Rural category.

This is undoubtedly a big category, including eight awards including Best Country Female Singer, Best Country Male Singer, Best Country Band/Combination, Best Country Chorus, Best Country Instrumental Performance, Best Country Song, Best Country Album, and Best Orchid Album.

When it comes to country music, we have to mention Jin Jingcheng's first English single "if-i-die-young" released in 2003. This song is a country song. It once won the championship on the American Country Songs chart and was evaluated as full of youthful fantasy and profound connotation. It is full of country spirit and natural and fresh. Later, this song was nominated for the 2005 Grammy Best Country Song, but unfortunately it failed to win the award.

The so-called country music is a definition of Americans. In Jin Jingcheng's view, it actually refers to natural and fresh folk songs. Of course, American country music is still different from Chinese folk songs.

Jin Jingcheng was not nominated for a rural award. Although two songs in his album "mrjin-no.1" contain country elements, they are not country songs.

The hit singers in this category are Dixie-chicks and Kelly Underwood.

Southern Chicken won two awards for Best Country Band/Combination and Best Country Album.

Southern Chicken is a three-member country group from Texas, USA. It is a top contemporary country group. It was once banned by the country music scene for the Iraq War that bombarded President Bush. In 2003, the lead singer of Southern Chicken, Natalie Maines, broke a shocking statement at a concert in London: "As a Texas fellow countryman, we are ashamed of this." As soon as this statement was made, it immediately caused an uproar in the United States, putting Southern Chicken under tremendous pressure. However, Southern Chicken used the song "not-ready-to-make-nice" to counterattack strongly. After this song was released, it was boycotted by country music radio and its sales were disappointing, so that Southern Chicken was banned in the country music scene, and even the lives of the three members were threatened.

Because they were banned in the country music scene, under the guidance of producer Rick Rubin, the latest album of Southern Chicken contains more rock styles and less country styles. Southern Chicken also said that they no longer regard themselves as country singers, so they won two awards at the Grammy Awards Ceremony tonight, Best Country Band/Combination and Best Country Album. Among them, the Best Country Band/Combination Awards was won with the song "not-ready-to-make-nice", which seemed a bit ironic.

When the Southern Chicken came on stage to receive the award, all the singers and audiences stood up and applauded, showing that the social and political climate of the United States had undergone a huge change in the US after the Iraq War. Lead singer Natalie Maines happily imitated the signature "hehe" snickering of the overlord of the cartoon "Simpsons" middle school, saying: "This is really interesting, hehe, many people are going to turn off the TV immediately, I'm sorry for this." Band member Emily Robinson added: "We wouldn't have made this album without going through all the hardships, so we don't regret it at all."

Kelly Underwood won two awards for Best Country Singer and Best Country Song.

Kelly Underwood is a rookie who emerged from a singer talent show. She is the new generation of "American Idol" champion and a very popular idol. This time she defeated several powerful competitors, continued the strong momentum of "American Idol" and carried the idol to the end. However, her ability to win two rural awards is also a strong manifestation of her own strength.

The award for Best Country Male Singer was won by Vince-gill.

Vince Keel is a powerful country singer. Born in 1957, he is already fifty years old this year. He is one of the artists who won the most awards in the Grammy Country Category. He is known as the ever-winning general in the country Category. He has won the Grammy Best Country Male Singer eight times, namely 1991, 1993, 1995-1999 for five consecutive years, and 2004.

Tonight is Vince Kiel's ninth Grammy Best Country Male Singer, adding another note to his award record. However, from his latest country music album, it is not difficult to find that his current country music already likes to combine urban rhythm and country style, which is also a development direction of country music in modern life. From this perspective, Vince Kiel is also a leader among country singers.

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New Century Class.

There is only one award in this category, that is, the Best New Century Album, which was won by Enya for her latest album "amarantine".

This is an unsurprising result.

Enya was born in an Ireland music family in 1961. Her songs contain many classics and are deeply loved by fans from all over the world. Her record sales are also very popular, and her total sales are ranked among the top ten female singers in the world.

Kim Jong-sung personally likes Eun-ya's music. Every time she listens to her songs, she feels like she has entered a mysterious dream. She is half of Eun-ya's fan. Even those who don't know Eun-ya, a female singer, must have heard her songs. Her most famous masterpiece is the theme song "May-it-be" of the movie "Lord of the Rings". This song has won the Oscar for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

This time, Eunya's latest album "amarantine" is a new album released by her after five years. Kim Jong-sung has heard this album many times in her previous life and is familiar with every song on the album. So this time, Kim Jong-sung witnessed Eun-sung win the Best New Century Album for this album. She saw Eun-sung come on stage to receive the award, and she felt novel and wonderful.

Perhaps, for a female singer like Enya, it doesn’t matter whether she wins an award or not. All she has to do is maintain her usual high standards.

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Jazz.

Jin Jingcheng didn't know much about this category of music before, but later, because he opened a high-end jazz bar, he took the initiative to learn about it.

However, tonight, there were several jazz winners, and Jin Jingcheng couldn't even name them. This category is really niche.

It is worth mentioning that the one who won the best jazz album was Nancy (nancy-wilson), a gray-haired senior female singer. Kim Jong-sung had heard some of her jazz music and felt good.

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Spiritual music.

There are also several winners in this category, and Jin Jingcheng can't even call his name.

Coincidentally, not long ago, Kim Jong-sung accidentally listened to a rhythm and blues spiritual album "Hero" online, which is the album of singer Kirk-franklin. This time, Kirk Franklin won the best contemporary rhythm and blues spiritual album with the album "Hero", and won the best spiritual song with the song "imagine-me" in the album.

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Folk ballads.

Best Contemporary Folk/Native American Album, won by Bob Dylan for the album "Modern-times".

"Modern-times" can be regarded as both a rock album or a contemporary folk album. Previously, Bob Dylan had won the best rock singer with this album, and now he has won the best contemporary folk/local American album, which shows that rock and folk can sometimes be connected, and Bob Dylan is indeed the best among them.
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