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Watch: Lady Gaga And Bradley Cooper In 'A Star Is Born' Trailer

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Gaga and Cooper shine in the first glimpse at their new remake of the 1937 classic
Nate Hertweck
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Jun 7, 2018 - 7:37 am

The impending release of A Star Is Born starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga has film buffs and music fans alike buzzing with anticipation. Now, the official trailer for the film has arrived, teasing Cooper and Gaga's on screen dynamic for the first time.

Cooper, who also directed the film, plays road-worn country singer Jackson Maine. He discovers an unknown singer named Ally (Gaga) as she's just about to give up on her dream of making it big as a star. The duo fall in love off-stage as Maine revives Ally's passion for the spotlight on stage, but as her career surges, their relationship can't escape the pitfalls of stardom.

The film marks Gaga's first leading role on the silver screen, and the trailer shows the GRAMMY-winning megastar in a new light. In the wake of the trailer's release, her loyal fans, the Little Monsters, took to Twitter to find inventive ways of expressing their excitement, including an elated retweet from GRAMMY nominee Katy Perry. 

The cast of Cooper's remake also features GRAMMY winner Dave Chappelle, plus seasoned actors Sam Elliott and Andrew Dice Clay. The original 1937 film starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Two other remakes have been executed since, including the 1954 version starring GRAMMY winner Judy Garland and James Mason, and the 1976 version starring GRAMMY Winners Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The 1976 film was a blockbuster, earning $80 million at the U.S. box office and yielding soundtrack that held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for six weeks.

Gaga and Cooper co-wrote a number of the movie's original songs, and she also worked with Lukas Nelson, and GRAMMY winners Jason Isbell, Dave Cobb and Mark Ronson to craft songs for the film. Gaga reportedly insisted that the material be recorded live on set.

The newest version of A Star Is Born hits theatres October 5.

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Song Of The Year Nominations Roundup | 2019 GRAMMY Awards

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It all starts with a song — created by teams of composers, lyricists and beatmasters in collaboration, these are the 61st GRAMMY nominees for Song Of The Year
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Dec 7, 2018 - 5:36 am

The songwriting teams who collaborated to create the Song Of The Year nominees for the 61st GRAMMY Awards were successful by combining the musical talents of individuals into strong tunes that transported millions into their musical worlds. It all starts with a song, and these eight nominated numbers began with the spark on an idea, but their final result speaks for itself. Their results sing. Here's a look at this year's GRAMMY nominees for Song Of The Year.

"All The Stars" (performed by Kendrick Lamar & SZA)

The songwriting category nominees are  listed not by their stage names but by legal birth names, known to hardcore fans. Kendrick Duckworth is Kendrick Lamar, Pulitzer recipient and winner of 12 GRAMMY awards.  Solána Rowe is the official songwriting name of SZA. Together, their "All The Stars" led the charge that added Black Panther's origin story to the Marvel universe and became the cornerstone of the movie's soundtrack. Their GRAMMY-winning co-writers for "All The Stars," Al Shux, Sounwave and Top Dawg are also known as Al Shuckburgh, Mark Spears & Anthony Tiffith respectively.

"Boo'd Up" (performed by Ella Mai)

The R&B hit "Boo'd Up catapulted Ella Mai into the national spotlight, fueling her breakout year as an artist. Co-writer Larrance Dopson or Rance has been nominated twice before and Dijon McFarlane is better known as DJ Mustard. Co-writer Joelle James is a singer/songwriter and producer, who performed at Showtime at the Apollo when she was age 11, and has collaborated as a grown-up on duets with Chris Brown.

"God's Plan" (performed by Drake)

"October's Very Own" GRAMMY winner Drake, nominated as Aubrey Graham, co-wrote the moving "God's Plan" with talented collaborators Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, GRAMMY winner Noah "40" Shebib, and previously nominated Cardo and Boi-1da, the stage names of Ron LaTour and Matthew Samuels. The song succeeded on release with both Drake's loyal fans and new listeners, spending double-digit weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"In My Blood" (performed by Shawn Mendes)

Shawn Mendes, a chart-topping young singer/songwriter, worked with a crew of long-time collaborators to pen his biggest hit of the year, "In My Blood." These are singer/songwriter and producer Teddy Geiger, songwriter and producer Scott Harris and Geoffrey Warburton. Together their writing has made millions of hearts beat faster with sincere messages that musically represent Mendes himself.

"The Joke" (performed by Brandi Carlile)

Working with GRAMMY-winning songwriter and producer Dave Cobb, singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile added to her canon of originals with "The Joke." The twin Hanseroth brothers, Phil and Tim, who co-wrote "The Joke" also play guitar and bass on the song. "I wrote 'The Joke' about a reckoning and a revolution and a time that's coming when we'll realize that love has already conquered the world and pick it back up," says Carlile about the powerful and uplifting song.

"The Middle" (performed by Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey)

"The Middle" shows off the vocals of GRAMMY-winning country singer Maren Morris, over a highly danceable beat. GRAMMY winner Anton Zaslavski, better known as Zedd, co-wrote the song with Kyle and Michael Trewartha, who are the duo Grey, as well as four other hitmakers including Sarah Aarons, who has written for Grey before and for many hip young artists, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, and Marcus Lomax, the latter three who are songwriters and producers from The Monsters And The Strangerz team in Miami.

