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Watch Cyndi Lauper Perform "Time After Time" At The 27th GRAMMY Awards | GRAMMY Rewind

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The '80s pop icon won Best New Artist that year, in addition to "Time After Time" being nominated for Song Of The Year
Rachel Brodsky
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Sep 6, 2019 - 9:59 am

Pop torchbearer Cyndi Lauper is many things: singer, songwriter, actress, activist and a two-time GRAMMY winner. Early in her career, she memorably performed her 1983 single "Time After Time" at the 27th GRAMMY Awards, which you can relive below.

Cyndi Lauper Performs "Time After Time" In 1985

She won Best New Artist that year, and was nominated for four more GRAMMYs: Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female) for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," Song Of The Year for "Time After Time," Album Of The Year for She's So Unusual, and Record Of The Year for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." 

Watch Lauper's performance of "Time After Time" above, and stay tuned for more looks into the GRAMMYs archive with GRAMMY Rewind performances, famous acceptance speeches and more.

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Slipknot at the 2006 GRAMMYs

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Watch: It's Always Halloween For Daft Punk, KISS, CeeLo Green, Bootsy Collins & The Blue Man Group

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Happy Halloween! Check out this epic reel of some of the most Oct. 31st-ready looks from across the years at the GRAMMYs
Ana Yglesias
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Oct 31, 2019 - 9:36 am

Today may officially be Halloween, but the artists in the below video prove you can rock your spookiest and most outlandish outfits anywhere, including on the GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMYs red carpet and stage. If you're still in need of a last-minute Halloween costume, this video will provide plenty of inspiration.

In the video you'll spot Lady Gaga's famous golden egg, which she was carried in across the 53rd GRAMMY Awards red carpet, giving birth to a fabulous "Born This Way" performance later that evening. You'll also find Sia rocking one of her iconic giant face-obscuring wigs and Daft Punk and the Blue Man Group (at the 2012 Latin GRAMMYs) just being themselves as they walk the carpet. 

KISS, Daft Punk & CeeLo Green: GRAMMYs' Fun 'Fits

There are so many electric and eccentric looks packed into the one-minute video, so let's review a few more. The chrome and gold versions of the elusive French electronic duo's helmets were the ones they looked sleek in on the carpet at the 56th GRAMMY Awards in 2014. Evidently, being a robot is probably harder than we think, and they later changed into white helmets and suits for their funk-filled performance with Stevie Wonder, Nile Rogers and Pharrell Williams. This dynamic crew later took home Album Of The Year and Best Dance/Electronica Album, among other wins, for Random Access Memories.

Near the end of this video, you'll find Williams donning his infamous sky-high tan hat with a red Adidas track jacket, his GRAMMY look that year. In this reel, you'll also see CeeLo Green being CeeLo, on stage in a Carnival-meets-Knights-at-the-Roundtable ensemble during his performance of "Forget You" at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards, which also featured the Muppets and Gwyneth Paltrow.

The one and only Madonna channels a matador and Marie Antoinette at the 57th GRAMMYs, while Kanye West and Jamie Foxx suit up for the marching band during their performance of Ye's GRAMMY-winning hit "Gold Digger" at the 48th GRAMMY Awards in 2006. You'll also see funk legend Bootsy Collins posing with metal guitar slayer—and KFC bucket wearing—Buckethead, as well as fellow mask-concealing hard rockers Slipknot, who pose with their gramophones for Best Metal Performance in 2006. Finally, it would be sacrilegious on this day to not pay tribute to Nicki Minaj serving up Little Red Riding Hood couture in her 2012 Versace gown, alongside a Pope look-alike.

Happy Halloween!

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Taylor Swift Win Album Of The Year For 'Fearless' In 2010

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"This is for my dad. This is for all those times that you said I could do whatever I wanted in life. And my mom, you're my best friend," the pop performer said at the time
Rachel Brodsky
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Nov 15, 2019 - 10:00 am

In 2010, pop powerhouse Taylor Swift was just beginning to come into her own as a household name, with ultra-catchy singles like "You Belong With Me" and "Love Story," among others, from her sophomore 2008 album, Fearless.

Swift took home four trophies that night at the 52nd GRAMMY Awards, one of which was for Album Of The Year. Re-experience her acceptance speech below for this latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind:

Taylor Swift Wins Album Of The Year In 2010

"I just hope that you know how much this means to me... that we get to take this back to Nashville!" she said onstage. "Our families are freaking out in their living rooms! My dad and my little brother are losing their minds in our living room right now.

"This is for my dad," she continued. "This is for all those times that you said I could do whatever I wanted in life. And my mom, you're my best friend. This is the story all of us when we're 80 years old and we are telling the same stories over and over again to our grandkids and they're so annoyed with us, this is the story we're going to be telling over and over again in 2010 that we got to win Album Of The Year at the GRAMMYs."

Watch Swift's thank you speech above, and look out for more Friday editions of GRAMMY Rewind!

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Watch Christina Aguilera's Riveting Performance Of "Beautiful" At The 2004 GRAMMY Awards

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The pop powerhouse won the golden gramophone that year for Best Pop Performance for her mid-'00s hit
Rachel Brodsky
GRAMMYs
Nov 8, 2019 - 10:38 am

Pop icon Christina Aguilera has been rolling out hit after hit for more than two decades, and in 2004 she wowed GRAMMY audiences with a her empowering Stripped ballad "Beautiful." 

Christina Aguilera Performs "Beautiful" In 2004

Wearing a pinstripe suit and backed by a string orchestra, the five-time GRAMMY winner belted out the words to her anthem, which was famously written and produced by Linda Perry. Aguilera also won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Beautiful" at the 46th GRAMMY Awards.

Watch the latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind above, and check in again next Friday for another edition.

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Watch Whitney Houston & David Foster Win Record Of The Year For "I Will Always Love You"

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"Thank you, Mommy and Daddy. Thank you, Lord. Thank you everybody who bought this record and loved it. God bless you," the late pop performer told the audience in '94
Rachel Brodsky
GRAMMYs
Nov 1, 2019 - 10:14 am

Ballad "I Will Always Love You" has seen a number of renditions over the years. Originally written and performed by country treasure Dolly Parton in 1973, "I Will Always Love You" went on to be covered by a number of famous singers, one of them being the late, great Whitney Houston.

In the early '90s, Houston recorded a new arrangement of the power ballad with help from super-producer and multi-GRAMMY winner David Foster, who famously worked on the soundtrack for "The Bodyguard," which starred Houston (her film debut) and Kevin Costner. 

David Foster & Whitney Houston Win ROTY In '94

Well, the duo's "I Will Always Love You" cover was ultimately so successful that it won Record Of The Year at the 36th GRAMMY Awards in 1994. Watch Foster and Houston accept their award in this latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind above.

"Thank you, David, for such a great production," Houston breathlessly told the audience. "Thank you, Mommy and Daddy. Thank you, Lord. Thank you everybody who bought this record and loved it. God bless you."

Watch their full acceptance speech above.

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