Backstage Report: The Brad You Don't Know

By Joal Ryan Feb 11, 2008 4:57 AMTags
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6:45 p.m.:  According to bow-wielding My Grammy Moment winner Ann Marie Calhoun, "every violinist has an inner rock star."

6:46 p.m.:  I'm guessing not every rock star has an inner violinist.

7:10 p.m.:  This is how legends roll: When Chaka Khan walks onto a stage, her hair arrives slightly ahead of the rest of her.

7:11 p.m.:  Khan, who won two R&B Grammys tonight, reminds us she's currently appearing in The Color Purple, the Broadway show, not to mention the shade of her dress.

7:24 p.m.:  Jill Scott, a winner in the Urban/Alternative categories, is asked if she thought  while growing up she'd turn out to be a Grammy-winning Hollywood success. "I thought I was going to be Storm from X-Men," she says.

7:25 p.m.:  Scott, by the way, hasn't given up the superhero dream: "I'm hoping to be Storm for Halloween this year. And why not?"

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7:26 p.m.:  "Paisley...is that his name?" the bubbly Scott asks of the country singer whose name is indeed Paisley—Brad. "I didn't know him before tonight. But, hmmm, he did his thing tonight."

7:40 p.m.:  Speaking of that Paisley fellow...I tell him Jill Scott had never heard of him before tonight. "Tell her I have no idea who Jill Scott is," he says. And yes, he is absolutely kidding.

7:56 p.m.:  West Coast viewers, you'll have to be the judge: There's a debate back here as to whether CBS will clean up the last seconds of Winehouse's dazed Record of the Year acceptance speech for the time zones getting the show on tape delay. It's not that Winehouse swore or did anything so explicitly bleep worthy, it's just that by the time she got around to thanking her husband—"To my Blake, incarcerated"—she was rambling a tad, and the telecast abruptly cut away from the satellite shot.

7:57 p.m.:  By the way, if there were a Grammy for sound bite of the night, Winehouse's "To my Blake, incarcerated" would be the runaway winner.

—Filed by Joal Ryan