Grammy Awards

Barry Manilow has hits and awards, but he's focused on music class

2013-04-19 08:40:00

Eight years ago, Barry Manilow was shocked to hear that a friend's daughter was futilely searching for a saxophone. The student wanted to try something new, but her school didn't have the instrument. Manilow, the veteran singer and composer with more...

Otis R. "Damon" Harris Jr., Temptations singer

2013-02-27 12:44:54

Otis R. "Damon" Harris Jr., a Baltimore singer who performed with the Temptations during the 1970s and later used his own diagnosis of prostate cancer to help raise awareness of the disease in African-American men, died Feb. 18 from the disease at...

Grammy winner Gregg Karukas returns for DC show

2013-02-27 05:19:00

Gregg Karukas was sitting in his car, waiting to meet someone, watching the afternoon Grammy awards ceremony stream on his iPhone for about 10 minutes, when he found out he won. Karukas, a Maryland native who will return to the area for a show in March,...

Otis 'Damon' Harris, Temptations singer and Baltimore native, dead at 62

2013-02-22 09:22:00

Baltimore native Otis "Damon" Harris, a one-time member of the legendary Motown act The Temptations, died on Monday after losing a 14-year-long battle to prostate cancer, according to family spokesman Chuck Woodson. Harris was 62. Harris, a resident...

Richmond chief - Baltimore commissioner finalist - resigns amid Chris Brown scandal

2013-02-12 10:00:00

Richmond, Va. police chief Bryan Norwood, who sources said was a finalist for Baltimore's police commissioner position last year, has stepped down amid a controversy over R&B singer Chris Brown's probation, according to reports.� Los Angeles prosecutors...

Grammy Award-winners fun. coming to Merriweather Post Pavilion

2013-02-12 08:52:00

Grammy Award-winning band fun. is scheduled to play at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia this summer, the venue announced Monday. Fun. took home two Grammys on Sunday night at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The group won best new...

Mardi Gras, Grammy red carpet and The Walking Dead

2013-02-11 05:08:00

Welcome to Mardi Gras week. Even on a Monday, Internet users have plenty to gawk at as New Orleans avoids allowing a celebration to get in the way of a shooting, the Pope resigns for the� first time since the Middle Ages, and Jack White brings down...

Grammy nominees, Kobe Bryant and Tim Cooke are having an awesome St. Nick's Day

2012-12-06 05:47:00

If you stepped into something unexpected today, here's hoping it was related to St. Nicholas Day and not a irresponsible pet owner. Millions of children (and some freaky adults) are finding candy and other assorted junk stuffed into their shoes this...

Call 2012 the year that TV got social

2012-12-23 12:27:00

Call 2012 the year that TV got social -- real social. And if you want the moment of moments, it came in the first debate between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, when someone created the #SaveBigBird hashtag on Twitter...

The Band Perry feels at home at the fair

2012-08-29 05:06:00

For the siblings of the Mississippi trio the Band Perry, there's always been something special about the fair. On "Walk Me Down the Middle," a love song from the group's 2010 self-titled album, lead singer Kimberly Perry instructs a boyfriend to "walk me...

Summer has arrived: The Beach Boys hit the road with new album

2012-06-13 04:55:00

Early on "That's Why God Made the Radio," the new Beach Boys album released earlier this month, comes "Isn't It Time," a breezy pop song bursting at its seams with the group's instantly recognizable vocal harmonies. "The world is changed and yet the game...

Renowned country singer Kathy Mattea to take stage at HCC

2012-04-04 12:20:00

Renowned country singer and recording artist Kathy Mattea will appear in concert on April 28 at the Amoss Center in Bel Air. Mattea, who is the singer of such classics as "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses," "Where've You Been" and many other hits, will...

Beyonce, backstage at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this year, is reveling in being a "Grown Woman."

2013-05-21 12:00:28

Eminem collects a Grammy Award at Staples Center in February 2011. The company that licenses his songs says Facebook infringed on its copyright.

2013-05-21 10:25:44

Paramore members attend the 53rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2011.

2013-05-10 16:51:12