Quincy Jones named `Mentor of the Year'
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Quincy Jones' stockpile of awards is about to grow higher &#151; he's been named "Mentor of the Year," by Harvard University's School of Public Health.
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The rapper received 10 Grammy nominations, while Alicia Keys and Usher received eight. Ray Charles, who died in June, has seven.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Rolling Stones' 1969  album "Let It Bleed" and Bob Marley's 1974 single "No Woman No  Cry" are among the 20 recordings that have been added to the  Grammy Hall of Fame, which honors works of "lasting qualitative  or historical significance that are at least 25 years old."
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Judging by the Source Awards, 2004 is the year of the producer/artist: Kanye West and Lil Jon led all winners by snaring three awards apiece at the ceremony, which took place on Saturday night in Miami.
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By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 18--Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, soul singer Otis Redding, poet Langston Hughes and the first African-American millionaire, Madam C.J.
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Influential rock bands The Doors and the Grateful Dead will receive lifetime achievement Grammy Awards next year, along with jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman and the late opera singer Maria Callas, organizers said on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES - The Lakers' Phil Jackson will pass late Celtics legend Red Auerbach on the all-time coaching wins list. But it didn't happen on the Celtics' watch.
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Rap artist and producer Kanye West is the King of the hill when it comes to Grammy award nominations. The Rap master is nominated for for 10 Grammy awards, the most since Carlos Santana did it in 1989.
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Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls, who has helped raise more than &#36;200 million for the United Negro College Fund, is getting an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University in Ohio.
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ATHENS, Greece - Marion Jones of the US finished fifth in Friday&#39;s women&#39;s long-jump final, her only opportunity to win an individual medal at the Athens Olympics.
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Herbie Hancock won the coveted album of the year Grammy on Sunday, becoming the first jazz instrumentalist to win the honor in more than 40 years and causing Hancock to remark "it's a new day" at the Grammys.
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LOS ANGELES -- Grammy voters can&#39;t stop loving Ray Charles or, for that matter, the R&amp;B-rooted music of freshman rapper Kanye West, contemporary R&amp;B singer Usher and neo-soul singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, a formidable foursome who among them garnered 33
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This year's Grammy Awards  tabulations reveal again, especially in jazz, that David-like  lean slays Goliath-like bulk. Case in point: the upstart Zoho  Music label, which boasted two nominations in the Latin jazz  category.
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Led Zeppelin and  Janis Joplin--who amazingly never won a competitive   Grammy--lead the list of recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement   Grammys, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday.
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In September, he was accused of having ties to terrorism. Today, he&#39;s been honored as a ``Man for Peace.&#39;&#39;. The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens was praised at a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Rome.
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John Legend, Lil Mama, Corinne Bailey Rae and gospel singer Shirley Caesar paid their "Respect" to Aretha Franklin in a musical tribute to the Queen of Soul.
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Ray Charles, posthumously nominated for seven Grammys &#151; including album of the year for "Genius Loves Company" &#151; will be honored in a tribute at next month's awards show.