NEW YORK (J Records) - *Alicia Keys Walks Away with Four Awards Including Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album, Best R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Performance Duo or Group with Vocal
- *Rod Stewart Takes His First Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- *Maroon 5 Wins the Coveted Best New Artist Award
- *Velvet Revolver Wins Best Hard Rock Performance for "Slither"
The RCA Music Group received 9 Grammy Awards at last night's 47th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles with a powerful showing by Alicia Keys who walked away with four awards for her work on Diary of Alicia Keys.
J Records' powerhouse Alicia Key's scored Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song, "You Don't Know My Name"; Best R&B Album, Diary of Alicia Keys; Best R&B Vocal Performance, "If I Ain't Got You"; and Best R&B Performance Duo or Group with Vocal for her duet with Usher on "My Boo." The awards follow up the five awards she won for her incredible debut album, Songs in A Minor, in 2001.
Legendary rock & roll icon Rod Stewart wins his first Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Stardust...The Great American Songbook: Volume III (J Records). Stewart has received 14 nominations during his illustrious career, and this was his third consecutive nomination in this category for the Songbook series which includes As Time Goes By...The Great American Songbook, Volume II, and the original It Had To Be You...The Great American Songbook. Stardust... is Rod Stewart's first ever No 1 debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart and his first No 1 album since Blondes Have More Fun back in 1979.
Maroon 5 continues their massive success story with their Grammy debut as Best New Artist. The band performed their ubiquitous single "This Love," which was one of the most played singles of 2004. Their debut album on Octone/J Records, Songs About Jane has won over critics and fans across the country. The band was named Best New Artist at last year's MTV Video Music Awards, Teen People named Maroon 5 Artist of the Year, and the band was recently named the 2nd Best Band after U2 by Rolling Stone's Reader's Poll.
RCA Records super-group Velvet Revolver nominated for three awards win Best Hard Rock Performance for their smash single "Slither" from their debut album, Contraband. Velvet Revolver is comprised of former Guns N' Roses bandmates Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum along with Stone Temple Pilots dazzling front man Scott Weiland.
The RCA Victor Group wins two of its four nominations. Keeping the Blues alive the incomparable Etta James wins Best Traditional Blues Album for Blues To The Bone. The Best Jazz Instrumental Solo award went to Bluebird recording artist Harvey Mason for "Speak Like a Child," with Herbie Hancock, from the album With All My Heart.
A special congratulations to J Recording artist Annie Lennox who scored a trifecta with "Into The West" written for the blockbuster film Lord Of the Rings-The Return of the King. Lennox won a Grammy Award last night for "Into The West" in the Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media category. The Grammy joins her win for the same song in similar categories at last year's Academy Awards and last month's Golden Globes.
