Music’s Biggest Night Show Has Many Biggest Unfamiliar Facts That Amaze You More! Find the Surprising Facts Of Grammy Awards Here

Updated on December 09, 2021 13:24 PM by Emily Hazel

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Olden Day Name Is Eddie Before The Modern Day Name Grammy

One of the Grammy Awards Academy founders and a Columbia record executive, Paul Weston, said that "Eddie" was one of the names chosen for the Grammy awards after Thomas Edison, father of Gramophone.

Live Telecast After A Decade Of Celebrations

According to Grammy official website, the first annual Grammy Awards was celebrated in 1959. However, the first Grammy Award show's live telecast was in 1971 during its 13th award function.

Weight And Material Of The Grammy Awards

Do you know the outstanding award Grammy's weight? The pride of the Grammy Award is big, but the weight of the Grammy Award is only five pounds. The Grammy Award is made of Grammium, a combo of trademarked zinc and aluminum metal alloy. Also, the part of the Grammy Award statue is plated with 24-karat gold.

Five Awards But A Fabulous Record

Christopher Cross had won the Grammy Award during its 23rd annual ceremony. However, he is still holding the record of 37 years by winning "General Four" categories, all awards in the same year. Christopher Cross won the Grammy Award for the record, album, song of the year, and the best new artist.

Though Nominated For Several Times, Not Once Was A Winner

Being a nominee for the Grammy Awards will make the artist feel proud of their best work nominated for the award. But while losing the award after getting nominated is a distressing factor. There is a person who got selected for Grammy Awards 26 times and lost the chance to win it all the time. Hence by being the nominee 26 times, the person who misses the Grammy award 26 times is Norwegian sound engineer Morten Lindberg.

Presidents Who Win Grammy Awards

Barack Obama, who was ex-president, once had won the Grammy Award two times in the year 2005 and 2008 while being the presidential candidate. For the Albums "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," Obama had won the award for best-spoken word. As well, the former president Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter had also won many Grammy Awards.