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Norah's night
in New York Jones' Come
Away With Me won Best Album, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered
Album, Non-Classical, while her Don't Know Why won Record of the
Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Jones
also took the Best New Artist trophy over Avril Lavigne, Ashanti,
Michelle Branch and John Mayer. "I love
you so much," Jones told her band in accepting her Best New
Artist trophy. "You're the reason I do this." Come Away With
Me also won the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical award for Arif
Mardin. Bruce Springsteen
and the Dixie Chicks followed Jones with three wins apiece. The
Boss' The Rising won Best Rock Album, and the title track nabbed
Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, while the Dixie
Chicks won Best Country Album for Home, Best Country Performance
by a Duo or Group With Vocal for Long Time Gone and Best Country
Instrumental Performance for Lil' Jack Slade. Eminem lost
in the Album of the Year category for the second time, but The Eminem
Show won Best Rap Album and Without Me won Best Short Form Music
Video. Other multiple
winners included Coldplay, India.Arie and Nelly, who won Best Male
Rap Solo Performance with Hot in Herre and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
with his Kelly Rowland duet, Dilemma. Coldplay, who performed Politik
with the New York Philharmonic, won Best Alternative Music Album
for A Rush of Blood to the Head and Best Rock Performance by a Duo
or Group With Vocal for In My Place," while Indie.Arie won
Best R&B Album for Voyage to India and Best Urban/Alternative
Performance for Little Things. No Doubt won
the first award of the ceremony, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or
Group With Vocal for Hey Baby, just minutes after performing a medley
of Underneath It All and Hella Good. The show opened with a reunion
by Simon and Garfunkel, who sang The Sound of Silence. After crooning
Your Body Is a Wonderland in between performances by Vanessa Carlton
and James Taylor, a casually dressed John Mayer won Best Male Pop
Vocal Performance for the song, beating out Taylor and other veterans
Elton John and Sting. The Foo Fighters,
whose Dave Grohl presented with Lou Reed earlier in the night, won
the Best Hard Rock Performance for All My Life. In other notable
categories, Santana and Michelle Branch's The Game of Love won Best
Pop Collaboration With Vocals, Sheryl Crow's Steve McQueen won Best
Female Rock Vocal Performance, Korn's Here to Stay won Best Metal
Performance, and Dirty Vegas' Days Go By won Best Dance Recording. In the other
rap contests, Missy Elliott's Scream a.k.a. Itchin won Best Female
Rap Solo Performance, and Outkast's The Whole World won Best Rap
Performance by a Duo or Group. In R&B,
Ashanti's self-titled debut won Best Contemporary R&B. Mary
J. Blige garnered Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for He Think
I Don't Know, and Usher won Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
for U Don't Have to Call. The Best R&B Song went to Erykah Badu
for Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop). This year's 45th annual ceremony, at Madison Square Garden, marked the Grammys' return to New York after four years in Los Angeles. Memorable
moments As the Album
of the Year award brought the evening to a close, nominees Eminem
and Bruce Springsteen stood backstage at Madison Square Garden,
watching a monitor as their names were announced. When Norah
Jones was declared the winner, completing her Grammy sweep, Em's
head sank. The Boss, noticing, simply put his arm over Shady's shoulder,
and the two walked off together into the shadows. Earlier in
the day, Eminem was nowhere to be found during rehearsal. But his
backup band, the Roots, had plenty of people to fill-in while they
pounded away on Lose Yourself. "Snap
back to reality. Oh, there goes gravity," one of the bandmembers
rhymed in front of handful of spectators. Watching a couple of 'NSYNC
members backstage, however, it was obvious the Philadelphia collective
wasn't using the best possible stand-in. "Oh, there
goes Rabbit, he choked/ He's so mad, but he won't/ Give up that
easy/ No, he won't have it," an enthralled Chris Kirkpatrick
rapped along. Joey Fatone,
meanwhile, took a break from his cell phone conversation to play
backup dancer, stomping his feet up and down like a Greek fraternity
stepper and bouncing his hands up and down like Snoop Dogg in the
video for Gin and Juice. Earlier in
the afternoon, Nelly, draped in his usual Vokal sweat suit, was
practising with Kelly Rowland. "Whoooo!
