Photos: Grammy awards red carpet plus full list of winners

Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Taylor Swift, pregnant Ciara and Amber Rose looking fabulous at last night's Grammy Awards which held at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. Continue to see more red carpet photos and full list of winners...

17-year-old Lorde won Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year for Royals. ...

Beyonce

 Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

 Paris Hilton

Rita Ora

Katy Perry

 Madonna and son

 Paula Patton

 Ariana Grande

Ciara

 Pink

 

 Amber Rose

 John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

Kelly Osbourne

 Guiliana Rancic, Colbie Callat, and Bonnie Mckee

 Fantasia, Tamar Braxton and Faith Evans

Full list of winners 

Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: "Get Lucky," Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nyle Rodgers

Best Rock Song: "Cut Me Some Slack," Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear

Best Pop Solo Performance: "Royals," Lorde

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Holy Grail," Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake

Best Country Album: Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves

Song of the Year: "Royals," Lorde

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Stepping Out, Herb Albert

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: To Be Loved, Michael Buble

Best Reggae Album: Ziggy Marley In Concert, Ziggy Marley

Best Spoken Word Album: America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't, Stephen Colbert

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Summertime Sadness, Cedric Gervais, Remixer (Lana Del Rey)

Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: "Break Every Chain [Live]", Tasha Cobbs

Best Gospel Song: "If He Did It Before... Same God [Live]", Tye Tribbett

Follow her arrow: Kacey Musgraves also won two gongs

Best Gospel Album: Greater Than [Live], Tye Tribbet,

Best Latin Pop Album: Vida, Draco Rosa,

Best Song Written For Visual Media:  "Skyfall," Thomas Newman

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Brady Wells and Roomful of Teeth, "Roomful of Teeth"

Best New Age Album: Love's River, Laura Sullivan

Best Jazz Vocal Album:  Liquid Spirit, Gregory Porter,

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue, Terri Lyne Carrington

Best Latin Jazz Album: Song For Maura, Paquito D'Rivera And Trio Corrente

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: Sound City: Real To Reel, Butch Vig (Compilation Producer)

Best Musical Theater Album: Kinky Boots, Cyndi Lauper

Best Americana Album: Old Yellow Moon, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell

Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picuture of You, Guy Clark

Best Dance Recording: "Clarity," Zedd ft. Foxes

Best Dance/Electronica Album: Random Access Memories, Daft Punk

Best Comedy Album: Calm Down Gurrl, Kathy Griffin

Best Rap Performance: "Thift Shop," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rap Song: "Thift Shop," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rap Album: "The Heist," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best R&B Performance:  "Something," Snarky Puppy With Lalah Hathaway

Best Traditional R&B Performance: "Please Come Home," Gary Clark Jr.

Best R&B Song: "Pusher Love Girl," Justin Timberlake

Best Urban Contemporary Album: Unapologetic, Rihanna

Best R&B Album: Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys

Best Blues Album: Get Up!, Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite

Best Music Film: Live Kisses, Paul McCartney

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: "From This Valley," The Civil Wars

Best Country Solo Performance: "Wagon Wheel," Darius Rucker

Best Country Song: "Merry Go Round," Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne

Best Rock Performance: "Radioactive," Imagine Dragons

Best Alternative Music Album: Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams

Best Metal Performance: "God Is Dead," Black Sabbath

Best Rock Album: Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin

What i told my players at half time- Keshi

The Big Boss in the post-match conference attended by PREMIUM TIMES said he told his players that they were simply not playing their game.

“What I told them at half time was that we were not the one playing like that, I told them they were giving too much respect to the Moroccans.

Even though they are a good team, they don’t deserve such from us, we are supposed to take our game to them and that is what they did in the second half.

I told them I want to see the same character or more like they displayed in the game against Bafana Bafana and they did that,” he said.

Also, the captain of the Eagles, Chigozie Agbim, said his colleagues rightly admitted they were only a shadow of themselves in the first half and made the decision to right their wrongs in the second half.

The goalkeeper also stated the players’ resolve not to return to Nigeria but wait for the final of the tournament and possibly lift the trophy.

Keshi is not new to masterminding comebacks as he similarly did with the Eagles of Mali in 2010 to come back from four goals down to tie Angola 4-4 in an Africa Nations Cup match.

“Yes I remember the Mali game but this one today is something else,” the Eagles coach said.

Photos: See the cleavage revealing gown Rihanna wore to the pre-Grammy gala, cute?

BadGal Riri wore this stunning lemon yellow dress with plunging neckline and thigh high slit to the pre-Grammy Gala that held yesterday at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. You like?

Rihanna is nominated in two categories at the Grammys; Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Stay with Mikky Ekko and Best Urban Contemporary Album for her album 'Unapologetic'. The Grammys will hold tomorrow January 26th in LA. More pics when you continue...

 

Fu*ck You Brother, You Are A Mother Fu.cker”- Tonto Dikeh Insults Comedian AY

Ay’s jokes of late seems to be getting on the nerves of some celebrities. First it was Jim Iyke now its the controversial Tonto. The recent issue he has with tonto according to a source happened as a result of a link he posted on twitter which she “Tonto” saw and immediately fired back at him on Twitter.

