Cyndi Lauper, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame this 12 months, joins the quick record of former Grammy winners for finest new artist who made the Rock Corridor. She’s the sixth artist to take each of those honors.
The Grammys and the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as soon as appeared to be working in numerous worlds, with the Grammys, of their early years, favoring conventional pop and jazz, and the Rock Corridor lengthy favoring guitar-based rock. However each organizations have moved to the center lately.
For a few years, simply three artists had achieved each of those feats — a Grammy win for finest new artist and induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame — however within the final 4 years, three extra artists have joined the record.
With the Rock Corridor changing into extra open to a wider vary of sounds, it’s not onerous to image a number of extra previous finest new artist Grammy winners sooner or later being inducted. Mariah Carey has been handed over for induction the final two years working, however it appears probably that she’ll make it sooner or later. Bette Midler, Natalie Cole, Lauryn Hill and Christina Aguilera would additionally appear to have a minimum of an affordable likelihood of creating the Rock Corridor.
Artists first turn out to be eligible for the Rock Corridor 25 years after releasing their first document. So over time the artists who gained finest new artist after 2001 may even turn out to be eligible for the Rock Corridor. Over the subsequent 10 years that would usher in Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, John Legend, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, amongst others.
Whereas we wait to see which ones make it, listed below are the six artists who each gained a Grammy for finest new artist and are within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. The Grammy years proven are the years of the ceremonies at which the awards have been introduced.
Bobby Darin
Finest New Artist: 1959
Rock Corridor: 1990
Notes: Darin was simply 23 when he turned the primary Grammy winner for finest new artist. His glossy “Mack the Knife” topped the Billboard Sizzling 100 for 9 weeks and gained the Grammy for document of the 12 months. Darin, whose different hits ranged from the suave “Past the Sea” to the folk-shaded ballad “If I Had been a Carpenter,” died of coronary heart failure in 1973 at age 37.
The Beatles
Finest New Artist: 1965
Rock Corridor: 1988
Notes: The Grammys have been nonetheless coming to phrases with rock and roll in 1965, however The Beatles had made such an explosive influence there might have been no different selection for finest new artist. The Fab 4 had two different Large 4 nominations that 12 months — “I Need to Maintain Your Hand” for document of the 12 months and “A Laborious Day’s Night time” for tune of the 12 months. The Beatles, after all, grew with nearly each launch. They’re the one act in Grammy historical past to obtain album of the 12 months nominations in 5 consecutive years. They gained in 1968 for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band, and possibly ought to have gained a pair extra for Revolver and Abbey Highway. All 4 Beatles are additionally represented within the Rock Corridor with their solo careers.
The Beatles gained an Oscar for finest unique tune rating in 1971 for Let It Be. The 2 surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, gained Primetime Emmys in 2022 for excellent documentary or nonfiction collection as producers of The Beatles: Get Again.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Finest New Artist: 1970
Rock Corridor: 1997
Notes: Along with CSN profitable finest new artist, Crosby, Stills & Nash was up for album of the 12 months. They have been nominated once more in that class the next 12 months with Déjà vu, this time joined by Neil Younger. All three members of CSN are double inductees within the Rock Corridor. Crosby can also be in with The Byrds, Stills with Buffalo Springfield and Nash with The Hollies.
Carly Simon
Finest New Artist: 1972
Rock Corridor: 2022
Notes: Simon was the primary lady to obtain each of those honors. Simon gained finest new artist on the power of her haunting ballad “That’s the Manner I’ve At all times Heard It Ought to Be,” a prime 10 hit on the Sizzling 100 in 1971. She reached her zenith in 1973 when her single “You’re So Useless” topped the Sizzling 100 (and acquired document and tune of the 12 months nods) and her album No Secrets and techniques topped the Billboard 200.
Simon gained an Oscar for finest unique tune in 1989 for “Let the River Run” from Working Woman.
Cyndi Lauper
Finest New Artist: 1985
Rock Corridor: 2025
Notes: Within the 12 months she gained for finest new artist, Lauper was additionally nominated for album of the 12 months for She’s So Uncommon, document of the 12 months for “Women Simply Need to Have Enjoyable” and tune of the 12 months for “Time After Time.”
Lauper gained a Primetime Emmy as a visitor actress on Mad About You in 1995 and a Tony for finest unique rating for Kinky Boots in 2013. So, she’s three-quarters of the way in which to EGOT standing.
Sheryl Crow
Finest New Artist: 1995
Rock Corridor: 2023
Notes: Crow is the second lady to obtain each of those honors. Within the 12 months she gained for finest new artist, she additionally gained document of the 12 months for her frisky smash “All I Wanna Do.” That tune was additionally nominated for tune of the 12 months. Whereas “All I Wanna Do” was poppy, Crow has additionally had hits that confirmed her rock and nation leanings.
