Sen. Obama finally gets his Grammy
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WASHINGTON  - The music industry scored   some brownie points with rising star, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama,   when it handed him its ultimate award on Wednesday, a Grammy   that he won earlier this year for best spoken word album.
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From J.Lo to James Brown, Usher to U2, the Grammys had it all this year &#151; except a lot of interested viewers. An estimated 18.8 million people watched Ray Charles' swan song clean up with eight awards Sunday night, a startling 28 percent drop from the 2004 Grammys.
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Soul legend Aretha Franklin has been honoured by the US music industry ahead of Sunday's Grammys.
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It's been written many times that Democrat Barack Obama gets a "rock star" reception. Turns out the real thing is not quite the same.
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Democrat Barack Obama scored well among every segment of voters, including Republicans, in his landslide victory over GOP candidate Alan Keyes in their bid for the US Senate seat from Illinois.
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The Grammys got soul on Sunday,  honoring Ray Charles' posthumous duets recording with eight  awards, including the coveted album and record of the year  prizes.
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Fresh from their feud on the  campaign trail, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama  beat Bill Clinton in a contest almost as closely watched as the  primaries being waged across the United States -- the music  industry's Grammy Awards.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071214/capt.f57ea1426d6c4429962423b3e4211b49.obama_profile_wxje108.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=OXcsj5AtkEOfR5azzq5HQg--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., reacts to cheers of a supporter while speaking to a packed gymnasium at South Aiken High School, in Aiken, S.C., during a town hall meeting in this Oct. 6, 2007, file photo. It was a Wednesday night ritual for Barack Obama: After a day of debating taxes, the death penalty or some other divisive issue, he'd head to a meeting of 'The Committee.'\
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took a big step on Thursday toward becoming the first black U.S. president as his campaign for change caught fire in Iowa and swept him past Hillary Clinton in the opening Democratic nominating contest.
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Edward M. Kennedy placed the aura of his familyâs name around the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.
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Sen.-elect Barack Obama is under no illusions that his superstar status in the Democratic Party will translate into political clout in a Republican-majority Congress.
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US television networks have projected that Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother, has won a seat in the US Senate seat from the state of Illinois.
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Winners of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards won&#39;t be announced until Feb. 13, 2005, when artists gather in Los Angeles for the music industry&#39;s biggest annual event.
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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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Oprah Winfrey rolled out the red carpet Saturday for Barack Obama at a gala fundraiser attended by high-wattage stars that was expected to raise $3 million for the Democratic presidential candidate.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Sen. Barack Obama won the Iowa Democratic caucus on Thursday, dealing a setback to national front-runner Hillary Clinton in the first nominating contest of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, NBC News reported.
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"You know it's been 43 years since the first and only time that a jazz artist got the album of the year award. I'd like to thank the academy for courageously breaking the mold this time. Â Herbie Hancock, on winning a Grammy Award for "River: The Joni Letters."