AWARD-WINNING BLUES STARS POCKET SOME GREEN.Byline: Hollywood Reporter Blues legend Bo Diddley will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation The Blues Foundation is an American nonprofit corporation headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee that is affiliated with more than 135 Blues organizations, and with a membership spanning some twenty countries. at the Feb. 29 Pioneer Awards gala. Held this year at the Hollywood Palladium The Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The facility, built in an Art Deco style, includes an 11,200 square foot (1040 m²) dance floor with room for up to 4,000 people. on the evening after the Grammy Awards Grammy Awards Annual awards given by the Recording Academy (officially the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). The first Grammies (the name is a dimunitive of “gramophone”) were given in 1958. , the r&b prizes come with something few other industry honors do - hard cash. Eleven winners will split $225,000, especially helpful to some of the old r&b greats, many of whom earned more admiration than money. The 1996 Pioneer Award winners are singer Bobby Womack, Betty Everett ("The Shoop Shoop Song - It's in His Kiss"), Eddie Floyd ("Knock on Noun 1. knock on - (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul) rugby, rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ball rugby, rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ball Wood"), Johnnie Taylor ("Cheaper to Keep Her"), Johnny "Guitar" Watson Johnny "Guitar" Watson (February 3, 1935 - May 17, 1996) was an American musician whose long career influenced the development of blues, soul music, rhythm & blues, funk, rock music, and rap music. John Watson, Jr. was born in Houston, Texas. His father John Sr. ("Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"), Jay McShann ("Hootie Blues"), trumpeter Dave Bartholomew and groups the Isley Brothers, the Chantels and the Cadillacs. Co-hosting the event are past Pioneer Award recipients Darlene Love and Mavis Staples. |
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