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The Grammy Awards is an awards show that began in 1958 and has been telecast since 1971 giving out awards for achievements in the music industry. The term, Grammy awards used to be called the gold gramophone trophies. This year, the 52nd Grammy Awards show took place in Los Angeles and was 3 1/2 hours long with several awards and live performances like Lady Gaga and Elton John playing dueling pianos with piano lamps singing a blend of Speechless and Your Song to the audience. Another amazing performance was by Pink who sang “Glitter in the Air” while performing an impressive aerial acrobatics stunt with silk scarves and dramatic House of Troy lighting.

Beyonce Knowles made Grammy Award history at the 52nd Grammy Awards by winning the largest number of awards for a female in one year. She won 6 awards for various things such as song of the year and best R&B female vocal. Her song Single Ladies was a worldwide hit that earned her a few of her awards as well as her album from which that song was on. Despite her fame and recognition at the awards show, Beyonce seemed genuinely surprised to receive so many accolades and especially thanked her husband, Jay Z, another famous musician. Her career began as a singer in the girl group called Destiny’s Child and really exploded once she went out on her won with a solo career.

The young 20 year old country singer, Taylor Swift was the other huge winner at the 52nd Grammy Awards winning the biggest prize of Album of the year for her Fearless album. She has had quite a year winning several awards and the Grammy’s proved to be no exception getting her 4 of the gold Gramophone trophies to take home. Besides winning her first Grammy awards, Swift performed a duet with one of her longtime idols, Stevie Nicks. The future certainly appears promising for the young lady from Nashville.

Another group from Nashville, Tennessee that shocked several at the Grammy Awards was the family band named Kings of Leon that took home three awards including the record of the year beating out rock big timers, U2 and the Dave Matthews band. Another country band won a huge award for being named the best new artist was awarded to the Zac Brown band. It seems as if the country singers and those hailing from Nashville really cleaned up at the 2010 Grammy Awards.

One highlight of the evening was during a special Michael Jackson tribute where they showed a video Jackson had made that was to be performed on his tour that he was preparing for at the time of his sudden death. It was done in 3D and singers, Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood all contributed to it on stage. Jackson’s children, Paris and Prince accepted a lifetime achievement award on behalf of their father which moved the entire crowd.