He has deleted the link as of now.

whatever the link was must have been serious because Tonto and Ay seem to be kinda close.

See tweets below

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PHOTOS: JAY Z, RIHANNA, J. COLE, WILLOW SMITH & MORE ATTEND ROC NATION’S PRE-GRAMMY BRUNCH

With Grammy week in full swing, the A-list came together on Saturday to celebrate Roc Nation’s success with its annual pre-Grammy brunch. And it was all for a good cause, too! This year the house Jay Z built also partnered up with MAC Cosmetics to donate money to the MAC AIDS Fund. RocNation’s artists Wale, J. Cole, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Calvin Harris and Willow Smith dropped in, as well as Ne-Yo, T.I. and Kevin Hart. Catch a few flicks!

This is Roc Nation…pledge your allegiance!

Collabo Season | KCee and Nicki Minaj, DavidO and Mafikizolo

Expect something new from Nicki Minaj and Kcee. Don’t imagine how it will sound like trust me it will be good music.

Kcee and Harry song aka Mr Songz  will be at the 56th Grammys award this Sunday January 26th, 2014. Our source confirmed to us that Kcee is set to release a new single featuring Nicki Minaj.  His main purpose to attend the awards is to finalize recording with her.

We heard the sum of 400,000 dollars (68 million naira) was paid to have Nicki on the song.

Hmnnn!! The song has to be better than his hit single – Limpopo.

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On the other hand, we have some Naija to SA collabo coming up soon too. Davido  and Mafikizolo (Theo and Nahla) are working on a  new song for their fans.

We got pictures of Davido, Oskido and Mafikizolo cooking up some beats in the studio. The song should drop anytime soon.

British Pensioner Sentenced To Death For Blasphemy In Pakistan Despite Mental Illness

A 65-year-old British man was sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy — even though he is mentally ill.

Mohammed Asghar has spent four years in jail after he was arrested after writing letters to people claiming he was a prophet.

But a medical panel throughout a defence argument Asghar – believed to have family in Scotland – he had a history of mental illness.

Even his lawyer, Sara Bilal was forcibly removed from the case by the judge and proceedings were carried out behind closed doors.

But she intends to appeal the verdict, delivered just late on Thursday, only hours before Friday prayer day.

Some observers say the capital punishment order is unlikely to be carried out because the country has had a moratorium on the death penalty since 2008.

Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws carry a potential death sentence for anyone deemed to have insulted Islam.

But several recent cases have prompted international concern, and critics argue the blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores and that members of minority groups are also unfairly targeted.

In 2012 the arrest of a young Christian girl, Rimsha, on blasphemy charges provoked international outrage. After being detained in a high security prison for several weeks she was eventually released and her family subsequently fled to Canada.

Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97% of the population are Muslim.

Muslims constitute a majority of those prosecuted, followed by the minority Ahmadi community.

Photo: Rapper, Snoop Dogg’s intense smoking attracts firefighters to his hotel room in Australia (PHOTO)

Popular American rapper, Snoop Dogg announced his presence at a hotel in Australia in a very weird way.

According to celebrity news website, TMZ , the rapper took the word “smoking like a chimney” to a whole new level on Thursday night, as smoke filled his room.

The intense smoke was said to have triggered a fire alarm in the hotel room as firefighters ran into the rapper’s room thinking there was a fire outbreak.

This was how TMZ reported the incident:

Snoop Dogg took the meaning of hotbox to a whole new level Thursday night … when he smoked out his Australian hotel room so intensely, firefighters RACED to the scene thinking there was a real fire! 

Here’s what went down … cops say “smoke from an unidentified source” triggered a fire alarm around 10am … and firefighters who happened to be in the hotel rushed up to the scene to investigate the situation. 

But when they got to the room, the firefighters quickly realized there was no fire … just a ton of smoke (duh, it’s Snoop) … though officials won’t say if weed was involved. 

Once the situation calmed down, Snoop actually took some Instagram pics with the responders … and talked about how he always wanted to be a firefighter. 

He does enjoy getting blazed.

Juan Mata Completes Manchester United Move

Spanish midfielder, Juan Mata has finally joined English club Manchester United after he agreed personal terms with the English Premier League club.
The Spaniard leaves Stamford Bridge after joining in the summer of 2011. Manchester United had to part with about £37m for the services of the midfielder

HOT PHOTOS: Check Out Pictures From Nicki Minaj's New ESPN Photo-shoot

ESPN released their February Super Bowl XLVIII preview and “Music Issue" earlier this week, the magazine cover featured Nicki Minaj matched up with Kobe Bryant.

Today, she posted the cover photo on her Instagram, with a caption “When retouching goes wrong!”, which hinted she may not like it much.

She also shared a few of her own photos from the shoot with the caption: "I love my personal unretouched photos where my forehead doesn’t mysteriously grow in length".

Even though Nicki wasn't happy with the pictures the magazine chose to use, she however showed appreciation for the contract by posting the caption;

"So honored to be a part of this with Kobe. Had a blast

Check out her choice shots from the video shoots below;