46th Annual Grammy Awards
The 46th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 8, 2004, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California honoring the best in music for the recording of the year beginning from October 1, 2002, through September 30, 2003. It recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. The big winners were Beyoncé, who won five awards, and Outkast, who won three awards including Album of the Year. Tied for the most nominations, with six each, were Beyoncé, Outkast, and Jay-Z.[1]
46th Annual Grammy Awards
40 Years Ago: Sting, Dave Matthews, Pharrell and Vince Gill – "I Saw Her Standing There"
The Beatles
Tribute. "Keep Me In Your Heart" Performers: Emmylou Harris, Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Jackson Browne, Jorge Calderon, Timothy B. Schmit
Warren Zevon
Funk Music Tribute: , Earth, Wind & Fire, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, George Clinton with Parliament-Funkadelic and "Minister" Samuel L. Jackson
OutKast
- Introducing Sting & Sean Paul
Madonna
- Talks about the 40th anniversary of The Beatles landing in America and introduces Dave Matthews, Vince Gill, Sting, and Pharrell Williams.
Ellen DeGeneres
Queen Latifah - Introduces the
Black Eyed Peas
Effects of the Super Bowl XXXVIII controversy[edit]
Janet Jackson was originally scheduled to perform a tribute to Luther Vandross during the ceremony. However, due to an incident involving Jackson during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show the previous week, where her breast was briefly revealed by Justin Timberlake, Jackson was blacklisted by CBS's parent company Viacom and her invitation to the ceremony was rescinded. Despite his involvement in the "wardrobe malfunction", Timberlake was still invited, and used one of his acceptance speeches to apologize for the incident. CBS also broadcast the ceremony on a five-minute tape delay.[2][3]
In memoriam[edit]
Bobby Hatfield
Michael Kamen
Little Eva
Hank Ballard
Edwin Starr
Nina Simone
Barry White
Tony Thompson (drummer)
Herbie Mann
Benny Carter
Luther Henderson
Billy May
John Guerin
Buddy Arnold
Bebu Silvetti
Babatunde Olatunji
Bob Keane
Johnny Cash
June Carter Cash
Don Gibson
Johnny Paycheck
Sam Phillips
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
Max D. Barnes
Sheb Wooley
Eugene Istomin
Rosalyn Tureck
Luciano Berio
Lou Harrison
Celia Cruz
Rubén González (pianist)
Compay Segundo
Mickie Most
Elliott Smith
Noel Redding
Robert Palmer (singer)
Warren Zevon
"" (Soul City, 1969) performed by The 5th Dimension
Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
Ellington at Newport (Columbia, 1957) performed by & His Orchestra
Duke Ellington
(Capitol, 1964) performed by the original Broadway cast with Barbra Streisand & Sydney Chaplin
Funny Girl
Golden Jubilee Concert: Concerto no. 3 (RCA Red Seal, 1978) performed by Vladimir Horowitz with Eugene Ormandy conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Rachmaninoff
(RSO, 1977) performed by the motion picture cast
Saturday Night Fever
(Buena Vista, 1956) performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Walt Disney's Fantasia
(Columbia, 1961) performed by the motion picture cast
West Side Story
's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below became the first and only rap album to date to win Album of the Year. It was also the second hip-hop album to win Album of the Year, following Lauryn Hill's R&B album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998).
OutKast
became the fourth female artist to win a record five awards in one night. Prior to Beyoncé, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill had won five in one night. Since 2004 Amy Winehouse and Alison Krauss became the fifth and sixth artists respectively to tie this record. Beyoncé is the only one of these six artists who never win a general field award out of her five wins. In 2010, Beyoncé broke this record, earning six awards. This record was later tied by a British singer Adele in 2012.
Beyoncé
apologized for the Super Bowl halftime show the past week in his acceptance speech that night. However, Janet Jackson does not appear at the event.
Justin Timberlake
As were presented with the award for Best New Artist, rapper 50 Cent went up to the stage. 50 Cent was nominated for Best New Artist, losing to Evanescence.
Evanescence
won four awards however he was unable to attend due to a stroke he suffered several months earlier. Celine Dion sang his song "Dance With My Father" with Richard Marx playing piano in tribute to Luther Vandross. The song was finally awarded the award for Song of the Year later that night. During the show they showed a videotaped clip that was pre-taped of him saying "Whenever I say goodbye it's never for long because I believe in the power of love". Vandross died the following year in 2005.
Luther Vandross
who died in September 2003 was awarded two posthumous awards; Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Wind and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for his duet with Bruce Springsteen, Disorder in the House.
Warren Zevon
The show also featured a tribute to in honor of the 40th anniversary of their arrival in America and their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. During the show, both widows of deceased members – Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison – made an on-stage appearance.