It's Ladies' Night at the Grammys as Pink, Lady Gaga and Beyonce give sensational performances

February 1st, 2010

It was Ladies' Night at the Grammy Awards as Pink, Lady Gaga and Beyonce gave sensational performances during the ceremony.

The three stars had 17 nominations between them as they wowed the audience at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Pink got her appearance off to a racy start as she descended from the ceiling wearing a skin-coloured catsuit to perform her song Glitter in the Air.

Performance: Pink is suspended by a white sling as she sings her track Glitter in the Air at the Grammy Awards

The singer was suspended in a white sling underneath her dancers wearing gold bikinis and gold body paint.

Just before she took to the stage the PA at the ceremony at the Staples Center warned people in the audience to beware of stunts in her performance and Pink did not disappoint and she sang and span at the same time.

At one stage Pink turned into a giant sprinkler system as she showered people in the front row seats with water.

Glittery: The singer, who has two nominations at the awards, even turned into a human water sprinkler and showered the front rows during her performance

Skin-coloured: Pink wore a skin tone catsuit on stage with handily placed silver sequins

Lady Gaga had earlier got the show off to a sizzling start with an eye-popping performance with Elton John.

The singer, who was nominated for five awards and won two during the pre-televised ceremony, kicked off the night in a sequined green leotard with massive shoulder pads as she sang her hit Poker Face during an elaborate show including pyrotechnics and dramatic choreography.

But then she brought out Elton John as they melded her song Speechless and his classic Your Song together in a performance that featured duelling pianos covered in clawed hands and glitter-painted faces.

Show stopper: Lady Gaga in a green sequined outfit performs her hit Poker Face to kick off the awards

Duel: The singer performs with multi Grammy award-winning Elton John on a pair of pianos covered in clawed hands

Now you see me: The Poker Face singer also wore this beige face mask and matching one-piece number

As usual, Lady Gaga didn't disappoint fans of her eclectic outfits as she enjoyed several costume changes throughout her performance.

Her debut album The Fame picked up best dance/electronic album and smash hit single Poker Face took best dance recording.

Leading the way with 10 nominations, R&B singer Beyonce gave a typically energetic performance as she hit the stage with her hit If I Were A Boy.

Beyonce, who won five awards in 2004 for her debut album Dangerously In Love, had already reached that target earlier in the evening.

She scooped the songwriting award and best female vocal performance for Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), best R&B contemporary album for I Am.... Sasha Fierce, and won traditional R&B performance for At Last and the song of the year award.

We salute you: Beyonce, who is nominated for 10 awards, performs a medley of her songs watched by SWAT team dancers

Top of the bill: The R&B singer scooped two awards for her hit single Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) as well as the song of the year award

The awards also saw a special effects-laden 3D tribute to the late Michael Jackson and a lifetime achievement award for the King of Pop.

His children, Prince Michael, 12, and Paris, 11, appeared on stage after the tribute to accept a lifetime achievement award for the pop star, who died in June of a prescription drug overdose.

Carrie Underwood, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson and Usher performed in the tribute, mixing their voices with Michael Jackson's against a backdrop of his 1995 track Earth Song.

Honoured: Michael Jackson's children Prince, left, and Paris accept their father's lifetime achievement award

Grief: Lionel Richie hugs Michael Jackson's daughter Paris as he presents her with her father's lifetime achievement award

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Beyoncé dominates Grammy gala

Pop diva Beyoncé reigned over the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, setting a record for the most wins by a female artist.

The hit singer accepted six Grammys — with the potential to win a seventh — for her album I am... Sasha Fierce and hit songs like Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).

"This has been such an amazing night for me and I'd love to thank the Grammys," she said as she took the stage to accept the trophy for best female pop vocal performance for her ballad Halo.

Her voice wavering with emotion, she also thanked her fans and her family, extending the shout-out to husband — and another of Sunday night's multiple Grammy-winners — Jay-Z.


She had previously earned the televised show's first award of the night — song of the year for Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) — and turned in a spirited performance of her track If I Were a Boy and Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know.

Coming into Sunday with a leading 10 nominations, she was a dominant force even at the non-televised Los Angeles gala Sunday afternoon, where she won contemporary R&B album for I am...Sasha Fierce, best R&B song and best female R&B vocal performance for Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) and traditional R&B performance for At Last, from the film Cadillac Records.



Beyoncé led what was largely a ladies night at the Grammys, with chart-toppers Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga also scoring multiple honours.

Country ingenue Swift was honoured with the best country album Grammy for her bestselling release, Fearless.


"This is my first time walking up those stairs to accept a Grammy on national television!" she exclaimed. "I just feel like I'm standing here accepting an impossible dream."

She showed as much enthusiasm as when she accepted a pair of trophies (female country vocal performance and country song for White Horse) at the pre-show ceremony and declared, "This is my first Grammy, you guys!"


Outrageous dance-pop artist Lady Gaga kicked off Sunday night's broadcast with a fiery, eye-popping performance that segued into a duet with British icon Elton John. She too started the gala with a pair of Grammys already under her belt: dance recording for Poker Face and electronic/dance album for The Fame.

