【LHJ】迈克尔杰克逊1993年格莱美颁奖典礼演讲

【在波姬·小丝和妹妹珍妮·杰克逊的陪伴下，迈克尔出席了1993年的葛莱美颁奖典礼。为了表彰他的杰出成就，葛莱美奖组委会决定特别授予他一项“当代传奇”奖。格莱美传奇奖是为了奖励在音乐界做出突出贡献的人士，格莱美评奖委员会在1990年设立了格莱美传奇奖。格莱美传奇奖是由美国国家录音艺术与科学学会理事会（The Academy’s Nat ional Trustees）颁发的，颁发对象是那些对社会作出重大贡献、在唱片业具有重要影响的个人或组合。】

Janet : Before he won 12 Grammy awards, before he dazzled billions of fans around the world with his amazing talent as a performer, before he impacted on millions of lives with his ongoing humanitarian efforts, before all of that, he was one other thing, he was my brother.

珍妮·杰克逊：在他得到12项葛莱美奖之前，在他出色的舞台表演迷倒数以亿计的歌迷之前，在他为了拯救亿万生命而积极不懈地开展人道主义事业之前，在所有这些之前，他有另外一个角色，他，是我的哥哥。

Hi, I'm Janet Jackson, and I'm pleased to be here tonight to honor the man I love and admire as an artist, and a person. My brother, Michael Jackson.

大家好，我是珍妮·杰克逊。我很荣幸今天能在这里给一个人颁奖，他无论是作为一个艺术家，还是作为一个人来说，都是我所爱戴与崇拜的。他就是我的哥哥，迈克尔·杰克逊。

The Grammy Legend award is given for ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field. But nowhere does it tell you what to do to become a legend. If I were to write a book of instructions using my brother as a guide, it would read something like this:

葛莱美传奇奖（The Grammy Legend Award）一般都颁给当前在唱片界继续做出巨大贡献并且具有很大影响力的艺人。但是人们一般都不知道传奇如何诞生。如果我要写一本介绍这方面的书的话，那么我会用我哥哥的事迹作为序言，于是将这样写道：

[Video retrospective of Michael's career is shown, with Janet's narration in voiceover.]

（开始放迈克尔的事业回顾，珍妮的叙述停止）

How to become a legend. Let's start with the present and work our way backwards. Take a big chance with a live ninety-minute prime time interview with Oprah Winfrey......

怎样成为一个传奇？让我们从现在开始往前回顾。首先看一下在黄金时段播出的，由Oprah Winfrey主持的现场访谈。

Oprah : Join me . . . for the world-wide television event of the year.

（画内音）OprahWinfrey：和我一起……来关注本年度最重大的电视盛事（MJ 专访）。

Janet: Put on a spectacular Superbowl half-time show before the largest audience in TV history. Use your extraordinary popularity, influence, time,

energy, money, and heart to help children heal the world. Create a two and a half hour, standing-room-only concert event from Bucharest, Romania, that gives HBO the highest audience rating in cable history. Release 'Dangerous' and watch it enter the charts at number one and become the world's

biggest-selling album of 1992. Record 'Bad' and watch it become the second biggest-selling album ever. Stun the Motown 25th Anniversary audience with a legendary performance that leaves everyone moonstruck. Record 'Thriller' and watch it become the number one largest-selling album of all time. Bring your enormous talent to the creation of new style videos that are really mini-movies with imaginative stories and mind-blowing effects. Capture an armful of eight Grammys, the most ever won in a single year. Tour the world over, making new friends everywhere you go. Break all existing attendance records, while visiting over thirty countries, many of them more than once, and bring the best in contemporary concert entertainment to over ten million loving fans. Create an international anthem with a superstar cast that becomes the top-selling single of all time. Make a serious effort to have four consecutive number one hits before graduating from grade school. It helps to have brothers who are very musical, and it doesn't hurt to have a little sister who loves you very much. But first and foremost, if you are going to be a true legend, try to be born with a lot of talent and the willingness to take the plunge. So, to sum it up...

（画外音）珍妮·杰克逊：你在超级杯开幕式上，面对着电视史上最多的观众，进行了一场绚烂壮丽的半场表演；用你超凡的声望、影响、时间、精力、金钱和爱心去帮助世界上所有的儿童，来拯救这世界；用二个半小时的时间，在罗马尼亚的布加勒斯特开一场露天演唱会，同时为HBO电视台创下了有线电视台史上的最高收视率记录；新发行的《Dangerous》专辑，瞬间便夺下各榜单的冠军位次，并成为了1992年的最畅销专辑；录制的《Bad》，则又是历史上第二最畅销专辑；在摩顿公司25周年纪念晚会上的令人叹为观止的表演使每个人意犹未尽；录制的《Thriller》成为了历史上最畅销的专辑；你用无尽的天赋来创作新形式的音乐录影，这些短篇电影不但有想象丰富的故事情节，还有冲击人们视觉极限的特技；你一举囊括了8个葛莱美奖项，成为单年度获奖最多的艺人；巡游世界，广交朋友；打破了所有现存的上座率记录，足迹遍及三十多个国家，有些国家还不止去过一次，你把当今最好的演唱会奉献给了世界各地千千万万的歌迷；创作了一首国际公益歌曲（“We Are The World”），并邀请很多巨星参与录制，使其成为了销量最佳的单曲；小学毕业以前，你就通过不懈的努力，使四首金曲接连在排行榜上取得第一；有四个有音乐天赋的哥哥对你来说不无裨益，当然有个爱你的小妹妹也不会有坏的影响；但是最重要的是，如果你真想要成为一代传奇，必须有先天的天赋和后天的努力才行。恩，来总结一下……

[Video shows highlights again in reverse order.]

（录影带又把集锦从后往前放了一遍）

Janet: Now I'm very happy to present the Grammy Legend Award for 1993 to my big brother, Michael Jackson.

珍妮·杰克逊：现在，我很荣幸的把1993年度葛莱美当代传奇奖颁发给我的哥哥，迈克尔·杰克逊。