U2 and Alicia Keys dominate awards
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Your support makes all the difference.U2 and Alicia Keys dominated last night's Grammy awards, with four and five awards respectively.
The Irish band, who led the pack by being nominated in eight categories, won best rock album for All That You Can't Leave Behind. Alicia Keys, the only new star to emerge on the popular music scene in 2001, won best rhythm and blues song and best R&B performance for "Fallin'".
It was shaping up as a good night, too, for the soundtrack to the Coen brothers' film O Brother Where Art Thou? The collection of reworked bluegrass standards turned the country music business upside down, and won two early Grammys including best producer for the record's driving force, T Bone Burnett.
British group Coldplay won the alternative music Grammy. Jeff Beck won for rock instrumental. Lucinda Williams, another alternative country voice with blues overtones, took the female vocal prize for "Get Right With God", off her album Essence. Lenny Kravitz, a Grammy favourite, won best male rock vocalist.
Other early winners were Eve and Gwen Stefani, who won the inaugural best rap/ sung collaboration for "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"; Sade, who won best pop vocal album for Lovers Rock; and Linkin Park, who won best hard-rock performance for "Crawling".
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