Southern rockers Kings of Leon landed a trio of Grammys, with the track Use Somebody winning the band the coveted record of the year title, best rock duo or group and best rock song.


The Black Eyed Peas, another top contender, started the broadcast having already won three Grammys: for their album The E.N.D. (pop vocal album) and their hit songs I Gotta Feeling (pop performance by a duo or group with vocals) and Boom Boom Pow (short-form music video).

Other key winners included:

•Country's Zac Brown Band, winner of best new artist after the success of its debut album The Foundation.
•Jay-Z, whose track Run This Town (featuring Rihanna and Kanye West) was named best rap/sung collaboration and best rap song. His song D.O.A. (Death of Autotune) also picked up the Grammy for best rap solo performance.
•Hit TV satirist Stephen Colbert, whose A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! was named best comedy album.
•Green Day, who picked up best rock album for 21st Century Breakdown.
•Rapper Eminem, whose album Relapse won best rap album and whose track Crack a Bottle (featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent) scored rap duo or group performance.
•Double-winner R&B singer Maxwell (R&B album for BLACKsummers'night and best male R&B vocal performance for Pretty Wings).
•Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, whose tune Make It Mine nabbed male pop vocal performance and whose duet Lucky (with Colbie Caillat) won pop collaboration with vocals.
Along with Gaga, Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas and country group Lady Antebellum, performers also included Green Day, who took the stage with cast members of their musical American Idiot, and singer Pink, who participated in an impressive aerial acrobatics routine while singing her ballad I Don't Believe You.


The show also featured periodic mentions of special Grammy award winners — including lifetime achievement award winners Leonard Cohen and Loretta Lynn — and some out-of-the-ordinary performances.

Céline Dion, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson performed along with a recording of Michael Jackson's Earth Song, in front of 3-D footage created for the late Jackson's This is It concerts. Two of Jackson's children, Prince Michael and Paris, then accepted their father's lifetime achievement award.



Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli teamed up to sing the classic Simon and Garfunkel song Bridge Over Troubled Waters, with their collaboration to be offered for sale as a charity single supporting Haitian earthquake relief at the iTunes online music store.

99 categories on pre-telecast
Earlier in the afternoon, a fast-paced pre-telecast gala — hosted by Grammy-winning singers Kurt Elling and Tia Carrere — awarded trophies in 99 categories.




Several Canadians were among those early winners.

Neil Young snagged the award for best boxed or special limited edition package for his elaborately designed box set The Archives, Vol. 1 1963-1972.

The Canadian music legend had also been honoured during the weekend's festivities as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' MusiCares person of the year.




Actor Michael J. Fox won the best spoken word album Grammy for Always Looking Up, based on his book Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist — which explores his personal philosophy amid an ongoing struggle with Parkinson's disease and stories of other optimists who have triumphed over adversity.

Crooner Michael Bublé was honoured with the award for traditional pop vocal album, for his album Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden.

Canadian acts who failed to win included
rap newcomer Drake, Montreal duo Beast, rock group Nickelback, hit producer David Foster, R&B singer Melanie Fiona and aboriginal singers Northern Cree.




Other pre-telecast highlights included:

•Engineered album, non-classical: Ellipse, by Imogen Heap, who arrived out of breath onstage from having just arrived moments before. The quirky artist turned up clutching a transparent parasol and bearing a sort-of electronic scarf featuring a scrolling Twitter feed.
•Jazz vocal album: Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling sings the music of Coltrane and Hartman, by gala co-host Kurt Elling. The singer noted that it was his first win after nine nominations.
•Remixed Recording: When Love Takes Over, by David Guetta with Kelly Rowland. French D.J. Guetta noted that he received "five nominations, so it means that finally DJ culture and dance music is growing in America... I'm not a real musician, trained. I cannot write music, but I started remixing music and that's how I started making music."
•Traditional folk album: High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, by Loudon Wainwright III, who ended his acceptance speech by thanking his late ex-wife Kate McGarrigle, "who taught me how to frail the banjo 40 years ago." Canadian folk icon McGarrigle, mother of singers Martha and Rufus Wainwright, will be honoured at a memorial in Montreal on Monday.
•Metal Performance: Dissident Aggressor, by Judas Priest. Singer Rob Halford noted that the win came after the five Grammy nominations. "Judas Priest has been making metal for over 35 years... Around the planet, we love what we do."
Taylor Swift reacts to winning the the best female country vocal performance award during the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards' pre-telecast show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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The Umbrella singer helped find Jasmina Anema - who was diagnosed with NK cell leukaemia, a particularly aggressive and rare form of the cancer, 13 months ago - a compatible donor for her bone marrow transplant last year and is "heartbroken" after she lost her fight for life on Wednesday.
Rihanna said: "I am incredibly heartbroken that Jasmina has passed away. She was such a brave and special child. She showed more strength and spirit than many adults I have met. I feel blessed that I was able to have her in my life, and know that through her example she has saved many lives. She was truly an angel on earth."

