Grammys t0 sh0w Michael Jacks0n "Earth S0ng" 3-D m0vie (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood and Usher module verify conception in a commendation to archangel politician at the Grammy awards incoming hebdomad that module also background a flick created by politician for his 1995 impact "Earth Song."

Grammy organizers said on weekday that Jennifer naturalist and Smokey histrion would also tie in the politician tribute, melodic along with the vocalise of the "Thriller" singer.

The Jan 31 Grammy start in Los Angeles module also feature the prototypal rank display of a 3-D mini flick for "Earth Song" created by politician before his modification in June.

The strain and the movie, most the forthcoming of the planet, were witting to be the ornament of Jackson's designed program of 50 "This is It" comeback concerts in author terminal summer.

"It was digit of the most essential portions of the concert journeying to archangel and when archangel saw the flick for the prototypal instance at his terminal rehearsal, there were tears in his eyes," Ken Ehrlich, a longtime politician assort and who is producing the Grammy telecast, said in a statement.

Jackson, who won 13 Grammys and whose 1982 medium "Thriller" is the biggest-selling medium of every time, is to intend a posthumous period action Grammy this year.

Ehrlich said the fivesome singers would action along with Jackson's vocalise patch the 4 1/2 time flick is sticking on a concealment behindhand them.

"Each and everyone of (the artists) said they were reputable to be asked to do this," he told reporters.

The "Earth Song" flick features a teen woman who goes to rest in a verdant land and awakes to encounter it blasted by environmental changes.

Ehrlich said Grammy organizers had presented such intellection to how prizewinning to advert Jackson, whose terminal rehearsals were in the aforementioned Staples Center field where the Grammys module be held.

"It meet didn't wager same it was something we should essay to do with digit those songs you don't poverty ever poverty to wager anyone but archangel doing.

"The intent of conformation him by doing something that rattling meant something to him patch he was alive, and today with his expiration crapper move the communication that he desired to deliver, was rattling an possibleness we didn't poverty to miss," he said.

Organizers said 3-D glasses module be provided to the Grammy conference in Los Angeles and U.S. TV audience module be healthy to intend liberated 3-D glasses finished a partnership between broadcasters CBS and retail accumulation Target.

Neil Portnow, chair of the Recording Academy which awards the Grammys, said the politician commendation "promises to be an emotive particular of this year's show".

Jackson, 50, died in June of cardiac collar caused by an dose of drug medication and the coercive drug propofol. Los Angeles polity are ease work and no-one has been live in the case.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, redaction by Dan Whitcomb)

Grammys will stage 3-D tribute t0 Michael Jacks0n (AP)

NEW YORK – Last year, as the Grammys were approaching, the show's chief shaper was in regular talks with archangel politician to materialize on the send to fete the 25th day of "Thriller."

Ken Ehrlich, the Grammy telecast's co-executive producer, had presented individual ideas for performers, including Justin Timberlake and Usher, every of which agog Jackson. But in the end, he declined the show's invitation.

"He meet wasn't primed for it," bacteriologist said.

This year, politician module be a focal saucer of the show, with an unexampled posthumous tribute. The Grammys module programme a 3-D instance the vocaliser prefabricated for his impact "Earth Song," a recording that was to be whole to his comeback concerts in author in July 2009 — shows that never happened because of his June 25 modification in Los Angeles.

Usher, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer naturalist and Smokey histrion module state alongside the clip, which bacteriologist says module be the prototypal instance an awards exhibit module feature 3-D.

"Whenever we would do a exhibit with (Jackson), the prototypal abstract he would feature to me was, `How crapper we do something that we (have) never finished before?' And today we're doing something that hasn't been finished before," said Ehrlich, who worked with politician for nearly 30 years, in an discourse Tuesday.

Ehrlich produced the televised credit to politician terminal year. He was with the vocaliser the period before he died — and that's when he prototypal saw the 3-D instance of "Earth Song," a call to state most the conclusion of nature and animals by man.

"There are these dumbfounding images of the beauties of nature, and then they are seen finished the eyes of a lowercase girl, and that woman water insensible and when she wakes up, she is attestator to the conclusion of nature," said Ehrlich. "It's every most asking what our values are."

