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=**♪ Music ♪ **=

Music is very important in today's world. Music is everywhere. We're taught music in school, and some of us participate in the school marching band, orchestra, or theater. We sing church hymns to help build our spiritual being, and patriotic songs to give us a sense of national identity. Music is a universal language, inspires and evokes emotion, enhances learning, sparks imagination, and is a simple pleasure to many. Today there are hundreds of different genres of music, and each different genre is viewed differently by different people, most of the time depending on which part of the country the person is from. This means that all genres of music are important to America, there is not one that stands out more from the next. Here are some grammy award winning songs from the year 2008.

R&B
"Miss Independent" was released September 2nd, 2008 and was in the Hot 100 top ten within 8 weeks. "Miss Independent" is a Grammy Award winning song by American pop/R&B winger Ne-Yo, out of his album __Year of the Gentlemen__. Ne-Yo won two Grammy Awards for "Miss Independent", Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song.

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**Rock**
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes" was released January 15th, 2008, by Bruce Springsteen. It is from his album __Magic__. In 2008 the song won the best rock song award at the Grammys. Bruce Springsteen had also brought home the award for best solo male vocal rock performance. media type="custom" key="4867327"

Country
"Stay" is a Grammy winning song recorded by the American country duo Sugarland. " Stay" has racked up numerous awards for Sugarland and Jennifer Nettles, as a writer. Most notable has been at the 51st Grammy Awards where it won "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" and "Best Country Song". At the 2008 ACM Awards it won two awards for "Song of the Year" and "Single of the Year". At the 2008 CMA Awards it won "Song of the Year" and at the 2008 CMT Music Awards it won "Duo Video of the Year". media type="custom" key="4867311"

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Jazz
"Wouldn't it be Loverly" a song by Cassandra Wilson, won the Grammy for best Jazz vocal. It was released June 10th, 2008. In this album, __Loverly__, Cassandra put a unique spin on many of her older songs. media type="custom" key="4867295"

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All the Music Chosen were 2008 Grammy winners in there category. []