Platinum Entertainment / House Of Blues Music Celebrate Top GRAMMY Awards For Otis Rush, Cissy Houston.DOWNERS GROVE Downers Grove, village (1990 pop. 46,858), Du Page co., NE Ill.; settled 1832, inc. 1873. Downers Grove has undergone population growth and commercial development that include the construction of new office complexes. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 1999--Guitar legend Otis Rush's "Any Place I'm Going" won for Best Traditional Blues Album, and Cissy cissy Noun pl -sies Adjective same as sissy Adj. 1. cissy - having unsuitable feminine qualities effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish, epicene Houston's "He Leadeth Me" was named Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, at the 41st annual 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. , held Wednesday in Los Angeles. Both albums are available on the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically Music label, a subsidiary of Platinum Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : PTET). "We are extremely happy for Otis Rush and Cissy Houston," said Steve Devick, Platinum president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Hopefully this industry recognition will result in greater awareness of their contributions to blues and gospel music, past and present." Both albums are featured at Platinum's online retail Web site, www.PlatinumCD.com. Rush won the Grammy over nominated albums by John Hammond, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson and "A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf." Houston's competition included Della Reese, Beverly Crawford, Rance Allen and the Soul Winners Conference Choir and the Rev. Timothy Wright. Since 1956, Otis Rush has been an international figure in the blues world, a pioneer of Chicago's famed "West Side sound." Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, with co-producer Willie Mitchell, "Any Place I'm Going" features Rush's muscular vocals and visceral left-handed solos on the title track, written with celebrated Grammy-winning songwriter Will Jennings, as well as songs by R&B legends Marvin Gaye ("Pride and Joy") and Sam Cooke ("Laughin' and Clownin'"). Cissy Houston, the mother of pop diva Whitney Houston, is a musical powerhouse in the tradition of gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. In the 1960s she formed the Sweet Inspirations, which provided background vocals on classic soul recordings by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and many others. Houston's House of Blues Music debut "Face To Face" won a Grammy for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album in 1997. Platinum Entertainment produces, licenses, markets and distributes high quality recorded music on the House of Blues, River North, CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. Records and Intersound Classical labels. Products include new releases from established and emerging artists in the adult contemporary, gospel, blues, urban, country and classical music genres, as well as compilations that enable Platinum to exploit its catalog of master recordings. |
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