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Net Happenings Grammy Winner Sabrina Carpenter took voice lessons in Bala Cynwyd

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Grammy Winner Sabrina Carpenter 

Sabrina Carpenter, who grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and took early voice lessons in Bala Cynwyd, won her first Grammy on February 2, 2025, for Best Pop Vocal Album. During her acceptance speech, she thanked her mother for driving her to every voice lesson in Bala Cynwyd, highlighting the community’s role in her musical journey.

Sabrina Carpenter won her first Grammy on February 2, 2025, for Best Pop Vocal Album https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qmmX0sZW7YI

ARTICLE Sabrina Carpenter Shouts Out Main Line In Grammy Acceptance Speech

The Bucks County native Sunday night gave a shout-out to the Main Line while accepting the award for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Bala Cynwyd (/ˌbælə ˈkɪnwʊd/ BAL-ə KIN-wuud) is a community and census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania

SRT Master Class – Allan Slutsky – Standing in the Shadows of Motown another one who grew up in Lower Merion Township. PA

2018
Recorded in the new MIX ROOM at Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA.

Musician, filmmaker, author ALLAN SLUTSKY shares the story behind STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN, a 2002 documentary film that recounts the story of The Funk Brothers, the uncredited and largely unheralded studio musicians who were the house band that Berry Gordy hand-picked in 1959.

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Memory

In an unexpected moment at the 40th Grammys (1998), Aretha Franklin filled in at the last minute and performed Luciano Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma (None Shall Sleep) from Puccini’s opera Turandot — and got a standing ovation. She was introduced by (and later presented an award with) Sting.

 

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ECP NetHappenings Standing In The Shadows of Motown Funk Brothers

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Standing in the Shadows of Mowtown 2xGrammy Winner  Movie Credits 

“Who Are The Funk Brothers?”
“What was the Motown Sound?”

This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.
Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD.
The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year’s Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002.
Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of this site the Educational CyberPlayGround.

THE FUNK BROTHERS
2x GRAMMY WINNERS

12/14/2001 The Music Division of the Library of Congress
Presents the first preview showing of “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” a documentary film as part of “I Hear America Singing,” a major initiative to celebrate this nation’s rich musical heritage.
12/16/02 WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY. — New York Film Critics Circle
10/12/03 Funk Brothers Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2/3/03 45th & 46th ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS
BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK and BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: ” What’s Going On” – The Funk Brothers & Chaka Khan

WATCH Documentary: Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)

The story of the Funk Brothers, the musicians who played on hundreds of MOTOWN hits in the 60s & 70s.

In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit’s thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company – Motown. This documentary tells the unforgettable story of the Funk Brothers.