"Shallow" (performed by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)

"Shallow" is the lone eligible song from Lady Gaga's A Star Is Born hit soundtrack album. It was co-written by the six-time GRAMMY-winning diva and three collaborators. Singer/songwriter and punk guitarist Anthony Rossomando rocked with previous nominee Andrew Wyatt and five-time GRAMMY-winning songwriter and producer Mark Ronson. Gaga has added her starring role as Ally in the film to her impressive series of distinct expressions of self, inspiring millions to draw on the inner creativity and courage that can be heard in the lines and melodies on "Shallow."

"This Is America" (performed by Childish Gambino)

Released in May, "This Is America" and its sensational cultural commentary helped usher in a big summer for GRAMMY winner Childish Gambino, real name Donald Glover. The song was co-written with long-time collaborator Ludwig Göransson, who also had the lead "Music by" credit on the soundtrack for 2018's Black Panther. Our oral history of the pair's Awaken My Love anticipates the messages of "This Is America" by Glover's comment that the GRAMMY-nominated album had been a challenge to create while "America [was] going through a lot."

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Here's Your First Look At Angela Aguilar Covering Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper's "Shallow" For ReImagined

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The young GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominee will reveal her full ReImagined cover of "Shallow" on Tuesday, July 23
Rachel Brodsky
GRAMMYs
Jul 19, 2019 - 9:57 am

The next installment of ReImagined arrives on Tuesday, July 23 at 10am PT, but you can catch a special sneak peek of Angela Aguilar performing her exclusive cover of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born ballad "Shallow" right now.

Sneak Peek: Angela Aguilar ReImagines "Shallow"

The young GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominee has been a Gaga and A Star Is Born fan for a while now. In fact, right before the 61st GRAMMY Awards, the young ranchera singer told the Recording Academy how she hoped she'd run into the pop icon on Music's Biggest Night:

"I saw this movie called A Star Is Born where Lady Gaga performs, and that was one of the best things I've ever seen," she said at the time. "I haven't cried that much in a movie since, like, Bambi. I feel like if I see her I'm gonna kind of have like a starstruck moment. I never get starstruck  because I've been in the industry for so long, and I live in Los Angeles. It's everywhere. But with her I think I might get a little antsy."

Check out a special preview above, and be sure to catch Aguilar's full ReImagined performance on YouTube or our video page on Tuesday, July 23 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. 

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Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper Perform "Shallow" At The 2019 Oscars

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The 'A Star Is Born' leads took home Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Shallow" at the 61st GRAMMY Awards
Rachel Brodsky
GRAMMYs
Feb 24, 2019 - 7:18 pm

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, who recently won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Shallow" at the 61st GRAMMY Awards, performed a stunning, spare rendition of their ballad at the 2019 Academy Awards.

Wearing a black dress and a prominent neck jewel, Gaga played the piano while her acting counterpart sang across from her. 

At the 2019 GRAMMY Awards, Gaga accepted the golden gramophone for the pair; marking her second win of the night and the first-ever win for actor Cooper. "Shallow" also won Best Song Written For Visual Media, and Gaga's "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" snagged Best Pop Solo Performance.

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Lady Gaga's "Shallow" and Black-ish's "Juneteenth" Win Guild Of Music Supervisors Awards

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When music supervisors like these GMS Awards winners excel at their work, audiences are more deeply engaged with dramatic emotion that makes entertainment more powerful
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Feb 14, 2019 - 1:30 pm

Previous GRAMMY nominees Julianne Jordan and Julia Michels were the big winners on Feb. 13 at the Guild of Music Supervisors 9th Annual Awards, winning two out of 18 categories for their work on A Star Is Born.

Just three days earlier, at the 61st GRAMMY Awards, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for the film's song "Shallow." They were also the front-and-center faces for the music-movie phenomenon, but it was Jordan and Michels' work behind the scenes and behind the soundtrack that won for Best Music Supervision For Films Budgeted Over $25 Million and Best Song/Recording Created For A Film for "Shallow."

Lukas Nelson performed "Shallow" at the GMS ceremony, held in Los Angeles at Theater at Ace Hotel. Nelson and his band, Promise Of The Real, acted as Cooper's onscreen backing musicians in A Star Is Born.

GMS also recognizes music in advertising, trailers and videogames: A good example of the latter was Jordan Silverberg's work on Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (Trailer 1), which won Best Music Supervision In A Film Trailer. 

In other wins, Margaret Yen, who won Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media at the 51st GRAMMY Awards for her work on the film Juno, took home the Best Music Supervision For Films Budgeted Under $10 Million for her work with Alison Litton on Vox Lux.

Robin Urdang, who was nominated at the 61st GRAMMY Awards for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media for her work on "Call Me By Your Name," won the GMS award Best Music Supervision In A Television Comedy/Musical for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

Another previous GRAMMY nominee is Susan Jacobs, who won Best Music Supervision In A Television Limited Series Or Movie at the GMS ceremony for her work on "Sharp Objects."

While the cast of "Black-ish" brought the show's song "Juneteenth" to life, it was Gabe Hilfer who got the credit for Best Song/Recording Created For Television. (Watch his advice to aspiring music supervisors in the video below.)

Music Supervisors Hilfer And Kent: Be Indispensabl

See the complete list of Guild Of Music Superisors Awards winners at Billboard. 

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