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Winnipeg Free Press
Cross dominates Grammy Awards with four prizes
Thursday, February 26, 1981

NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Cross, a 29-year-old pop-rock singer, gui t a r i st and songwriter who recorded his f i r st a l b um last year, domina t ed the 23rd a n n u al
G r a m my A w a r ds last n i g h t— w i n n i ng t he t op four prizes: best new a r t i s t, record, song and a l b um of the year.

And Anne Mu r r a y, with her single, Could I Have This Dance?, won the awa rd as best fema le country vocal performer. She won a Juno award in the same category in Toronto Feb. 5.
The chubby, goateed Cross, whose r e al n a me is C h r i s t o p h er Ge p p e r t, bounded repeatedly to the stage of Ma n h a t t a n ‘s Radio City Musical Ha ll to accept his awards — and also sang his hit single, Sailing — as the record indus t ry honored its best at the star-studded, na t iona l ly- t e l evi s ed ceremony.
Cross, who was bom in San An t o n i o, Tex., where his f a t h er is a doctor and his mother a nurse, recorded his debut a l b u m, Chr i s topher Cross, w i th a sixman band that also bears his name. Read More