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“The world is a ghetto,” declares legendary funk band War on its 1972 classic of the same name. And in the music world, that “ghetto” for black artists has long been “urban” music departments and genre shackles that have essentially segregated them based on the color of their skin. To make so-called “urban” music was …

When Norah Jones released her blockbuster debut, “Come Away With Me,” in February 2002, it was just five months after 9/11. Now — 18 years, nine Grammys and two kids later — the Brooklyn-based piano woman is back torching the ivories with “Pick Me Up Off the Floor,” her new studio LP, which arrives Friday …

The Grammy Awards will cease using the term “urban” in its awards and language as part of the latest round of annual changes to its rules and guidelines, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday (June 10). Along with the changes, which include updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap fields, Nominations Review …

LOS ANGELES — Grammy-nominated gospel singer Troy Sneed has died from complications with the coronavirus. He was 52. Sneed’s publicist Bill Carpenter said the singer died early Monday at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Sneed earned a Grammy nomination for his work on the Youth For Christ’s 1999 album “Higher.” Sneed traveled throughout the United …

“Prince was in every way incomparable.” So says John Legend, speaking of a real, true legend before launching into “Nothing Compares 2 U” during “Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince,” which airs on CBS at 9 p.m. Tuesday — four years to the day after Prince Rogers Nelson got his purple wings. And …

In January, Alicia Keys hosted the Grammys for the second year in a row — after winning 15 gramophones of her own. And in her new book, “More Myself” (Flatiron Books) out Tuesday, the New York native, 39, reveals her journey to becoming a Grammy goddess. Here are five secrets that she shares in opening …