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BLACK HISTORY MONTH and the American Experience
Focus
U2 Upstages Mariah With Five Grammys
Carry takes home
three awards
Kelly Rowland (from left), Beyonce Knowles and Michelle Will
iams o f the musical group Destiny's Child, announce the winner
o f the Grammy for song o f the year to U2 for “Sometimes You
Can't Make it on Your Own. " (AP photo)
(A P)— The Grammys finally showed Mariah
Carey a little love - with an em phasis on "little.”
Though C arey, 2005's biggest pop success,
had a leading eight nom inations and the chance
to make history with the most G ram m ys won by
a w oman in a single night, she went hom e with
ju st three trophies. She lost in all o f the m ajor
categories she was nom inated for, including
record, song and album o f the year.
Instead, U2 got the glory during the Feb. 8
cerem onies, as the perennial favorites captured
five Grammy awards for "How to D ism antle An
A tomic Bom b,” including album o f the year.
“W e have to go through certain things in
order to appreciate life and learn lessons,”
Carey told the TV show “Extra.” Asked how she
was doing, Carey replied, “ I’m ju st in a really
good, com fortable, happy place."
It w as the second tim e U2 had won for best
album since 1987, w hen it won for “The Joshua
T ree.” It was the group’s 20th G ram m y, and the
eighth tocom e from the album. Besides the five
this year, its hit single, “Vertigo,” released in fall
2004 well before the album , took three aw ards
last year.
“ If you think this is going to go to our head,
it’s too late,” U2 frontm an Bono said after the
group won song o f the year for "Som etim es
You C an ’t Make It On Your O w n." A fter w in
ning the nig h t's big aw ard, album o f the year,
Bono told Carey, “You sing like an angel."
Best female pop vocal perform ance w ent to
Kelly C larkson’s trium phant “Since U Been
G one.” Clarkson also won the aw ard for best
pop album.
John Legend won three awards: best new
artist, best R&B album for his debut, “Get
U2 lead singer and renowned social
activist, Bono.
Lilted," and best male R&B vocal for the piano
ballad “O rdinary People." His mentor, Kanye
W est, also won three, including best rap album
for "Late Registration.”
“ I had no idea, I had no idea,” W est said in
mock shock as he pulled a huge sheet o f paper
that read “Thank You List.”
A highlight was the appearance o f Sly Stone,
the mercurial, psychedelic soul-rock pioneer
w ho hadn't appeared in public since 1993 and
h ad n 't perform ed publicly since 1987.
Tow ard the end of a sizzling all-star tribute to
Stone, the man him self em erged, sporting a
blond m ohawk against his 61-year-old brown
scalp, and m ade his way through “I W ant To
Take You H igher.” Though the tribute was
planned, many d idn’t expect Stone to show up.
Form er Beatle Paul M cCartney was featured
in the night’s most intriguing mash-up, walking
Siren’s Echo DVD
World famous DJ Chill is
hosting a DVD release party
featuring Sirens Echo on their
release “Follow The Sounds,"
on Saturday, Feb. 18. The 8
p.m. concert presented by
Step Child Music will take
place at Doug Fir lounge on
8 03 E. Burnside. Music
lovers over 21 are welcome
with a $10 cover charge.
Hometown
from Young Katrina Survivors
fro m M etro
"D ream s”, "O ur H om etow n”, and
“The Journey to Portland,” along
with several o f the artists, will be on
hand during the Last Thursday
event in honor o f Black History
M onth.
These murals are personal testi
monials o f what is already viewed as
an important time in African-Ameri
can history. They will become part of
the Black United Fund’s permanent
art collection for display in a future
onstage to sing “Yesterday” with rockers Li nkin
Park and rap mogul Jay-Z.
Stevie W onder, w ho released his first album
in a decade last year, had two gram m ys.
A brief, impromptu perform ance by W onder
and A licia Keys was the first to energize the
crowd. W onder pulled out his harm onica and
the tw o soulfully sang his classic “ Higher
G round" as a tribute to C oretta Scott King,
w hose funeral was a day earlier.
“L et’s keep trying to reach that higher
ground,” Keys said. “I forever want to reach
that higher ground.”
Jazz really does try to include
everything. It's
always been
fl
popular music.
But the
wonderful thing
about jazz is its
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willingness to
take chances...
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Mariah Carey performs at the 48th Annual
Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. (AP photo)
African-American museum.
The murals are not for sale, but
sets of greeting cards featuring the
i mages wi 11 be a vai lable a, the e vent.
All proceeds from the sale o f these
cards go directly to the Black United
F und' s local hurricane relief effo rt.
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