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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - With all the Grammy-night focus on Whitney and Adele, a rather remarkable accomplishment took place on Sunday night without much notice: Scott Rudin won a Grammy for producing the original cast album to the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon." By itself, the Grammy would be just another award …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soul singer Adele triumphed in her return to music's stage on Sunday, scooping up six Grammys and winning every category in which she was nominated including album of the year for "21" and best record with "Rolling In the Deep." As joyous as the show was for Adele, it was equally as serious with …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bumper 40 million U.S. viewers watched Sunday's Grammy Awards, drawn in by the death of Whitney Houston and the performance comeback of Adele, and kept watching by a controversial religious stage act by rapper Nicki Minaj. The telecast drew 39.9 million viewers -- the second-largest Grammy TV audience …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The show must go on. Despite Whitney Houston's shocking death a day earlier, music stars came out to celebrate Sunday's Grammy Awards with typical red carpet flash and over-the-top fashion. Several artists exuded glamour, including Carrie Underwood, nominated for best country solo performance, who …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Music producer Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party is typically one of the most fun-filled highlights of the week leading to the music industry's top awards, but this year's event quickly turned into a tribute for Whitney Houston, who died earlier in the day. On the red carpet outside Saturday night's …

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A few blocks from the Mississippi River levee where a homeless W.C. Handy composed "St. Louis Blues" more than 100 years ago, the first national blues museum in the United States is taking shape. While several regional blues museums have popped up around the country -- Memphis, Tennessee; Clarksdale, …

NEW YORK, Feb 12 (TheWrap.com) - While phoning into Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show on Friday, Madonna blasted M.I.A. for flipping the bird during their Super Bowl halftime performance. "I was really surprised," the Queen of Pop told Seacrest. "I didn't know anything about it. I wasn't happy about it. I understand it's …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney racked up yet another honor on Friday when he received the MusiCares' 2012 Person of the Year award at a star-studded ceremony hosted by Grammy organizers ahead of this weekend's major music awards. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dance music steps out of its niche and joins the Grammy party on Sunday, crowning its journey from the underground rave scene to the mainstream music industry. Just as hip-hop was finally embraced by Grammy organizers in 1989, electronica comes of age this year with a DJ nominated for best new artist …

LOS ANGELES/NEWARK (Reuters) - Whitney Houston's body arrived in her home state of New Jersey on Monday night, ahead of a funeral expected later this week for the pop superstar whose blockbuster career was often overshadowed by drug and alcohol abuse. A plane owned by actor-producer Tyler Perry landed at an airport in Teterboro, …

(Reuters) - Adele wowed fans on Friday in her first public singing outing since throat surgery in November, putting to rest fears that her distinctive husky voice may have been damaged. The soulful British singer, 23, is due to make her official performance comeback at the Grammy Awards on Sunday where she is expected to …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Whitney Houston was "underwater and apparently unconscious" when she was discovered in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathtub, police said on Monday, as her body was reported to be heading home to New Jersey. Beverly Hills Police, in a written statement released to address "many rumors" circulating …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Adele may be a safe bet to clean up at Sunday's Grammy Awards, but if music fans think that means a night of few surprises, they should ask Justin Bieber. The Canadian teen idol left the Grammys empty-handed last year after losing the best new artist award to jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - Lady Gaga: Singer. Songwriter. Pioneer in meat-based attire. General curiosity. And now, social-media mogul in training. The "Born This Way" chanteuse has launched a new social-media site, LittleMonsters.com, for her fans to convene, share information and, no doubt, rave about the awesomeness …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From the New Jersey church where Whitney Houston's singing career first took flight to the Beverly Hills hotel where her life abruptly ended, family and fans of the pop diva expressed their grief on Sunday with prayer, tears and raw anguish. Houston's only child, daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, 18, …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As little as 24 hours ago, all ears at Sunday's Grammy Awards were expected to tune-in to the sound of soul singer Adele, who was predicted to be the top winner on music's big night. Then Whitney Houston died. Houston's unexplained death in a Beverly Hills hotel room on the eve of the industry's …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Grammys in recent years have targeted young audiences even as older acts won key awards to the surprise of some music fans, but this Sunday's honors will shine its spotlight on Adele, whose popularity crosses all age boundaries. The soulful British singer, whose album "21" has spawned massive …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angry musicians will protest outside Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony over a decision to cut 31 ethnic and minority musical categories from the music industry's top awards. Organizers said on Wednesday they hoped dozens of music artists and fans of Latin jazz, gospel and blues music would join in …

LONDON (Reuters) - American singer Lana Del Rey held onto the top spot of the UK album charts on Sunday, but could be dislodged soon by an expected surge in sales of music by late singer Whitney Houston, the Official Charts Company said. Houston, whose powerful voice lifted her to the top of pop music world but whose personal …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Grammy nominees Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Adele take note: first you could Shazam the Super Bowl, and now you can Shazam the Grammy Awards. Shazam and the Recording Academy announced Thursday that viewers will be able to use the app during the awards show to free up exclusive behind-the-scenes …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "A Different Kind of Truth" is a pretty ponderous name for a not very ponderous album -- Van Halen's first in 28 years with David Lee Roth as frontman. If they'd been in as cheeky a mood titling it as they were in recording it, maybe they could have gone with: "1985." That's how directly this …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After weeks of hype and ridicule, singer Lana Del Rey had the last laugh on Wednesday by scoring the week's highest debut on the Billboard 200 album chart with her new record "Born To Die." New York native Del Rey, who had the Internet abuzz especially after a shaky performance on U.S. sketch show …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iconic 1960s band The Beach Boys will perform together for the first time in more than 20 years at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, organizers said. Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks will sing with Maroon 5 and indie rock band Foster The People in what Grammy organizers …