Hamilton was unique with nominations in three different R&B areas - as his critically hailed new album, Comin' From Where I'm From, was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album, while its current title tune hit "Comin' From Where I'm From" was nominated for Best Traditional R&B
Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song (a songwriters award).
Even after much fine-tuning, synthesizing
vocals to be indistinguishable to listeners from real singing was still virtually impossible.
Once a songwriter who set out to slyly afflict the comfortable, Merchant in her new incarnation seems more drawn to comforting the afflicted, and her soothing
vocals can achieve hymnlike beauty, as on the new song ``I May Know the Word.
Veteran Vince Gill captured the Best Country Song and Best Male Country
Vocal awards for "Go Rest High on That Mountain," which he wrote for his brother, Bob, who died of a heart attack three years ago.
Best Female Pop
Vocal Performance: ``It's Like That,'' Mariah Carey; ``Since U Been Gone,'' Kelly Clarkson; ``Good Is Good,'' Sheryl Crow; ``I Will Not Be Broken,'' Bonnie Raitt; ``Hollaback Girl,'' Gwen Stefani.
People say some of the songs have opera
vocals, go figure.
HYPNOTIZED (
vocals Tiff Lacey) A restrained, slower burner, underscored with strings and mesmerising
vocal.
Field and Burk brought the current Basie orchestra -- under the direction of Bill Hughes -- into the studio to recreate the instrumental backdrop for Charles' towering
vocals.
Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocals.
Fifteen-time GRAMMY winner U2 currently has five nods: Album Of The Year and Best Rock Album ("How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb"); Song Of The Year and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With
Vocals ("Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"); and Best Rock Song ("City Of Blinding Lights").
LOS ANGELES -- "Next Santana" Says Former "American Idol" Finalist Recorded
Vocals on His "Worlds of Change" Disc before Appearing on Fox Hit
Five-time GRAMMY winner Alicia Keys currently holds eight nominations: Album Of The Year and Best R&B Album (The Diary Of Alicia Keys); Song Of The Year and Best Female R&B
Vocal Performance ("If I Ain't Got You"); two nominations in the Best R&B Song category ("My Boo," and "You Don't Know My Name"); and two nominations in the Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With
Vocals category ("Diary" featuring Tony
The "Genius" received nominations for Best Album of the Year, Best Pop
Vocal Album, Record of the Year ("Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones), Best Gospel Performance ("Heaven Help Us All" with Gladys Knight), Best Traditional R&B
Vocal Performance ("Sinner's Prayer" with BB King), TWO for the Best
Vocal Collaboration category ("Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones and "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" with Elton John), Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying
Vocals (Victor Vanacore for "Over the Rainbow" with Johnny Mathis), Best Engineered Album (non-classical) and Best Surround Sound Album.
HISTORICAL ALBUM: ``The Complete Hank Williams''; ``Have a Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box''; ``The Jazz Singers: A Smithsonian Collection of Jazz
Vocals From 1919 To 1994''; ``New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts 1923 to 1987''; ``The Pet Sounds Sessions.
She is nominated for six GRAMMYs, including Record Of The Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Crazy In Love" featuring Jay-Z), Best R&B Female
Vocal Performance ("Dangerously In Love 2"), Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With
Vocals ("The Closer I Get To You" with Luther Vandross), Best R&B Song ("Crazy In Love"), and Best Contemporary R&B Album (Dangerously In Love).
