Full List Of The 57th Grammy Awards Winners

For all music lovers, here is the complete list of winners at the just concluded 2015 Grammy awards held last night in the United States. I would bring a gallery of the stars at the event in another post. 

2015 Grammy Award Winners — See List

Best New Artist

Sam Smith

Album Of The Year 

Beck, Morning Phase

Record Of The Year 

Sam Smith, “Stay With Me”

Song Of The Year 

Sam Smith, “Stay With Me”

Best Pop Solo Performance

Pharrell

Best Pop Vocal Album

Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

Best R&B Performance

Beyonce & Jay Z, “Drunk In Love”

Best Rock Album

Beck, Morning Phase

Best Country Album

Miranda Lambert, Platinum

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance 

A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera, “Say Something”

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Cheek To Cheek

Best Rock Performance

Jack White, “Lazaretto”

Best Metal Performance 

Tenacious D, “The Last In Line”

Best Rock Song 

Paramore, “Ain’t It Fun” Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters

Best Alternative Rock Album

St. Vincent, St. Vincent

Best Rap Performance 

Kendrick Lamar, “I”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration 

Eminem Featuring Rihanna, “The Monster”

Best Rap Song

Kendrick Lamar, “I”

Best Rap Album 

Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP2

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner, “Jesus Children”

Best R&B Song 

Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z, “Drunk In Love”

Best Urban Contemporary Album 

Pharrell Williams, Girl

Best R&B Album 

Toni Braxton & Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album 

Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer, Bass & Mandolin

Best Dance/Electronic Album 

Aphex Twin, Syro

Best Dance Recording

Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne, “Rather Be”

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 

Frozen

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media 

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Song Written for Visual Media 

“Let It Go”, Frozen

Best Country Solo Performance 

Carrie Underwood, “Something In The Water”

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

The Band Perry, “Gentle On My Mind”

Best Country Song 

Glen Campbell, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”

Best Bluegrass Album 

The Earls Of Leicester, The Earls Of Leicester

Best American Roots Performance 

Rosanne Cash, “A Feather’s Not A Bird”

Best American Roots Song 

Rosanne Cash, “A Feather’s Not A Bird”

Best Americana Album 

Rosanne Cash, The River & The Thread

Best Folk Album 

Old Crow Medicine Show, Remedy

Best Music Video 

Pharrell Williams, “Happy”

Best Music Film 

20 Feet From Stardom

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical 

Max Martin

Best Instrumental Composition 

John Williams, “The Book Thief”

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella 

Pentatonix, “Daft Punk”

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals 

Billy Childs, “New York Tendaberry”

Best Historical Album

Hank Williams, The Garden Spot Programs, 1950

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Beck, Morning Phase

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

John Legend, “All Of Me (Tiesto’s Birthday Treatment Remix)”

Best Surround Sound Album 

Beyoncé, Beyoncé

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Jo-El Sonnier, The Legacy

Best World Music Album 

Angelique Kidjo, Eve

Best Improved Jazz Solo

Chick Corea, “Fingerprints”

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Dianne Reeves, Beautiful Life

Best Jazz Instrumental Album 

Chick Corea Trio, Trilogy

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, Life In The Bubble

Best Latin Jazz Album 

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Offense Of The Drum

Best Children’s Album

Neela Vaswani, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)

Best Reggae Album

Ziggy Marley, Fly Rasta

Best Musical Theatre Album 

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Best Blues Album 

Johnny Winter, Step Back

Best Spoken Word Album 

Joan Rivers, Diary Of A Mad Diva

Best Comedy Album 

“Weird Al” Yankovic, Mandatory Fun

Best New Age Album 

Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman, Winds Of Samsara

Best Recording Package 

Pearl Jam, Lightning Bolt

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)

Best Album Notes

Ashley Kahn, John Coltrane – Offering: Live At Temple University

Ivory Coast Battles Ghana To Emerge As The Caf Africa Cup Of Nations 2015 Winner

French speaking African nation Ivory Coast has emerged as the winner of Caf Africa cup of nations 2015. The final match in the tournament kept millions of fans worldwide glued to the television screen while thousands of others cheered in the stadium as Ghana and Ivory Coast battled for the most prestigious African football title. 

