AS IT IS - The 55th Grammy Awards From VOA Learning English, welcome to AS IT IS! your daily magazine show in Special English. Im June Simms. Today we hear the story of a 16 year old Ugandan girl who has become an international chess champion. We als...
Explorations - Music Stars Share Their Trade with Kids at Grammy Camp MARIO RITTER: Welcome to Explorations in VOA Special English. Im Mario Ritter. This week, find out about the Mars Science Laboratory known as Curiosity. The American space agency l...
By Ray McDonald Washington 11 February 2008 While the Recording Academy looked back a half-century of Grammy winners, new honorees at Sunday night's ceremony included a rap innovator and a troubled British vocalist who obtained a visa too late to ent...
By Larry London Washington 07 January 2008 For almost a decade, Plain White T's have been performing to packed audiences craving their brand of pop-punk. The band's journey, which began in a suburban basement playing cover songs, has taken the group...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 February 2007 The Dixie Chicks were the big winners at Grammy Awards, Sunday. The singers earned five Grammys -- the highest American music industry honors. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, the evening mark...
Broadcast: Jan 18 2003 While you may not recognize his name, Jim Lauderdale is one of the best-selling songwriters in Nashville. Those hits he's written for artists George Strait, Patty Loveless and T...
Broadcast: Jan 11, 2003 The Recording Academy invited artists of several genres and generations to announce the nominees in 104 categories for the Grammy Awards. At a press conference at New York's Ma...
Broadcast: Jan 07, 2003 Nominations for the 45th annual 2) Grammy Awards, honoring the best of the music industry, were announced in New York today Tuesday. It was a diverse group of artists, includin...
Doug Levine Grammy Award-winning jazz composer, saxophonist and bandleader Benny Carter died Saturday, July 12 in Los Angeles, California at age 95. He had been hospitalized for two weeks with bronchi...