Grammy Awards Airs: Sunday
Grammy Awards Status: Break
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A Grammy Award (originally called gramophone award) - or Grammy - is an accolade by the national academy of recording arts and sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for stage performances, and the Academy Awards for motion pictures.
The Grammy Awards had their origin in the Hollywood walk of fame project in the 1950s. As the recording executives chosen for the walk of fame committee worked at compiling a list of important recording industry people who might qualify for a walk of fame star, they realized there were many more people who were leaders in their business who would never earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating an award given by their industry similar to the Oscars and The Emmys. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. After it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it; one working title was The Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. they finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the Gramophone, for the awards, which were first given for the year 1958.
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