The match ended in penalty with  9-8 victory in favour of Ivory Coast. 

Congrats to them! 

Breaking News: INEC Postpones Nigeria 2015 General Elections for 6 weeks

Breaking News
INEC postpones Nigeria 2015 General Elections for 6 weeks
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to postpone the 2015 General Elections.

INEC reached the decision at a stakeholders meeting held today, February 7. INEC had earlier announced that it would reach a final decision today.

An official close to the commission told The Associated Press that INEC had decided to postpone the election for six weeks due to the threat posed by Boko Haram.

The source added that the poll shift would allow extra time for a newly constituted multinational force to secure the North-East which is currently being plagued by Boko Haram attacks.

It would also enable the commission continue distribution of Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) to citizens to prevent mass disenfranchisement.

INEC is expected to make an official announcement of the postponement at a news conference later in the day.

The initial call for the postponement of the polls was made by National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki but it was voted against by the Council of State.
-Pulse.ng

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Top Nigerian Celebrities Open Up About Being Sexually Abused

Sexual abuse is a terrible act and it is worse when adults who are meant to protect children take advantage of them. Like the saying goes everyone has a story. According to PM News, some Nigerian celebrities shared the pain and story of being sexually abused and molested as children, read more below.

While in some cases, it was outright abuse, some of the celebrities said theirs was a near-rape experience.

Also shocking is the realisation that sexual molestation is not restricted to women alone as some male celebrities also told of their experiences.

For example, in an interview with Juilablaise, Benson Okonkwo, a popular Nollywood actor, disclosed that he was sexually abused by a 35-year old neighbour, who he knew as ‘aunty’ while he was just 10 years old.

The Nollywood actor who described the experience as very ugly, said he has been unable to erase what happened on that occasion from his memory.

“People feel that things are always rosy for actors, and they feel that it is all about glamour but the truth is that we have all had our ugly experiences.

“I was sexually abused at the tender age of 10 by my 35-year old neighbour called Aunty Amaka, a lady who I loved and respected so much.

“She took advantage of me on that fateful afternoon after luring me with sweets and biscuits. She stole my innocence and ever since I have been haunted by that hurtful memory; that is why I put passion into my acting job because its takes away my pain,” he said.

Ice Prince, the popular Nigerian singer, has revealed that he was molested by his aunt at age 13.

In an interview with an entertainment-specialised newspaper, the singer was quoted as saying he had his first sexual experience at 13

“I would not say it was a good thing at all. It’s something I regret whatever it was. It wasn’t a sweet experience at all.

“I had this aunty, though we were not related, she was just a neighbour who was living close to us, who came into my room and slept with me.

“It wasn’t a good experience at all. I was scared, very scared. I saw hell. It was a terrible experience. I am not excited talking about it at all. Sex is not that good. I think sex is over-rated. I don’t know.

“She just came into my room and just forced me to do it with her…But she made me lose my innocence. The woman is still alive,” he said.

Charles Oputa, popularly called Charly Boy also nurses such nasty experience and in his case, he even reportedly contracted a sexually transmitted disease at age 12.

He was quoted as saying: “when I was barely 10 years old, my baby nurse was caught tampering with me sexually, Chineke!”

He called it a practice that pleasured him even though I did not know what to do. He could however remember how angry his mother was when they were caught.

“She beat the living hell out of my baby nurse, (I) didn’t even know my mum knew karate and judo then. No be small thing.

“By the time I turned 12, I was deflowered by a local whore who dashed me my first STD. The discomfort I experienced was very scary, it was as if my kini was on fire.

“I confided in my Mama, who took it upon herself to further frighten and scare the living day light out of me, telling me how sex is so bad and dangerous.

“From then on, girls were getting pregnant around me like they were all catching cold. The more I was beaten up by my father and scared shitless by my mother for my waywardness; the more stories of pregnant girls all over the bloody place grew.

