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Members of the audience applaud as singer Whitney Houston, who died Saturday, is shown on a video screen in a 1994 Grammy performance during the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 12.

Slideshow: 2012 Grammy Awards

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Musicians Rihanna, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and more celebrate the year in music and remember Whitney Houston.

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The Grammys got under way on Sunday, with the Recording Academy trying to focus on music's biggest night after of the death of one of music's biggest names — Whitney Houston.

Houston died on the eve of the Grammys at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was preparing to attend a pre-Grammy party. Her death cast a huge shadow over the event.

"We've had a death in our family," said host LL Cool J shortly after Bruce Springsteen opened the show by singing, with obvious poignancy, his new single, "We Take of Our Own."

--Reported by the Associated Press

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