DORIS DAY RECEIVES THE GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD THIS YEAR!!
Recipients of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award were announced by The Recording Academy:
Burt Bacharach, The Band, Cab Calloway, Doris Day, Itzhak Perlman, Max Roach and Earl Scruggs will receive The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. A special invitation-only ceremony will be held during GRAMMY Week on Saturday, Feb. 9, and a formal acknowledgment will be made during the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast, which will be held at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008, and broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.
"This year's recipients are a prestigious group of diverse and influential creators who have crafted or contributed to some of the most distinctive recordings in music history," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "These profoundly inspiring figures are being honored as legendary performers, creative architects and technical visionaries. Their outstanding accomplishments and passion for their craft have created a timeless legacy."
DORIS DAY — Considered to be one of the hottest, sultriest swing band vocalists of the 1940s, Doris Day has recorded more than 76 chart-topping singles including "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," "Everybody Loves A Lover" and "Sentimental Journey," which is one of the most impressive songs in the fields of swing and popular jazz. Aside from Day's commanding and beautiful voice, her success was also based on her ability to sing a song that projected a unique intimacy with not only a crowd or a mass audience but also with each individual listener.