“Meanwhile in secondary school, my mates were busy being good children, reading their books; I was busy fornicating all over the place getting girls pregnant. It was incredible when I come to think about it now. Yes oh! I was catching my fun with reckless abandon while my parents prayed for my deliverance…

“By the time I was 16 years old I had my first baby. Of course, not to be seen as a cursed child I denied any knowledge of ever knowing the woman at the time,” he said recalling that the women were usually older than him, some by 10 years.

“By the time I turned 19, my mother in her wisdom talked me into getting married early. I went along with the programme…That marriage failed before it kicked off, I was just too young and immature to understand what I was getting myself into.

“That’s how I ended up marrying three times, experimenting with different women before meeting my present anointed wife, lady Diane,” he said, adding that he learnt from the experience.

“My first son is about 46 years old now, an associate professor at MIT in Boston Mass. USA. Then, it was taboo for a young man of 16 to be making babies; right now my people, it’s a blessing and I thank God daily.

“I have nine kids and 14 grandchildren. I have had my fill, God knows, but the hardest thing was the discipline I had to employ when I built the larger-than-life image that is Charly Boy,” he revealed.

While sharing her experience, Nigerian female singer, Niyola, said: “I have been molested quite a number of times. Thankfully, I haven’t been defiled. I have been molested by both people I never imagined would molest me…and obviously strangers as well.

“And it wasn’t once, it wasn’t twice. It wasn’t three times. But what helped me was that I started to try to figure out at that time why anybody would want to do that to me or to any female. I realised it was cowardice

“A lot of things could be done to prevent the situations and protect yourself. I remember for a very long time, I would never visit guys. And when I started to live alone when I was in school, you would never come to my room for any reason.

“…But I realised that if you share your experience with people, your fellow women, you’ll find that it’s not that big a deal that you can’t come out and talk about it because it’s not your fault that someone tried to molest you. Such people should actually be punished and brought to book.”

For Lola Omotayo-Okoye, who addressed a group of young women at a programme, Dare2Dream Master Class, she was sexually abused by a priest while she was in secondary school.

Lola, wife to Peter Okoye of the P-Square fame was quoted as saying she could not tell anyone because she feared she would be blamed. Rather she became an angry person, becoming rebellious and “didn’t want to listen to anybody.”

 In Foluke Daramola’s case, the actress was deflowered by a rapist as she said in an interview sometime ago.

Foluke, who founded Action Against Rape In Africa, a non-governmental organisation, said she was raped by a tenant in her parents’ house, who she was close to and saw as an elder brother.

She however said the situation was managed because it was something people did not want to make public at the time, but the incident affected her psychologically.

February Elections Might Be Postponed

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the upcoming General Elections might be postponed if it’s unable to distribute enough Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) to citizens.

An electoral commissioner made the revelation during a press conference on Wednesday, February 4, saying that the elections could be delayed if the number of PVCs distributed was too low, Reuters reports.

"Let's see how the PVC (permanent voter card) distribution goes by Feb 8, then maybe," Amina Zachary, an INEC staff reportedly said.

She however added that no official decision had been taken on the matter by the commission.

-pulse.ng

Bruce Jenner’s Mom CONFIRMS He’s Becoming A Woman In Blockbuster Interview – ‘I’m So Proud Of Him!’

After months of speculation, RadarOnline.com can confirm that the rumors are true: Bruce Jenner is transitioning to become a woman! In a world exclusive interview, his mother, Esther Jenner, confirmed the news and revealed that she is so proud of her son.

“I just learned about [his transition],” she told Radar exclusively. “Bruce filled me in, and we had a very long, long, long talk about it.”

Confirming the news that he’ll share his journey on a documentary TV show, Esther said, “I have never been more proud of Bruce for who he is, himself as a father, as an Olympian, a wonderful public speaker. He instills enthusiasm in people. He’s gifted.”

Esther admitted she “did not know of his” inner struggle until recently. But she insisted, “Right now I am more proud of him for what he’s allowing himself to do. I am more proud of him now than when he stood on that podium and put the gold medal around his neck. He deserves all the respect.”

As Radar reported, Bruce hasn’t found much support from his ex, Kris Jenner, or her daughter Kim Kardashian. But his mom is solidly in his corner.

