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Esperanza Spalding poses backstage with the award for best new artist at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 13, 2011, in Los Angeles.
American jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding won best new artist Grammy at the music industry's annual awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The 26-year-old, an African-American from the western US state of Oregon, is the first jazz artist to win the best newcomer award at the Grammys in 35 years, organizers said.
She has sung twice at the White House, and President Barack Obama named her as one his favorite musicians. She performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in 2009, at Obama's request.
Spalding, who was the youngest faculty member in the history of the Berklee College of music, has collaborated with Stevie Wonder and Prince.
Other nominees for best newcomer Grammy were Canadian teen idol Bieber, quirky British singer Florence Welch, country-tinged Brits Mumford and Son, and Drake. - Sapa-AP
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