{"id":267,"date":"2007-02-11T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-11T01:35:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:35:21","slug":"spotlight-on-grammys-performers-and-pres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spotlight-on-grammys-performers-and-pres\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On: GRAMMYS Performers and Presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a moment to shine a spotlight on key performers and presenters at this year&#8217;s GRAMMY Awards. New performers have been added almost daily. The latest additions were announced today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Recording Academy announced today that current multi-nominees singer\/songwriter James Blunt and rapper T.I. will perform on the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards, and six-time GRAMMY winners Earth, Wind &amp; Fire will join previously announced performers Mary J. Blige and Ludacris in a special GRAMMY segment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get enough of <strong>James Blunt&#8217;s &#8220;You&#8217;re Beautiful&#8221;<\/strong>, and I can only hope that rumors of a throwdown with <strong>Christina Aguilera<\/strong> and her similarly named song from a year or two ago are correct.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else agree with me that <strong>Earth, Wind &amp; Fire<\/strong> were the Black Chicago (the band, that is)? Or am I thinking of <strong>The Commodores<\/strong>?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVLqkeM71ww?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Damn<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; did you watch this video? I must be thinking about The Commodores!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just performers who are being added right up until the big event, but presenters too! If you had been checking the presenter list a few days ago and were disappointed that one of your favorite barely relevant artists was not listed as a presenter, maybe one of the following last-minute additions will satisfy you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Presenters added to the all-star lineup include multi-GRAMMY winners Burt Bacharach, Natalie Cole, and Reba McEntire, rapper\/actor Common as well as actors Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders (&#8220;How I Met Your Mother&#8221;), actress\/singer Mandy Moore, Academy Award winner Quentin Tarantino, and actor Luke Wilson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, the addition of <strong>Cobie Smulders<\/strong> made my day. And I can&#8217;t wait to see how wasted and keeeerAAAAAZY Tarantino will be. Bet he&#8217;ll come out dressed in an <strong>8-ball jacket<\/strong>! Ironic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a moment to shine a spotlight on key performers and presenters at this year&#8217;s GRAMMY Awards. New performers have been added almost daily. The latest additions were announced today: The Recording Academy announced today that current multi-nominees singer\/songwriter James Blunt and rapper T.I. will perform on the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards, and six-time <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spotlight-on-grammys-performers-and-pres\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}