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Watch Aretha Franklin Accept Best R&B Vocal Performance At The 14th GRAMMY Awards | GRAMMY Rewind

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Travel back in time to the 14th GRAMMY Awards in 1972 where The Temptations present Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin with the award for Best R&B Vocal Performance
Rachel Brodsky
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Sep 13, 2019 - 9:57 am

Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin has 44 GRAMMY nominations and 18 wins to her name, winning her very first in the '60s at the 10th GRAMMY Awards.

By 1972, she'd racked up a few more, but that didn't stop her from looking delighted as she took home the golden gramophone for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for her classic cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

Aretha Franklin Wins At The 14th GRAMMY Awards

In our latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind, you can watch Aretha herself accept the award from fellow soul singers and GRAMMY winners The Temptations, who dance their way up to the podium to present the coveted award. Check it out above. 

Before she passed away last year, Aretha left a musical legacy like none other. She was the recipient of the GRAMMY Legend Award and the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award, her philanthropy was recognized with the 2008 MusiCares Person Of The Year honor and many of her recordings have been inducted in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. 

Last year, at the 61st GRAMMY Awards, singers Andra Day, Fantasia and Yolanda Adams paid tribute to Aretha with a performance of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." 

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch The Roots And Erykah Badu Gleefully Win Their First GRAMMY in 2000

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The hip-hop greats won their first GRAMMY for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for “You Got Me” from 1999’s ‘Things Fall Apart’
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Jan 29, 2021 - 10:44 am

Before the Roots were omnipresent on NBC’s "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," the Philly hip-hop heavyweights led by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson were a hungry, ambitious crew notable for incorporating live instruments and jazzy textures into an often sample-based form.

For the latest episode of GRAMMY Rewind, watch as the crew wins their first GRAMMY for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group at the dawn of the new millennium. The band took home the award for “You Got Me” from their classic 1999 album Things Fall Apart. In the clip, they and their Soulquarians collaborator Erykah Badu elatedly accept the award with smiles visible from space.

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch A Golden Mary J. Blige Win Best R&B Album In 2007

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"It has not only shown that I'm an artist, a musician and a writer, but it's also shown that I'm growing into a better human being. Tonight, we celebrate the better human being," the R&B legend said
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Jan 15, 2021 - 12:49 pm

For the latest episode of GRAMMY Rewind (watch in full below), witness nine-time GRAMMY winner Mary J. Blige shine as she accepts her Best R&B Album win at the 49th GRAMMY Awards in 2007 for The Breakthrough. The award was presented by the Black Eyed Peas, including Fergie, who held Blige's clutch like any good girlfriend would.

Mary J. Blige Wins Best R&B Album In 2007

"I want to thank God for this album, and this award for this album," the "Family Affair" artist said while holding back tears. She looked glamorous in a golden rhinestone encrusted gown and cascading diamond earrings to match.

"It has not only shown that I'm an artist, a musician and a writer, but it's also shown that I'm growing into a better human being. Tonight, we celebrate the better human being."

That evening, the "Real Love" singer was nominated for eight GRAMMYs and won three, with her classic slow jam "Be Without You" earning Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.

The Breakthrough is her seventh studio album—and the first to win a GRAMMY—and was released in 2005. She won her very first GRAMMY with Method Man at the 38th GRAMMY Awards for their vibey 1995 collab, "I'll Be There For You / You're All I Need To Get By." She won her first solo GRAMMY for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 2003 for "He Think I Don't Know," from her GRAMMY-nominated fifth studio album, No More Drama.

GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Mariah Carey Shine As She Wins Best New Artist At The 1991 GRAMMYs

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Mariah Carey at the 1991 GRAMMYs

Mariah Carey at the 1991 GRAMMYs

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Mariah Carey Shine As She Wins Best New Artist At The 1991 GRAMMYs

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In the latest episode of GRAMMY Rewind, watch the powerhouse songstress accept her Best New Artist gramophone
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Nov 27, 2020 - 10:43 am

In the latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind, witness a 20-year-old Mariah Carey shine brightly at the 1991 GRAMMYs as she accepts her Best New Artist GRAMMY win.

"I'd just like to thank God for the blessings that have brought me here," she says, rocking curly locks and a classy, rhinestone-encrusted little black dress.

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That year, she took home her first two golden gramophones, also winning Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her debut hit single, "Vision of Love." The powerful song was also nominated for Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year, while her self-titled debut album, which opens with the track, got a nod for Album Of The Year.

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B.B. King at 1971 GRAMMYs

B.B. King at 1971 GRAMMYs

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Blues Legend B.B. King Win His First GRAMMY In 1971

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In the latest episode of GRAMMY Rewind, witness the King of Blues accept his first of 15 career GRAMMYs
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Oct 30, 2020 - 11:08 am

There is a moment in every legend's life when the world begins to really witness the mastery of their artform. For B.B. King, there was no turning back from his fate to become the King of Blues after releasing "The Thrill Is Gone" in 1969. His reimaging of Roy Hawkins' jazzy 1951 R&B hit would remain one of his biggest songs—and the highest-charting, hitting No. 15 on the Hot 100.

At the 1971 GRAMMYs, the classic blues bop would also earn him his first of 15 career GRAMMY wins.

Legend B.B. King Wins His First GRAMMY In 1971

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For the latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind, we revisit this first-ever GRAMMY win for the guitar great. Above, watch a humbled, dapper King accept the golden gramophone for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

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