many more are expected, while LL Cool J will be on hosting duty.

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The festivities getting going on E! Entertainment, channel 124 on DStv from 01:00 with Live From The Red Carpet. The team will be broadcasting from the Staples Centre in Los Angelas. Catch Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic as they chat to the biggest names of the red carpet and the all time favourite Glam Cam 360 will be catching all the talent on camera, with some commentary from Kelly Osbourne and others.

Once the red carpet is done, switch over to Channel O, channel 320 on DStv for a live broadcast of the awards. I’ll be up, tweeting and blogging at the absurd hour but it’s all for the love of the game. If you’re in my part of the world join me:

@JasonVonBerg

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