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I’ve collected/will be collecting little tidbits mentioning Beyonce’s record-breaking night from the 2010 Grammys and putting them in this post. Just a little something for the fans!
Beyoncé broke a record and Michael Jackson’s kids broke a few hearts at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
Beyoncé took home six Grammys, including Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” and pop vocal performance of the year for “Halo,” to set a Grammy record for most awards won by a female artist on one show.
On a night dominated by a range of divas, Beyoncé went the route of classic pop elegance and scored for three different songs: “Halo” and “Single Ladies,” which dominated radio charts last year, and “At Last,” which won the Grammy for best traditional R&B performance. – NYDailyNews
It was a night of pure GRAMMY gold for R&B songstress Beyoncé, who picked up six wins, a record for a female artrist, at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, including Song Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Contemporary R&B Album.
Beyoncé, the field-leader with 10 GRAMMY nominations, took total command of the stage to open her performance. After parading down the aisle with a SWAT team of dancers, she launched fiercely into “If I Were A Boy,” at one point dropping to one knee in front of a crowd of fist-pumping fans, before segueing into a version of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” If she is known largely as a pop/R&B diva, that’s due to change as Beyoncé proved she can not only belt, she can also rock. – Grammy Blog
Here’s a streaming version of Beyonce’s interview on 60 Minutes from last night. I have it to download, untagged, but since it’s just an interview I figure you guys can just stream! If you want it for download I’ll try and get it up by the weekend.
Tonight, you’ll find all the updates from tonight’s 2010 GRAMMYs here in this post!
—- 8:15 PM: BEYONCE WINS SONG OF THE YEAR (Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)) 8:34 PM: Beyonce just performed If I Were a Boy in an EPIC way! 9:19 PM: Beyonce lost Record of the Year to Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody. 9:57 PM: Beyonce has her 3D glasses on for Michael Jackson’s Tribute! 10:47 PM: BEYONCE WINS BEST POP FEMALE VOCAL PERFORMANCE! 11: 27 PM: Beyonce loses Album of the Year to Taylor Swift but had a strong night with 6 WINS!!
– Want to hear her thank her husband again?
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Watch some interviews from after the ceremony! It looks like Bey’s shooting a quick little photoshoot with her 6 Grammys!
Here’s a little gift from me to announce this site’s coming back. I had to take time out for my college apps/school stuff but I’m pretty much done with that so I’m back! Thanks to our friends Alex and Joao!
- Lady Gaga And Beyonce Knowles on set of the music video shoot for “Telephone”. Gaga and Beyonce filmed acting, performance and dancing scenes inside a a desert road side diner on the outskirts of LA then the duo filmed scenes inside a truck named the “Pussy Wagon”. The truck is the same one used by Uma Thurman in the film “Kill Bill” and now owned by Quinten Tarintino who loaned it to Lady GaGa for the video shoot. Actor/Model Tyreese was also seen on set during Diner scene. The next day Lady Gaga filmed a female prison shower scene for the video.
Beyoncé gave a powerful performance of “Halo” during Friday’s (January 22) “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon.
Performing from London, the songstress was accompanied by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who performed with his band earlier in the night, on the piano for an acoustic rendition. Beyoncé injected Haiti into her lyrics: “Haiti, we can see your halo/ You know you’re my saving grace,” she sang. “You’re everything I need and more, it’s written all over your face/ Haiti, we can see your halo/ I pray you won’t fade away.”
The emotional track is from her 2009 LP, I Am … Sasha Fierce. B is one of a long line of participants for the telethon, including her husband, Jay-Z, who performed later with Rihanna and U2.
Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now.
iTunes customers can exclusively pre-order the “Hope for Haiti Now” full-performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by “Hope for Haiti Now” charities, including the Red Cross and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti foundation. Performances will also be available for purchase in the days following the event through Amazon’s MP3 service and Rhapsody, through distribution provided by INgrooves.
Jay-Z’s wife Beyonce and Coldplay were also due to play during the London section.
The stars arrived at Covent Garden club The Hospital to rehearse and record their performances.
Beyonce said: “It’s brilliant, such a fantastic idea. I’m so excited to be here.
“It’s such a tragic situation and we should all do what we can to help.”
Coldplay’s Chris Martin, 32, said: “I visited Haiti with Oxfam a few years ago. It’s a country of extreme poverty and brutal living conditions. Most people in Port-au-Prince live in tin shacks.
Beyoncé has been added to the bill for the “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon, airing Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT, upping the star wattage for the already massive event.
The singer will join husband Jay-Z, Rihanna and U2’s Bono and The Edge in London to help raise funds for Haiti in the wake of last week’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Mary J. Blige and more artists will also perform during the two-hour telecast.
George Clooney, who helped organize the event with MTV Networks, will helm the proceedings in Los Angeles, while Wyclef Jean and CNN’s Anderson Cooper will join in from New York and Haiti, respectively.
A number of notable acts have confirmed their participation for the telethon, which will air commercial-free across MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, Centric, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, Epix, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health and Planet Green. Canada’s CTV, CBC Television, Global Television and MuchMusic also will air “Hope for Haiti,” as will BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International, making the event available in 640 million homes worldwide.
