Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti won the award for top female artist, while the best male artist award went to Vasily Petrenko, the Russian conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
While the categories honored at the VMAs still include video of the year, best new artist, best video in the hip-hop, pop or rock genres and many others, the award show has become a celebration of the MTV family of programming and of the youth that it entertains.
That album generated three Top 20 hits and helped Hornsby win the Best New Artist Grammy, and it laid the groundwork for a wildly diverse career encompassing jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, folk, rock and Vaudeville.
He appeared uninvited onstage at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, walked out of the 2004 American Music Awards after losing in the Best New Artist category and reportedly threw a backstage tantrum at the 2007 VMAs because he did not perform on the main stage.
When he was a young man, William Pajaud set out to become the best African-American artist in the country.
Born Clara Ann Fowler, Page was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s and had 19 gold and 14 platinum singles.
Hayes began an incredible run on the awards show circuit with a nomination for best new artist at the ACMs last year.
"I didn't think we were going to win this one, " lead singer Nate Ruess said after the best new artist win.
But it's worth noting that Alabama Shakes was considered SXSW's musical breakout last year, just months before the group won the Best New Artist Grammy.
Fun's anthem We Are Young, featuring Janelle Monae, was named song of the year, with the New York band going on to win the best new artist prize.
Justin Bieber may have lost out at the Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Pop Album but he beat (almost) all comers at the box office.
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Bellows was the most talented and, ultimately, the second-best artist who studied with Robert Henri, at the New York School of Art, early in the twentieth century.
Blunt's album is currently number two in the US and the star was named best pop act and best male solo artist at the Brit Awards.
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It used to be that winning a Grammy was one of the best way for a new artist to enter into the public imagination.
Other winners included classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic, who took the award for breakthrough artist of the year, and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who collected the prize for best international artist.
Or, in the case of Merritt, a self-conscious artist in the best sense, he knows that the accretion of detail over the course of these 13 songs has resulted in a realism that is vivid, hard-headed and never half-hearted.
He won the Country Music Association's best new artist in November, was tied with Swift as the top-nominated country artist at Sunday's Grammy Awards, where he performed, and now takes center stage in Las Vegas.
The best documentary prize sees UK graffiti artist Banksy nominated for his anarchic film Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Michael Westmore, the legendary Hollywood makeup artist best known for his 18 years of Emmy award-winning work across the Star Trek series, as well as for winning the Oscar for the movie Mask, joins the show as a mentor to the contestants.
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She began working with beads and sewing as a child on the La Jolla Luiseno Reservation in California, and at 22, became the youngest artist to earn best in show at New Mexico's Santa Fe Market, the largest crafts fair in Indian Country.
This could be the best autobiography of an artist yet to appear anywhere.
Fellow tenor Rolando Villazon is up for two awards on Thursday in the album of the year and best male artist categories.
Ricky Martin, making his debut performance at the music "Oscars, " won the award for best male artist, beating Robbie Williams, Eminem, Ronan Keating, and Sisqo.
"The Help" won the guild's cast prize last year, while Oscar voters named "The Artist" as best picture.
Fun won Best New Artist and Song of the Year, edging out the Lumineers and a tune by Mr. Sheeran.
Esperanza Spalding, the bass-playing jazz singer whose best new artist win upset Justin Bieber fans two years ago, was present to win two more Grammys in the pre-telecast.
"The Artist" is the best-picture favorite at Sunday's Oscars.
Other winners at the ceremony, hosted by Russell Brand, included Lady Gaga for best new artist, whose live performance culminated in her pretending to stab herself and swinging from the ceiling.
Reggae artist Sean Paul took the best new act award and best video was won by Sigur Ros.
In Zao's case, this phenomenon is perhaps best understood as a self-statement: the artist's insistence on his personal and aesthetic identity in the face of the vagaries of borders and time.
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