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Amy Winehouse and Kanye West were the top winners at last night’s Grammy Awards. Despite being granted a travel visa late on Friday, Winehouse still performed via satellite from London, which was arranged when it was thought that she would be denied a visa. She won five awards: Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album for “Back to Black” and Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance for “Rehab.” Winehouse thanked her parents, her record label and her husband “my Blake, incarcerated” in her acceptance speech.

Kanye West earned four awards: Best Rap Solo Performance for ”Stronger,” Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for ”Southside” with Common, Best Rap Song for ”Good Life,” and Best Rap Album for “Graduation.”

Entertainment Weekly has a nice breakdown of the winners in the other categories:

Carrie Underwood (two country-category trophies for ”Before He Cheats”); Rihanna and Jay-Z (Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for the ubiquitous ”Umbrella”); Justin Timberlake (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for ”What Goes Around…Comes Around” and Best Dance Recording for ”LoveStoned/I Think She Knows”); Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters, who split most of the trophies in the rock categories; and even Barack Obama, who beat Bill Clinton for Best Spoken Word Album.

[From EW.com]

The upset of the evening came when Herbie Hancock unexpectedly won album of the year for “River: The Jonie Letters.”

Here are Kanye and Amy’s acceptance speeches, many thanks to RedLasso. We’ll have another post shortly with the performance videos.

Kanye West’s Acceptance Speech

Amy Winehouse’s Acceptance Speech

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures from the arrivals last night. Pictured are Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Cyndi Lauper, Beyonce in a Barbie gown, Solange Knowles in an even worse sack-like dress, Fergie looking bumpalicious, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Foo Fighters, Daughtry, Herbie Hancock, Jay-Z, Seal and Natalie Cole, Amy Lee, Kelis, John Legend, Melissa Joan Hart and Mark Wilkerson, and Maroon 5.

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I hope Britney Spears was watching the Grammy awards last night. Amy Winehouse, whose personal life last year rivaled Spears’, won five awards, including Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Female Vocal Performance and Record of the Year for “Back to Black.” But the real triumph of the night for Amy was her performance, broadcast live from London via satellite. Not only did she look better than she has in ages– including new teeth, radiant looking skin and some much needed weight on her frame, but the old sparkle was back in her eyes. She performed two songs, “You Know I’m No Good,” which she nailed both vocally and performance-wise; and her anthem, “Rehab,” which she fell apart on a bit during the middle, as if she realized the irony of that song now. She appeared nervous, but sober.

Winehouse, sporting her signature beehive and looking healthier than tabloid readers have seen in a long time, tore into “You Know I’m No Good.” Then, appearing to lose the nerves as she went on, she segued into her smash hit “Rehab,” once again making people wonder, upon looking at her fragile frame, where that devastatingly mature voice comes from.

The overseas connection was made just in time for Winehouse to look positively flabbergasted at hearing her name called for Record of the Year. She immediately disappeared into the hugs of her band and various supporters, and the intimate crowd assembled to hear her performance in London started chanting “Amy, Amy!”

“Thank you to everyone at Island Records, everyone at EMI Music Publishing…to my mum and dad, to my Blake incarcerated…and to London, this is for London!” the quirky songbird shouted.

[From E! Online]

If anyone in the music industry could make a fresh start with the public, it’s Amy. While her personal life is beyond ridiculous, what with the drugs and the user husband in jail and the drama — she could do a country album based on her life– there’s no denying that she has amazing talent. Let’s hope her victory at the Grammy’s reinforces her desire to stay off drugs and get back to what she does best. At this point, she has the good will of the listening public on her side– let’s keep our fingers crossed that she doesn’t blow it.

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