“I support him whole-heartedly,” she continued. “I just love him like I always have.”

And why, after all these years, is Bruce speaking out now? Esther said that even in his most challenging moment, Bruce is thinking of the millions he may help.

“If he can help other people with emotional problems,” she said, then it will all be worth it.

-Radaronline.com

Love In Ghana!! Pokello And Elikem Reconciles After Sugar Mama Drama

Big Brother Africa The Chase housemates are back together after a rocky breakup last year. According to Ghana web, Elikem Kumordzie and Pokello Nare, are at it again, months after reports that their relationship had hit the rocks. 

NEWS-ONE cameras caught the two lovebirds last Friday evening when they stepped out in style, holding each other’s hands and taking selfies in public while doing what lovers do. 

It was the first time Eli and Pokello were seen in public after reports of their break-up late last year. It would be recalled that late November 2014, reports went viral that they had broken up. 

Elikem Kumordzie was widely reported to have confirmed on his Twitter account that he had a four-year sexual relationship with the wife of celebrated footballer Nii Odartey Lamptey. 

Just when the news was spreading, another alarming comment appeared on the Twitter page of Elikem’s lover, Pokello: “Can some1 ask Gloria Lamptey where she was when Elikem proposed? +233 23 323 3871 stop calling and txtn my fone.46yrs old r u not ashamed?” 

Elikem, in a response to the growing media reports, gave a rather confusing explanation of how the tweets got on his wall and said he had never confirmed to have had a sexual relationship with the wife of the Ghanaian footballer. 

Elikem’s response suggested that his lover Pokello was behind the tweets and that she was doing that to suit her interests. 

He continued with another tweet : “1. who opened my account while I was in the BBA house? 2. Therefore who has my passwords? Q and A.” 

Though Elikem wanted the public to believe his account was hacked, he fell short of giving details and seemed to have taken control of the same account, from where he threw jabs at a section of the media who broke the story based on the alarming tweets on his wall. 

Surprisingly, all the ‘revealing’ tweets on Elikem’s wall were deleted and the ones on Pokello’s wall were also deleted. 

The two, however, were seen together last Friday when they attended the premiere of 30 Days In Atlanta at the Silverbird Cinemas in Accra, and their body language was an obvious signal to those who care that their love is still waxing strong. 

Elikem, who represented Ghana at the 2013 edition of Big Brother Africa, surprised Ghanaians, Africans and perhaps the world when he officially proposed marriage to Pokello on live TV during the 15th edition of Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) in Accra.

They watched the new movie together and spent a little time to grant a photo shooting opportunity to their fans. 

Meanwhile Friday’s premiere of 30 Days In Atlanta attracted overwhelming numbers. 

Hot! See Kim Kardashian's New Advert That Is On Everyones Lips

Kim Kardashian West keeps smiling to the bank against all odds. On Sunday North's mum posted on Instagram a photo of her new advert with the caption, 'I have something special for you guys.' 

The new advert for T Mobile which was aired during the Super Bowl, shows Kim acting sultry.

'Hi. I'm Kim. Each month millions of gigs of unused data are taken back by wireless companies. Tragic,' she started the television commercial by saying.

'Data you paid for that could be used to see my makeup, my backhand, my outfits, my vacation and my outfits, with the tagline '

The commercial showed reality television star taking selfies in a white midriff-baring tennis outfit, in a vanity mirror wearing nude lingerie, in a tight white gown and also in a black skiing outfit with fur-lined jacket.

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PDP Floods Ogun State With Bags Of Rice

Ogun east senatorial candidate Prince Buruji Kashamu was pictured over the weekend in a warehouse full of bags of rice as give away before and after the presidential campaigns for PDP supporters. 

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Photos Of Amber Rose And Other Guests At D'banj's 10th Anniversary

Nigerian superstar, D'banj is celebrating his 10th anniversary, and it has kicked off with a party hosted by American diva, Amber Rose.

A number of celebrity guests are in attendance at the Ocean View, Lagos, including Ice Prince, Kayswitch, Seyi Law, Orezi, Toke Makinwa, and others.

-Pulse.ng