You’ve all seen the grand and gorgeous Grammy Awards held each year to commemorate and celebrate great performances by actors, singers, dancers, and the like. This year, we celebrate the 58th Grammy Awards. But when did it actually start?
The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Two separate ceremonies were held simultaneously on the same day; the first in Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills California, and the second in the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Count Basie, Domenico Modugno, Henry Mancini, Ella Fitzgerald and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. each won 2 awards.
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