Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli at 2008 Grammy Awards.
Photo from Entertainment Weekly

The 2008 Grammy Awards saw the highly anticipated duet of The Prayer between Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli. It was a very tender performance which Andrea dedicated to the late Luciano Pavarotti. Thumbs up to piano introduction played by Josh!

Update: Unfortunately, the link to the video of their performance is no longer available. Darn!

After the Grammys, YoungHollywood.com interviewed Josh at the Warner Music After Party.

~Thanks to Cheri Levesque of YoungHollywood.com for the heads up!

Josh Groban at the 2008
Sundance Film Festival.
Photo from Entertainment Weekly

Josh recently appeared on Where Music Meets Film at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. How I love the film awards festival! Here, Josh discusses (you guessed it) film and music.

He also performs a very special (more uptempo) arrangement of Awake.

Awake is a bonus song available only on the Internet Fan Edition. It’s really strange that the title song of the album is not more widely available on the regular edition.

Josh and managment, if you’re reading this, please stop releasing so many versions of a single album. It makes purchasing the album so difficult, especially for fans on a budget. And I know how you love us Grobanites for still buying your albums, as you discussed in this brilliant heartfelt interview with imédias, right?

Coming up

Sunday, 10 Feb - For US fans, this Sunday, you’ll get to see Josh on TV three times in one day.

• 2 pm, Channel Fuse-56 - Where Music Meets Film @ 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Josh comes up 50 minutes into the program.
• 8 pm, Channel CBS-2 - Grammy Awards. Be sure to tune in as he duets with Andrea Bocelli for the first time ever. They’re singing The Prayer.
• 9 pm, Channel Sundance-192 - Live From Abbey Road. He appears 15 minutes into the show.

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You might already have this date marked in your diary: 27 February. Yes, it’s Josh Groban’s 27th birthday. This year, the Grobanites have organized Raise 27, a fan birthday project aimed at raising $27,000 by 27 February 2008. The money will be donated to Josh Groban Foundation/Grobanites for Charity in honor of his 27th birthday. Start donating at Grobanites for Charity today!