It's business time!
I was checking the LA Times to see if anything vaguely interesting was happening at the Grammys, looking at the winners, thinking "I don't care about any of these artists", but then I saw this...
BEST COMEDY ALBUM
"America's Mexican," George Lopez
"Dirty Girl," Lisa Lampanelli
"The Distant Future," Flight of the Conchords (Winner)
"I Still Have A Pony," Steven Wright
"Songs Pointed & Pointless," Harry Shearer
Sweet as!
ADDED: Stuff.co.nz has just posted up this news, noting that "The last New Zealander to win a Grammy was opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in 1984, according to the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand." WRONG! [The Herald got it wrong too - scratch that, they fixed it]
Expat Kiwi jazz musician Alan Broadbent has been nominated numerous times for the Grammys, and won in 1998 and 2000, for his arranging on albums by Natalie Cole and Shirley Horn, respectively.
1 comment:
"The last New Zealander to win a Grammy was Wellingtonian Fran Walsh, who won best song written for a motion picture, television or other visual media in 2005 as a co-writer on "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
yeah, but she aint a muso....
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