Grammys: Cyndi Lauper, John Legend and More Honor Producer Ken Ehrlich

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In a farewell tribute to longtime Grammys executive producer Ken Ehrlich, Camila Cabello, Gary Clark Jr., John Legend and more joined together to perform “I Sing the Body Electric” from the 1980 Academy Award-winning film Fame at the 62nd annual ceremony

at the Grammy Museum earlier this month, Ehrlich said the controversy was overblown.

"The whole thing got out of control. From the beginning, I was a champion of hers," Ehrlich said of the singer, who performed aThe performance also honored Ehrlich and the Recording Academy’s commitment to music education. Young musicians, singers and dancers — many of whom hailed from Allen’s Los Angeles-based Dance Academy — also took the stage for the performance Sunday night.

“It was pretty plain to me that, you know, rather than to put together a montage of great Grammy moments, which everybody has seen now a lot of times, … that this was a fresh way of doing something that really represented what I’ve tried to do with the Grammys,” Ehrlich told the Associated Press. “And it’s consistent with what the mission of the Academy is with regard to music education and music of the schools.”, also choreographed the performance.

“I Sing the Body Electric” served as the closing song in the 1980 film. The song was written by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dean Pitchford and composer Michael Gore, who won the Academy Award for best original score for his work on“It’s the standard of maybe one of the best pieces of film music that I’ve ever seen,” Ehrlich said.

There were a number of other tributes throughout the night, including one honoring late basketball great

 

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