Ike Turner wins first Grammy since 1972
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner,  whose musical achievements were largely overshadowed by the  notoriety he received after his former wife and recording  partner Tina Turner said he had abused her, won his first  Grammy Award since 1972 on Sunday.
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When Aretha Franklin is unhappy, she does not mince words. On Tuesday, the longtime Queen of Soul slammed Beyonce Knowles' intro to Tina Turner at Sunday's Grammy Awards, in which Knowles called Turner, not Franklin, "the queen."
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner, whose achievements as one of the founding fathers of the genre were overshadowed by ex-wife Tina Turner's claims that he regularly beat her for almost two decades, died on Wednesday at his home near San Diego. He was 76.
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Gretchen Wilson, the 31-year-old country music sensation, received the Breakthrough Favorite New Artist award at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, her second major award in less than a week.
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The Dixie Chicks came away with five awards at Sunday night's Grammys, followed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers with four and Mary J. Blige with three
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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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US soul legend Ike Turner, who died in December, was killed by a cocaine overdose, coroners say.
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Grammy stars partied into the wee hours of Valentine's Day, celebrating a love of music, some surprising wins and mostly each other. Although Sunday night's performance-packed awards ceremony ran nearly 30 minutes long, Stevie Wonder was at it again several hours later, playing a breathtaking impromptu performance at Spago in Beverly Hills that paid homage to Album of the Year winner Ray Charles.
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Music from Bob Marley and The Rolling Stones are among new works inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Gladys Knight wasn't sitting in front of a television set watching the Grammy Awards. And she didn't even know she shared a gospel performance Grammy award Sunday with the late Ray Charles for their duet, "Heaven Help Us All," until there was a break in church services.
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Kenny Chesney. Although he&#39;s been in the business for 12 years, Chesney had never won a Country Music Association award until Tuesday night.
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Jimmy Carter became the second former U.S. president to win a Grammy Award when he was honored in the spoken-word category on Sunday for the audio-book version of his bestseller "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis."
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It was a long time coming and veteran British rock star Rod Stewart was not sure how to react to winning his first Grammy award in 14 tries.
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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."
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Burt Bacharach, Doris Day and Earl Scruggs will receive 2008 Grammy Awards for lifetime achievement.
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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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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.