Facebook and Twitter are the official social-media partners for the telethon. All donations will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti foundation. The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and United Nations World Food Programme will also benefit from the telethon’s efforts, as aid will be split evenly among each organization’s relief programs for the ravaged island.
Expected highlights from the telecast include U2’s Bono and The Edge joining Jay-Z and Rihanna in London for a one-of-a-kind performance. Kid Rock, Keith Urban and Sheryl Crow are among those who will appear in Los Angeles, and Springsteen, Blige and Shakira are set to take part in the New York portion of the show.
All the performances and collaborations will be available for download on iTunes for 99 cents on Saturday.
In a new commercial set to premiere on Nickelodeon, Beyoncé will be seen playing Style Savvy, a video game that turns players into managers of a virtual boutique.
“Fashion is something I’ve been familiar with my whole life,” she says in an interview before the shoot. So when Nintendo tapped her to represent its product, she was happy to oblige.
Introduced last November for the portable Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems, the game allows aspiring entrepreneurs to choose from 16 fictional designer labels, each with a different style and price point, and more than 10,000 items. The goal is to accommodate customers’ budgets and needs, then use the accumulated cash to restock your stores, bearing in mind such factors as seasonal changes.
“It can teach young girls a sense of business and of responsibility,” Beyoncé says. “You have to be a good listener and pay attention to what the customers want. It also teaches you about fashion, using terms that fashion people use, like ‘asymmetrical.’ ”
As part of its arrangement with Beyoncé, Nintendo plans to introduce five items from her Deréonline early this year. (Five items from Charlotte Ronson’s fall 2009 collection are currently available for download.)
“It will be fun,” she says. “The clothes in the game are great, so cute and detailed, and there’s always something new. It’s like playing dress-up, only with digital technology instead of dolls.”
Up to four players can hook up wirelessly for a runway contest. Beyoncé took part in one such competition with a few friends, “and they told me I still have a long way to go. So I guess I have to keep working at it.”
Beyonce’s New Year’s resolution is at once ambitious and surprising. The multitasking superstar, who was seemingly everywhere in 2009, hopes to spend a good chunk of 2010 not working.
“It’s definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries,” says Beyoncé, 28. “I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.”
Not that Beyoncé won’t be visible in the coming months. Just a few days before Christmas, she’s in Long Island City, shooting a pair of commercials for the Nintendo video game Style Savvy, which is introducing items from Deréon, a casual lifestyle extension of the House of Deréon line that Beyoncé created with longtime fashion adviser Tina Knowles— also her mom. The spots will air on Nickelodeon in March, in the week before the Kids’ Choice Awards and during the show.
Before that, of course, Beyoncé will perform on the Grammy Awards broadcast Jan. 31 on CBS, where she’s up for 10 trophies, more than any other artist, including album, record and song of the year. The last is for her slamming manifesto Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), one of 2009’s most ubiquitous singles (3.5 million downloads sold) and its most-streamed video. The album, I Am … Sasha Fierce, has sold 2.7 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“I still haven’t really digested it yet,” Beyoncé says. The Grammy nominations were announced Dec. 2, two days before her spouse and fellow pop icon Jay-Z turned 40. “I was focused so much on my husband’s birthday — I threw a big party — that I didn’t really think about it. But it’s really an honor.” Continue reading Beyonce Poised to Take a Break in 2010…
P.S. Happy New Year, B fans! I’ve been rather busy and pre-occupied but I’m going to try and be better! I can’t remember if I’ve said this but – I won’t be too wrapped up in updating until after February.
Superstar and cultural icon Beyoncé is extending her 2009 “I AM…” World Tour to South America for a series of live concerts beginning Thursday, February 4, 2010 at Parque Planeta in Florianópolis, Brazil. The two-week run will end in the Caribbean on the island of Trinidad on Thursday, February 18, 2010 (see itinerary following).
The tour dates mark the first time the international entertainer will perform live concerts in South America. Fans in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru will finally get the chance to see the show that critics around the world have called “spectacular” and “dazzling.”
Recently the “I AM…” World Tour was named the world’s #1 concert attraction by Billboard Magazine’s Hot Tour rankings.
On sale dates for four Brazilian shows have been determined. São Paulo will go on sale on December 19 followed Florianópolis on December 21, Salvador on December 22 and Rio de Janeiro on January 5. Further on-sale details for Trinidad and the other cities will be available on her official site, beyonceonline.com.
The “I AM…” World Tour in South America and The Caribbean
Thu 2/4 Florianópolis, Brazil Parque Planeta
Sat 2/6 São Paulo, Brazil Pacaembú Stadium
Sun 2/7 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Maracanã Stadium
Wed 2/10 Salvador, Brazil Parque de Exposições
Fri 2/12 Buenos Aires, Argentina Hipodromo de San Isidro
Sun 2/14 Santiago, Chile Arena Movistar
Tue 2/16 Lima, Peru Explanada del Estadio Monumental
Thu 2/18 Port of Spain, Trinidad Queen’s Park Oval