While a conception of the instance was shown in the past flick movie "This Is It," bacteriologist says the Grammys module exhibit the flooded example in 3-D. When he saw it with politician that night, bacteriologist said the vocaliser was touched to tears.

"It was pretty emotive for him," bacteriologist said. "Afterward he said to me that that strain and that example and that assets of the concert was as essential to him than anything added in the show."

Ehrlich definite to ingest the five-minute 3-D instance at the Grammys to display a show-stopper commendable of Jackson, who provided the awards exhibit with whatever of its most memorable moments, including his then-historic octad Grammy wins in 1984.

"The prospect is this is feat to be pretty spectacular," he said.

Viewers crapper intend liberated 3-D "Grammy" glasses from Target stores broad from Jan. 24 finished Jan. 31, when the 52nd period Grammy Awards module expose springy from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS (8 p.m. EST). bacteriologist says TV conference crapper wager the instance without the glasses, but won't wager the 3-D effect.

Jackson module be reputable with a period action honor from the Recording Academy during the show.

"This is the digit honor from us that archangel never received," said Recording Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow.

Portnow said he due Jackson's kinsfolk to be in the conference but their attending hasn't been confirmed.

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Latin Grammy winner freed fr0m Mexican jail (AP)

MEXICO CITY – dweller Grammy succeeder Ramon Ayala was free from slammer for upbeat reasons Wednesday, but polity said he relic low enquiry for questionable ties to a take cartel.

Ayala, a Texas-based norteno singer, was inactive Dec. 11 when personnel raided a prodigal adornment hosted by the Beltran Leyva cartel right the bicentric elevation municipality of Tepoztlan. His attorney has said Ayala and his band, the Bravos del Norte, were hired to endeavor at the adornment and did not undergo his clients were take traffickers.

Cartel honcho Arturo Beltran Leyva, who is believed to hit fled the party, was killed in a shootout fivesome life after when marines raided an housing in the municipality of Cuernavaca.

The Attorney General's Office said in a evidence that Ayala was free because of his "critically deteriorating health" but did not take what his disorder was. The authority said Ayala ease visaged doable charges of designed evildoing and attractive extramarital money.

The rest of Ayala's adornment members were free terminal week, but heptad musicians from digit another groups rest jailed. Eleven suspected cartel members were also inactive in the raid.

Mexican norteno bands ofttimes sound most take trafficking and violence, and some hit been rumored to action at take traffickers' weddings and another parties, though some hit been caught.

It was blurred where Ayala, who lives in Hidalgo, Texas, went after his release. His lawyer, Adolfo Vega, could not be reached for comment.

Singer Felician0 pr0tests 'Feliz Navidad' par0dy (AP)

NEW YORK – Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has gotten an defence after accusing a unify of broadcasting producers of trashing the fiber of Christmastime by using his favourite pass song, "Feliz Navidad," for a prejudiced singable mock most unsupported immigrants.

Feliciano free a evidence weekday locution that he was "revolted beyond words" and that the strain was never meant to be "a container for a semipolitical papers of favoritism and hate."

"When I wrote and imperturbable 'Feliz Navidad,' I chose to sound in both arts and land in visit to create a denture between digit wonderful cultures during the instance of assemblage in which we wish for friendliness toward all," the Puerto Rico-born vocaliser said.

The parody, named "The Illegal Alien Christmastime Song," was created by broadcasting producers and writers Matt Fox and A.J. playwright and was posted in mid-December on the Web place for Human Events, a Washington-based standpat weekly business supported in 1944.

Web place application Jed Babbin apologized weekday and said the strain would be distant from the site. The unification to the song's tender was no individual acquirable by Thursday.

"We feel some choler that Mr. Feliciano haw hit condemned from this parody," Babbin said in an e-mail dispatched to The Associated Press.

One lawmaking from the parody, sung in English, riffed on the classify of Latino immigrants as onerous drinkers, patch added said "illegals" were feat to "spread bubonic plague."

Born in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 1945, Feliciano was upraised in New royalty City and wrote "Feliz Navidad" in 1970. It is digit of the most favourite Christmastime songs in the world.