List of Grammy winners: Adele, Foo Fighters, civil wars and more

List of Grammy winners: Adele, Foo Fighters, civil wars and more:  Here is a account of winners at the 2012 Grammy Awards, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.

Pop articulate album: Adele's 21

Album of the year: Adele's 21

Record of the year: Adele's Rolling the Deep

Best pop abandoned performance: Adele's Someone Like You

Song of the year: Adele's Rolling in the Deep

Short-form music video: Adele’s Rolling in the Deep

Best bedrock performance: Foo Fighters' Walk

Long-form music video: Foo Fighters’ Back and Forth

Hard rock/metal performance: Foo Fighters’ White Limo

Rock song: Foo Fighters’ Walk

Rock Album: Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light

Best rap performance: Otis, by Kanye West and Jay-Z

Rap performance: Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Otis

Best new artist: Bon Iver

Alternative music album: Bon Iver’s Bon Iver

Country duo/group performance: The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow

Folk album: The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow

Country abandoned performance: Taylor Swift’s Mean

Country song: Taylor Swift’s Mean

Dance recording: Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

Dance/electronica album: Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

R&B album: Chris Brown's F.A.M.E.

Country album: Lady Antebellum's Own the Night

Recording package: Caroline Robert’s Scenes from The Suburbs, for Arcade Fire

Pop duo/group performance: Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse’s Body and Soul

Pop active album: Booker T. Jones’ The Road from Memphis

Traditional pop articulate album: Tony Bennett and assorted artists’ Duets II

R&B performance: Corinne Bailey Rae’s Is This Love

Traditional R&B performance: Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona’s Fool for You

R&B song: Cee Lo Green and Co.’s Fool for You

Rap/sung collaboration: Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie’s All of the Lights

Rap song: All of the Lights

Rap album: Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

New age album: Pet Metheny’s What’s It All About

Improvised applesauce solo: Chick Corea’s 500 Miles High

Jazz articulate album: Terri Lyne Carrington and assorted artists’ The Mosaic Project

Jazz instrumental: Corea, Clarke and White’s Forever

Large applesauce ensemble: Christian McBride Big Band’s The Good Feeling

Gospel/contemporary Christian music performance: Le’Andria Johnson’s Jesus

Gospel song: Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear

Contemporary Christian music song: Laura Story’s Blessings

Gospel album: Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear

Contemporary Christian music album: Chris Tomlin’s And If Our God Is For Us…

Latin pop, bedrock or burghal album: Mana’s Drama Y Luz

Regional Mexican or Tejano album: Pepe Aguilar’s Bicentenario

Bands or Norteno album: Los Tigres Del Norte’s Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends

Tropical Latin album: Cachao’s The Last Mambo

Americana album: Levon Helm’s Ramble at the Ryman

Bluegrass album: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Paper Airplane

Blues album: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Revelator

Regional roots music album: Rebirth Brass Band’s Rebirth of New Orleans

Reggae album: Stephen Marley’s Revelatino Pt. 1: The Root of Life

World music album: Tinariwen’s Tassili

Children’s album: All About Bullies… Big & Small

Spoken apple anthology (includes poetry, audio books and adventure telling): Betty White’s If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)

Comedy album: Louis C.K.’s Hilarious

Musical theatre album: The Book of Mormom

Compilation soundtrack for beheld media: Boardwalk Empire: Vol. 1

Score soundtrack for beheld media: Alexandre Desplat’s The King’s Speech

Song accounting for beheld media: I See the Light (from Tangled)

Instrumental composition: Bela Fleck and Howard Levy’s Life in Eleven

Instrumental arrangement: Gordon Goodwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Instrumental adjustment accompanying vocalist: Jorge Calandrelli’s Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me), for Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah

Boxed or appropriate bound copy package: Dave Bett and Michelle Holme’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story

Album notes: Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s

Historical album: Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition)

Engineered album, non-classical: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Paper Airplane

Producer of the year, non-classical: Paul Epworth

Remixed recording, non-classical: Cinema (Skrillex Remix)

Surround complete album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)

Engineered album, classical: Aldridge: Elmer Gantry

Producer of the year, classical: Judith Sherman

Orchestral performance: Brahms, Symphony No. 4 by Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

Opera recording: Adams: Doctor Atomic

Choral performance: Light & Gold - Eric Whitacre, aqueduct (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)

Small-ensemble performance: Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide

Classical active solo: Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Christopher Lamb, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Nashville Symphony

Classical articulate solo: Joyce DiDonato with Kazushi Ono and Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon with Choeur de l’Opera National de Lyon for Diva Divo

Contemporary classical composition: Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Elmer Gantry

2012 Grammy Awards: chi sono le guerre civili?

2012 Grammy Awards: chi sono le guerre civili?If you're a fan of "The Hunger Games" or Taylor Swift, you've acceptable already heard of the country music accumulation the Civil Wars. This year's Grammy winners for Best Country Duo/Group Achievement and Best Folk Anthology collaborated with Swift on the aboriginal "Hunger Games" single, "Safe & Sound." The duo acted as the aperture act for Swift as they performed their hit "Barton Hollow." So who absolutely are the Civil Wars? Even admitting they're authoritative their boilerplate blemish now, the bandage in fact came out of Nashville in 2008. Members Joy Williams and John Paul White reportedly met during a "professional dark date" songwriting affair at a music flat that year and anon hit it off.
Before absolution an anthology or EP, the Civil Wars recorded their achievement at Georgia's music club Eddie's Attic in 2009 — their additional time assuming calm reside — and fabricated it accessible for chargeless download on the Internet. The set included eight aboriginal songs and a awning of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love."
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But it wasn't until after that year that the bandage started to apparent in the accessible awareness. In November 2009, White and Williams appear a agenda continued play anthology alleged "Poison & Wine." The appellation clue was featured on "Grey's Anatomy," the ABC medical ball that helped added the careers of added aloof artists like Ingrid Michaelson and The Fray.
It was again that they bent the absorption of Swift. According to the Civil Wars' website, Swift tweeted her adulation of the country duo and included "Poison & Wine" on her official iTunes playlist. "I anticipate this is my admired duet. It's exquisite," she said of the song.
Fast advanced to 2011. The Civil Wars appear their aboriginal flat album, Barton Hollow, in February, and it accomplished #12 on the Billboard albums 2011 chart. It absolutely helped that the bandage was aswell the aperture act for Adele's 2011 North American tour. After in the year, Williams and White rejoined the Grammy champ on her UK bout and were alien to the British music scene.
The duo — who are alone a brace professionally — accept a lot to acknowledge Swift for, abnormally for their accord on "Safe & Sound." Swift will be accommodating in an MTV Aboriginal on Monday at 7:54 p.m., if she will admission the music video for the song, and aswell participate in an absolute babble with MTV News. Fans can abide their questions for Swift via Twitter @MTVNews with the hashtags #AskTaylor or #MTVFirst. "It was [perfect], abnormally enough," Williams told MTV News of accommodating with Swift and artisan T-Bone Burnett. "John Paul and I address all of our own music, so it's not as accepted anymore for us to be accommodating with added people. But, T-Bone and Taylor Swift: It was just natural."
The "Hunger Games" soundtrack, which aswell appearance Arcade Fire and the Decemberists, drops March 20. The cine hits theaters canicule later, on March 23.