Rihanna: I Want To Be In Love By 31

The 21-year-old singer talked about her plan for love during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which airs on Monday.

“I read that you said you’re going to fall in love by 31 years old. That is your goal that you have to be in love by 31. Is that real? Did you say that,” Ellen asked.
“No, but I hope I am. 31 is a decade away,” Rihanna explained. “I better be in love by then.”

“Are you dating anyone now?” Ellen asked

“No, I’m single,” the singer said.

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Rihanna thinks her latest album 'Rated R' is a "classic".
he 'Russian Roulette' singer insists the LP - the follow-up to 2007's 'Good Girl Gone Bad' - is edgier and is more personal than her other releases.

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Looking to be having a marvelous time, the “Umbrella” songstress happily posed for pictures while receiving a kiss from young sensation, Justin Bieber - who has admitted to having a crush on the 21-year-old star.

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"[It's] completely different from any other video I've shot before," said Rihanna. "A lot of my videos are really dark and edgy and tough. 'Rude Boy' is more playing along the lines from my roots."

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US singer Rihanna further cemented her status as one of the most exciting followers of fashion on Sunday, while also celebrating her musical success.

Arriving at France's biggest music awards in Cannes, the 21-year-old got cameras clicking in a show-stopping two-tiered gown by Jean Paul Gaultier.

Rihanna can't sleep after Haiti tragedy

Rihanna has been having sleepless nights thinking about the Haitian orphans.

The pop star - who is from the Caribbean island of Barbados - has been left extremely distressed by the earthquakes which have hit Haiti leaving tens of thousands of people dead or injured.
Appearing on Oprah Winfrey's TV talk show, Rihanna said: "Often in a tragedy like this, it's the children who suffer the most. They have no way to get food, they're helpless. The children are the future."

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“He is violent and I am afraid. He is threatening to take all the items I purchased and try to destroy my property,” The Mirror quoted her as saying. “He brings his friends driving up and down the street to try and intimidate me. I am very fearful. He has other people calling me and stalking me,” she added. agencies

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After becoming upset with, “great sadness,” for the people of Haiti, Rihanna sat down with Fredrik Skavlan on an Oslo talk show to express her grief, especially seeing as though her native hometown of Barbados is not far off.

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As part of the promotion for the latest Rihanna album, Nokia partnered last year with Mercury Records to launch a Rihanna app that was bundled with music, images, a biography and tour information. The Rihanna app also linked through to Nokia Music Store so users could download exclusive content.

Nokia and Rihanna Release Exclusive Content

Nokia launched the exclusive Rihanna App. Bringing fans closer to Rihanna, the new App delivers news, music, photos and exclusive video content direct to Nokia's entertainment-rich handsets including the Nokia N97, Nokia X6 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
Video content available through the App includes live performance videos from Rihanna's album launch event. Additionally, fans can access music samples, a Rihanna biography and photo library, and, when available, information on Rihanna's forthcoming 2010 tour. The App content is unavailable elsewhere and is regularly updated for fans.

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The LCD HDTV company's game-day presence will also include the exclusive HD Sponsorship of the CBS Super Bowl Pre-Game Show entitled "The Super Bowl Today Presented by Vizio."

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Beyonce has decided to Sasha Fierce opening into the ground. Beyonce's alter ego and recognized the face of the 2008 multi-Platinum selling album "I Am ... Sasha Fierce". :
"The thing that's interesting is I don't need Sasha Fierce anymore, because I've grown and I'm now able to merge the two. Sasha Fierce is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when I'm working and when I'm on the stage. The double album allows me to take more risks and really step out of myself, or shall I say, step more into myself, and reveal a side of me that people [who] only know me see."

Beyonce and Jay-Z Hold Hands

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Beyonce Knowles has recently revealed that she is planning to take a break from her music career, however don’t get too worried as she will only be resting for 6-months.In February Beyonce will complete her ‘I Am…’ World tour, this will have lasted 11 months in total which has taken its toll on her.

It is thought that during her break Beyonce wants to do “random things”, heres what she had to say on the matter “I’m going to do random things. I want to go to restaurants, maybe take a class and see some movies and Broadway shows.”

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This is not the first time the couple has won the top position. Last year too, during June 2007 and June 2008, they had made $162 million together. Whew…some huge cash we say!To see their respective earning this year, Beyonce has made $87 million and the rest $35 million is for Jay-Z. Beyonce with her $87 million sits as the #6 highest paid celebrity.

Burger King, Carl's Jr. pull out oldest ad trick in book: Sex

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	Call it the battle of the virtual burger babes. In one corner, there's Kim Kardashian, the sexy cable star, eager to chat via webcam with Carl's Jr. customers on "The Ultimate Salad Lunch Date" at www.facebook.com/carlsjr. In the other corner, there's Burger King's "Shower Babe," an anonymous 20-year-old from South London. Folks can watch and hear her online while she showers in a bikini and sings. Viewers are asked to vote for what song she'll sing — and what bikini she'll wear — the next day.