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The Road to the GRAMMY Awards
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The Road to the GRAMMY Awards

Author Kimber
Introduction: History of the GRAMMY Awards On May 4, 1959, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (presently, Recording Academy) hosted the first GRAMMY Awards ceremony at simultaneous banquets held in Beverly Hills and New York. Celebrating recordings from 1958, the initial ceremony was not televised and was attended by industry insiders and select [...]
Revisit: Monterey International Pop Festival: Music, Love, and Flowers, 1967
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Revisit: Monterey International Pop Festival: Music, Love, and Flowers, 1967

Author Kimber
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT In May 2017, the GRAMMY Museum, in collaboration with Lou Adler, GRAMMY®-winning producer and co-founder of the Monterey International Pop Festival, presented Monterey International Pop Festival: Music, Love, and Flowers, 1967. Fifty years after the legendary music festival, the exhibit explored how music became the counterculture's most significant cultural expression in 1967, [...]
Revisit: Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Revisit: Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Author Kimber
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT Stevie Ray Vaughan was the most significant guitar stylist of the post-blues-rock era.  No musician did more to energize the 1980s blues revival than the Texas guitarist, whose roots and influences included everyone from Albert and B.B. King, Guitar Slim, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, to Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy.  Vaughan ignited [...]
Revisit: The British Invasion: How 1960s Beat Groups Conquered America
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Revisit: The British Invasion: How 1960s Beat Groups Conquered America

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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT American popular music experienced a seismic shift in 1964.  That year, British bands launched what became commonly known as an “invasion” of the American pop charts and culture.  Led by The Beatles, other British bands and artists such as the Rolling Stones, Donovan, the Dave Clark Five, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, the [...]
Peggy Lee 100th Birthday Celebration Digital Exhibit
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Peggy Lee 100th Birthday Celebration Digital Exhibit

Author Kimber
The GRAMMY Museum® announces Peggy Lee 100th Birthday Celebration in honor of the centennial anniversary of one of the 20th century's most important musical influences in the world of jazz and popular music. To commemorate the occasion and Lee's life, music and legacy, the GRAMMY Museum will host a pre-taped panel discussion and birthday toast [...]
Revisit: Leonard Bernstein at 100
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Revisit: Leonard Bernstein at 100

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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT Leonard Bernstein was the greatest and most important classical music figure in American history.  A conductor, composer, educator, concert pianist, philanthropist, and political activist, Bernstein revolutionized the role of the classical musician.  As handsome as a Hollywood star and gifted with an engaging and powerful personality, Bernstein became a music icon, the [...]
Revisit: Deep Heart: Roots, Rock & the Music of Carlos Vives
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Revisit: Deep Heart: Roots, Rock & the Music of Carlos Vives

Author Kimber
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT On November 13, 2017, the GRAMMY Museum opened Deep Heart: Roots, Rock & the Music of Carlos Vives, an exhibit that offered visitors an in-depth look at the iconic career of the two-time GRAMMY-winning and 11-time Latin GRAMMY-winning Colombian singer-songwriter who pioneered the integration of the indigenous and vallenato sounds of his [...]
Revisit: Beyond Black – The Style of Amy Winehouse
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Revisit: Beyond Black – The Style of Amy Winehouse

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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT Six-time GRAMMY Award-winner Amy Winehouse has been widely renowned not just as a British music icon and pop royalty, but as a trendsetting fashion influencer. To celebrate the late singer’s iconic outfits and impact on music, the GRAMMY Museum proudly presents Beyond Black – The Style Of Amy Winehouse. Beyond Black — [...]