Now that's the Queen," Nelly yelled with approval as Kelly
did some fervent ad-libs of her chorus to Dilemma. Meanwhile,
the show's organisers and the Garden crew were getting ready - vacuuming
carpet, moving equipment. The NYPD let the dogs out (the bomb-sniffing
dogs) to make sure everything was safe, and the stars were very
incognito as they walked in and out for last-minute preparations,
narrowly missing each other. Avril Lavigne exited, camouflage book
bag in tow, moments before a gray-bearded Robin Williams arrived.
Blues legend B.B. King entered just seconds after Eve bolted for
her hotel. Rod Stewart
took the opportunity to ride the empty elevator up to the celebrity
and press entrance, but not before snickering to his entourage about
his red carpet experience. "That was the most horrible 20 minutes,"
he laughed before getting in. There was no
laughing later on when Hot Rod and company ran into B.B. King's
crew. "Hold up, hold up, I'm old," one of King's friends
said to Stewart's overzealous talent wrangler, who was practically
pushing the elderly man. Stewart, who
was a few feet away behind a black curtain, was unaware of the situation.
"I have a group coming through," the talent wrangler told
the man. "That
don't have nothing to do with me. You have to wait," the senior
citizen defiantly rebutted. Closer to show
time, a hole was practically being worn in the red carpet from all
the people walking on it, but the press gauntlet was too much for
TLC's T-Boz. "My feet are killing me," she said once she
got inside, sitting down in a waiting area for her publicist. She
never made it as far as her seat, leaving before the show even started. When the show
finally commenced, traffic backstage in the media centre was busier
than goings on in the main arena. "I feel great," Tony
Bennett told a room full of reporters. "I have 11 Grammys.
Outside of [losing to the soundtrack to The Adventures of Elmo in
Grouchland], I've won every time [I've been nominated]. I'm still
mad at Elmo." Usher tried
to play like he was mad at Chilli, but he was obviously enjoying
her frisky displays of affection as they walked from media outlet
to outlet. "Stop it, stop it," he kept giggling as she
pinched him every few feet. "Stop iiiiit," he continued
to chuckle until they made their destination. Usher wasn't
the only singer the petite ATL songstress showed love to. She gave
hugs to Kelly and Ashanti, who were also making their rounds with
the press. "Congratulations, girl," Chilli told Ashanti,
who won Best Contemporary R&B Album during the pre-telecast. "I love
you," Ashanti responded. Unfortunately
for silver-screen funnyman Chevy Chase, it looked like "I love
you" wasn't what he was going to be hearing when he got home
that night. "Who won, who won?" Chase asked a handful
of cheering onlookers watching a backstage monitor. "Nobody
won. Eminem just performed," a woman informed him, much to
his dismay. "Oh, I
missed it," he said, nervously twitching and putting his hands
on head. "My daughter's gonna kill me!" Too bad Chevy
didn't attend the P. Diddy after-hours Grammy party at Lot 61. His
daughter would have been asleep or off to school by the time he
got home. "I don't think y'all understand," Diddy told
his partygoers, who included Jay-Z, Damon Dash, Queen Latifah, Durst,
Slater, Jack Osbourne, "Antwone Fisher" co-star Joy Bryant
and several Bad Boy artists. "This is one of those parties
where you don't wake up the next day, you wake up the next evening
at 7 p.m. and go eat dinner. We gonna do this 'til 8 a.m." Other bashes
thrown around Manhattan Sunday night included joint ventures between
Common and Erykah Badu as well as Nelly and Justin Timberlake. Fat
Joe and the Neptunes also held star-studded fiestas. |
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