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February, 14th 2005
Posted 2/13/2005 11:23 PM Updated 2/14/2005 6:10 AM
By Ken Barnes
The Grammys couldn't stop loving Ray Charles Sunday night in Los Angeles. The late R&B/jazz titan's last album, Genius Loves Company, racked up six awards before the CBS telecast began and collected another two during the telecast: Record and Album of the Year. And the show hit an early peak with a tribute by Jamie Foxx (who portrayed Charles in the film Ray), Charles' longtime friend Quincy Jones and Alicia Keys. Their Georgia on My Mind brought down the house.
Magic moment: Jamie Foxx and Alicia Keys paid tribute to ray Charles with a show-stopping rendition of Georgia On My Mind.
By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY
The Grammys couldn't stop loving Ray Charles Sunday night in Los Angeles. The late R&B/jazz titan's last album, Genius Loves Company, racked up six awards before the CBS telecast began and later added the prestigious trophies for album and record of the year (the latter for his duet with Norah Jones, Here We Go Again).
And the show hit an early peak with a tribute by Jamie Foxx (who portrayed Charles in the film Ray), Charles' longtime friend Quincy Jones and Alicia Keys. Their Georgia on My Mind brought down the house. Bonnie Raitt and Billy Preston also saluted Charles.
Keys was the other dominant force, picking up four awards, sweeping the R&B categories for which she was nominated. Usher, her duet partner on My Boo, which won the group/duo R&B vocal award, collected two other awards: rap/sung collaboration (for Yeah) and contemporary R&B album (for Confessions). Norah Jones also won three times, twice for the Charles duet.
U2 won three awards for Vertigo. (The album on which it appears, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, won't be eligible until next year's awards.) John Mayer and Prince were among the night's two-time winners.
The most-nominated artist, Kanye West, picked up a pair of songwriting awards as well as the rap album trophy but lost in all of the "big four" categories (album, record, song — to Mayer — and new artist, to Maroon 5).
There were plenty of emotional moments during the telecast. West's own performance of his much-nominated Jesus Walks was both spectacular and impassioned.
U2 provided an emotional high point at the end of a subdued performance of Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own, which lead singer Bono dedicated to his late father, Bob Hewson. When Bono interpolated a snatch of Tom Rush's No Regrets, he choked up visibly.
Melissa Etheridge (now bald because of cancer treatments) and Joss Stone pulled out all the vocal stops on a Janis Joplin tribute.
A pair of multi-act extravaganzas exhibited more megastar wattage if less raw emotion. Bono, Stevie Wonder, Jones, Steven Tyler, Tim McGraw, Brian Wilson, Keys and more teamed for a We Are the World-like rendition of The Beatles' Across the Universe. The performance was made available for download on iTunes, with proceeds going to Red Cross tsunami relief efforts.
Gwen Stefani, Los Lonely Boys, Franz Ferdinand and Maroon 5 joined in an ambitious opener, linked by the Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.
The informal award for most-buzzed-about event had to go to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's joint performing debut on the Spanish-language duet Escapemonos (Let's Escape).
And the award for most heartwarming moment was won hands-down by Loretta Lynn and producer Jack White (of the White Stripes) accepting the country-album award. White called Lynn "an American treasure."
Another cross-generational highlight: Usher and James Brown trading moves on Sex Machine.
Former Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson won his first Grammy (for rock instrumental). Rod Stewart took home his first award in a four-decade recording career for the third volume in his Great American Songbook series, which won the award for traditional pop.
The victories put them one behind a somewhat-less-celebrated recording artist, former president Bi
source: USA TODAY
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