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42nd Annual Grammy Awards

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42nd Annual Grammy Awards
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The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23, 2000, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1999. Nominations were announced on January 4, 2000.[1] Santana was the main recipient with eight Grammys, tying Michael Jackson's record for most awards won in a single night. Santana's album Supernatural was awarded a total of nine awards. Former Mouseketeers and American teen singers (at the time), Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, were both nominated for Best New Artist, ultimately won by Aguilera.[2]

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Performers

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Presenters

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Award winners

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A circle plateau with the winners of the most notable categories located in downtown Los Angeles

General

Record of the Year
Album of the Year
Song of the Year
Best New Artist

Pop

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Best Dance Recording
Best Pop Album
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance

Rock

Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Best Hard Rock Performance
Best Metal Performance
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Best Rock Song
Best Rock Album
Best Alternative Music Performance

R&B

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Best R&B Song
Best R&B Album
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

Rap

Best Rap Solo Performance
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
Best Rap Album

Country

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

Best Country Collaboration with Vocals

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Song

Best Country Album

Best Bluegrass Album

New Age

Best New Age Album

Jazz

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

Best Latin Jazz Performance

Gospel

Best Rock Gospel Album

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album

Blues

Best Traditional Blues Album
Best Contemporary Blues Album

Children's

Comedy

  • From 1994 through 2003, see "Best Spoken Comedy Album" under the "Spoken" field, below.

Classical

Composing and arranging

Film/TV/media

Folk

Best Traditional Folk Album
Best Contemporary Folk Album

Historical

Latin

Musical show

Music Video

Best Short Form Music Video

Best Long Form Music Video

Packaging and notes

Polka

Production and engineering

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

Spoken

World

Best World Music Album
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Special merit awards

Grammy Hall of Fame Award

MusiCares Person of the Year

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The design of the 42nd GRAMMY AWARDS logo, was commissioned to Mark Deitch and Associates. The actual design was conceived and executed by Raoul Pascual of WYNK Marketing. Michael Green of the Recording Academy stipulated that the logo should encompass all forms of musical genre and (whatever the design) the GRAMMY logo had to be prominently featured. Raoul's concept was to represent music with some of its major instruments: the clarinet for woodwinds, the piano for percussion, the guitar for strings plus a microphone:

"I imagined all the instruments emanating from behind the logo. My problem was how to translate that into a visual. I designed black and white icons of the instruments using a vector program. I was working overtime and I was getting desperate. I was moving the different icons around the GRAMMY logo but none of the combinations seemed to work. As I picked up the guitar icon, I decided to pray and make a deal with God. I said 'if you bless me with a winning design, I will give you the glory every time I share how I designed the GRAMMY logo.' Suddenly, I inadvertently released my hold of the icon and it fell on top of the GRAMMY logo. I stared at the image on my screen and I saw my solution. I added the other icons and curved them to suggest movement from behind. Eureka! That was it!"

With suggestions from the staff and the people at the Recording Academy in the course of several weeks, the design underwent an evolution from a 2 dimensional rendering into 3D.

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Fashion

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A silk chiffon dress identical to that worn by Jennifer Lopez to the 42nd Annual Grammys, this version exhibited at the Fashion Museum, Bath, as part of their Dress of the Year Collection.

In January 2015, Google's president Eric Schmidt cited the massive attention to the dress Jennifer Lopez wore to the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards as the motivation for the creation of Google Images search.[3] In 2000, Google Search results were limited to simple pages of text with links, but the developers worked on developing this further, realizing that an image search was required to answer "the most popular search query" they had seen to date: Jennifer Lopez's green dress.[3][4]

Designed by Donatella Versace, the dress has been described as "jungle green", "sea green" or "tropical" green, a green dress with touches of blue to give an exotic appearance. It is a see-through silk chiffon dress with a tropical leaf and bamboo pattern, with a citrine-studded crotch.[5] The dress "had a low-cut neck that extended several inches below [the] navel, where it was loosely fastened with a sparkly brooch and then opened out again," exposing Lopez’s midriff and then cut along the front of the legs like a bath robe.[6] The dress then drooped behind her on the floor, open at the back.[6][7]

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