Yahoo! News: Grammy Awards

Country singer Ray Price recovering after surgery (AP)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:19:47 GMT

AP - A spokesman for Grammy winning country musician Ray Price says the singer is home in Texas recuperating after surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

Eason Chan, Jay Chou win Mandarin pop music awards (AFP)

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:31:08 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/grammy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/wl_asia_afp/entertainmenttaiwanmusic"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090627/capt.photo_1246127372402-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=117&q=85&sig=LhZDb9IhrSir5LUkZzqadA--" align="left" height="117" width="130" alt="Hong Kong singer Eason Chan poses with his trophy after winning the Best Album award during the 20th Golden Melody Awards in Taipei.(AFP/Sam Yeh)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Hong Kong's Eason Chan and Taiwanese pop prince Jay Chou garnered top honours Saturday at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards, dubbed the Chinese-language Grammys.

Estelle to headline Stockholm Jazz Festival (AP)

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:09:02 GMT

AP - Grammy-winning British singer Estelle will replace Lauryn Hill as the headline act at this year's Stockholm Jazz Festival.

Daughtry prepping new album next month (Reuters)

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:46:56 GMT

Reuters - Chris Daughtry is famous -- hard not to be, what with the "American Idol" thing and the heartthrob thing and Grammy Award nomination thing and the gazillion records sold thing.

Court records: Singer Usher files for divorce (AP)

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:39:01 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/grammy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090613/ap_en_ce/us_people_usher_divorce"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090613/capt.88606c1577d6489cabd60d2b5df79468.people_usher_divorce_ny143.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=9ifz.p9ZBAU7kWKjDTO9fA--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="FILE - In this May 27, 2008 file photo, Usher appears onstage during MTV's 'Total Request Live' at the MTV Times Square Studios in New York. Court records show singer Usher has filed for divorce from Tameka Foster Raymond after less than two years of marriage. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Court records show singer Usher has filed for divorce from Tameka Foster Raymond after less than two years of marriage. The 30-year-old Grammy-winning artist, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, filed the petition Friday in Superior Court in Atlanta. The court record did not give any details about the split between the R&B star and his wife, who were married in August 2007.

"Loving" ends writer's block for Griffith (Reuters)

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:55:08 GMT

Reuters - Before recording her first album of all-new material since 2005, Nanci Griffith suffered a serious case of writer's block. "The direction the country was going in broke my heart," the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter recalls. "I didn't want to write."

Barzee, Cullum, Hensley, Swenson Will Test Hornsby Musical, 'Sick Bastard'; Marshall Directs (Playbill)

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:14:00 GMT

Playbill - Sick Bastard, a new musical with music and lyrics by three-time Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby, will get a private industry reading directed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall the week of June 15.

Natalie Cole to resume singing tour after surgery (Reuters)

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:32:11 GMT

Reuters - Grammy-winner Natalie Cole on Tuesday said she will return to singing in September following a recent kidney transplant, and she set her first performance in the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Despite success, Griffin says she's a D-lister (AP)

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:49:49 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/grammy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_q_a_kathy_griffin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090608/capt.193d718ede1d4d2f96d86a1f57153771.tv_q_a_kathy_griffin_nyet247.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=8HwowXfKsliQvKcXmXxWhw--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="FILE - In this June 3, 2009 file photo, Kathy Griffin attends the 34th annual Gracie Awards, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Kathy Griffin has won two Emmys for "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," now in its fifth season on Bravo. Her standup shows often sell out. Her 2008 comedy album, "For Your Consideration," was nominated for a Grammy (George Carlin won the award posthumously). And her memoir comes out in September.

No more polka album Grammys for Jimmy Sturr (AP)

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:25:03 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/grammy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090605/ap_on_en_mu/us_polka_last_waltz"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090605/capt.508ca7072fed4af19e6676a5d27c5be9.polka_last_waltz_nyet234.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=JKavZ8bq2M5Fc2ZMuAb40A--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2006, file photo, Jimmy Sturr is shown at the Farm Aid Concert in Camden, N.J. (AP Photo/Tim Larsen, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of sausage aside, fling his lederhosen in the closet and go out and shed a few tears in his beer.

Blues queen Koko Taylor dies at 80 (AP)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:08:56 GMT

AP - Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.

Record label says Koko Taylor is dead (AP)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:51:32 GMT

AP - Record label: Grammy-winning blues singer Koko Taylor dies in Chicago at age 80.