• Australian singer Lana Cantrell, a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City?

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Grammy Awards

• Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay?
• Coolio's 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise" was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance?
• Gorillaz received four nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards for their song "Feel Good Inc.", winning the award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals?
• Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You?
• Radiohead (pictured) have received ten nominations at the Grammy Awards, which won them the Best Alternative Music Performance award twice, for OK Computer in 1998 and Kid A in 2001?
• rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
• Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for the song "So Much to Say" and another in 2004 for the song "Gravedigger"?
• in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series, NBA finals, NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
• the band Green Day (lead vocalist pictured) has been nominated for 10 American Music Awards, 13 Grammy Awards, and 25 MTV Music Video Awards?

Grammy Award

• 2007 Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video?
• Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted?
• Grammy-nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards?
• Green Day's Grammy Award winning concept album American Idiot has been adapted for the stage by the band members and two Tony Award winners?
• Shenandoah and Alison Krauss' "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" won a Grammy Award in 1995, and its b-side "Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)" was also nominated for one?
• The Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting, received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously?
• British singer Adele was nominated for four 2009 Grammy Awards for "Chasing Pavements", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance categories?
• American folk blues guitarist and Grammy-winning music historian Elijah Wald is the son of prominent biologists Ruth Hubbard and Nobel laureate George Wald?
• American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy?
• Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with "Before I Forget" in 2006?