BET Awards 2008 - Photos

Rihanna charmed in a yellow Giambattista Valli floor length gown and Chopard diamonds at BET Awards 2008 at Shrine Auditorium, LA on June 24. Photo Credit: Ken McCoy / PR Photos. Photo Credit: Ken McCoy / PR Photos

June 25, 2008 () - The BET Awards 2008 at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angles, on June 24, saw an impressive star turnout that included Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Alicia Keys, Solange Knowles, Jurmaine Dupri and Chris Brown. The event was hosed by D. L. Hughley.

Soul/gospel icon Al Green was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award and the legendary music producer Quincy Jones was given the Humanitarian Award.

The evening was highlighted by stellar performances by blockbuster artists. Usher gave the opening performance with Love in This Club. Rihanna performed Take a Bow. Other performers included Marvin Sapp, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Lil Kim, En Vogue, Al Green, Jermaine Dupree and Fergie-Nelly.

Rihanna was the sartorial standout in a lemon colored tiered and ruffled Giambattista Valli gown with a deep neckline and spaghetti straps.

The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET.

Here's the complete list of winners from the 2008 BET Awards:

Best Male R&B Artist: Chris Brown
Best Female R&B Artist: Alicia Keys
Best Male Hip-Hop Artist: Kanye West
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist: Missy Elliott
Video of the Year: UGK featuring Outkast, "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)"
Best New Artist: The-Dream
Best Group: UGK
Best Collaboration: Kanye West featuring T-Pain, "Good Life"
Best Video Director: Erykah Badu and Mr. Roboto
Best Gospel Artist: Marvin Sapp
Viewers' Choice Award: Lil Wayne featuring Static, "Lollipop"
BET J Award: Raheem DeVaughn
Best Actor: Denzel Washington
Best Actress: Halle Berry
Female Athlete of the Year: Candace Parker
Male Athlete of the Year: Kobe Bryant

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Asmus Tietchens

   
Artist: Asmus Tietchens

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Beta-Menge

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 7


   
 A-Menge

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Dammerattacke

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 5


   
 Eisgang

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3


   
 Sinkende Schwimmer

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13


   
 Nachtstucke

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 13

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Synthesizer experimentalist and musique concrète producer Asmus Tietchens began recording in the mid-'60s and continued to book 3 decades after that. Born in 1947 and based in Hamburg, Tietchens listened to German radio as a child and heard pioneering electrical transmissions by the likes of Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig. He began recording his own home experiments in 1965 with rough reverb devices and picked up a MiniMoog several years later. Also influenced by unkeyed Kraut-rockers like Cluster and Faust, Tietchens met Okko Bekker and began a partnership that lasted for decades (Bekker has produced well-nigh of Tietchens' go). After Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann heard a tape of his act, he produced Tietchens' debut album Nachtstücke, released in 1980 on Sky Records. His tetrad albums for Sky during the early '80s focused on surprisingly accessible electronic pop, though 1984's Formen Letzter Hausmusik (recorded for Nurse with Wound's United Dairies label) began a time period of more than abstract, concrète recordings that often use taping experiments as well as synthesizers. During the '90s, Tietchens recorded for experimental labels Barooni, Staalplaat and Syrenia, the latter a 1996 collaboration with Vidna Obmana. Since 1990, he has likewise taught legal at a Hamburg university.