When the Grammy Awards were celebrated for the first time in 1959, the event was held in two cities.
The music world’s most prestigious Grammy Awards has started in Los Angeles. Tibet’s spiritual leader Dalai Lama has received his first Grammy Award. At the same time, Indian sitar player Anushka Shankar could not win any award despite two nominations. This year too, many Indian artists also reached the red carpet of Grammy. The 68th ceremony of the Grammy Awards is being celebrated, which started on May 4, 1959.
When the Grammy Awards were organized for the first time, the event was held in two cities. The first in Braverly Hills, California and the second in New York City. The reason for organizing the same ceremony at two different places was also special.
Why award show at two different places on the same day?
When this award show was organized for the first time, an effort was made to involve as many artists as possible. If you look at the locations of California and New York on the map, you will find that both are in opposite directions. American history says that at that time the music industry was very strong on both coasts of America. The rising status of music was giving popularity to America.
This year Bad Bunny received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
When the first Grammy was held, the organizers planned to include as many artists and officials as possible in the ceremony. Therefore, they organized the awards ceremony simultaneously in two places so that artists from the West Coast (Los Angeles/Beverly Hills) and the East Coast (New York) could attend the event together and participate in the program without long travel.
Dalai Lama.
What is the distance between California and New York?
California and New York are in opposite directions. There is a distance of 4700 kilometers between the two. It was not easy to call artists together in that period. The event was the first, so efforts were made to make it more grand. Smaller ceremonies were held instead of a large televised event, and television broadcasts of the Grammys began later.
between California and New York The distance is 4700 kilometers.
The Grammy Award was named after the gramophone. In the initial phase it was sound recording and playback equipment. This was the reason why the design of the award was made like a gramophone. It was chosen to honor the origins of recorded music technology.
Not all awards are telecast
Only a small portion of the Grammy Award categories are shown during the television broadcast. Most awards, often spanning more than 70 categories, are presented in advance at a separate premiere ceremony in the presence of industry professionals and nominees.
The Grammy categories are not fixed — they are regularly added, mixed, or removed to reflect changes in the music industry. Over the decades, the categories have changed several times, including major changes in stylistic groupings.
It is not necessary to be famous to get a Grammy Award nomination. Artists do not even need to be associated with any big label. Independent musicians can submit nominations through the Recording Academy’s entry process. In the last several years, many nominated artists have come from outside the mainstream or from independent backgrounds.
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