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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis warm up for Sunday night’s Grammy Awards
LOS ANGELES — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were a little-known rap duo from Seattle with an album that sold beyond modest expectations a year ago. As 2014 opens, Macklemore and Lewis are the focal point of the Grammy Awards — and few are more surprised than them.
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For ‘Same Love,’ Mary Lambert says, ‘I was sort of a last resort’
In just six hours, Mary Lambert’s life changed drastically. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis had written and produced a song called “Same Love,” but they needed a special hook to finalize the emotional track. Like the rap duo, Lambert is from Seattle, though she had never met them before.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis score early Grammy nomination for ‘Same Love’
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the early focus of “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!” with two nominations and one spirited performance.
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Activists call on Grammys to denounce music, artists that promote violence
Gay rights activists have called the recording artists academy to use Sunday night’s Grammy Awards telecast to denounce music that promotes or celebrates violence against any group of people and the artists who perform such music […]
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LA Center calls Banton’s Grammy nod an ‘affront to LGBT people’
In a posting that appeared on their website Friday, the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center condemned the Grammy nomination for Buju Banton, a “notoriously anti-gay performer whose music promotes the violent murder of LGBT people:” Throughout his career, Banton has performed music that promotes a culture of violence against lesbian and gay people; he sings […]