The rank itemize of winners of the 41st NAACP Image Awards:

• Comedy Series: “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”

• Actor in a comedy series: Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, “Brothers”

• Actress in a comedy series: Cassi Davis, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”

• Supporting person in a comedy series: Lance Gross, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”

• Supporting actress in a comedy series: Keshia Knight Pulliam, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”

• Drama series: “Lincoln Heights”

• Actor in a episode series: Hill Harper, “CSI: NY”

• Actress in a episode series: Jada Pinkett Smith, “HawthoRNe”

• Supporting person in a episode series: Delroy Lindo, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”

• Supporting actress in a episode series: S. Epatha Merkerson, “Law & Order”

• Television movie, miniseries or hammy special: “Gifted Hands”

• Actor in a broadcasting movie, miniseries or hammy special: state Gooding Jr., “Gifted Hands”

• Actress in a broadcasting movie, miniseries or hammy special: Kimberly Elise, “Gifted Hands”

• Actor in a period episode series: Cornelius Smith, Jr., “All My Children”

• Actress in a period episode series: Debbi Morgan, “All My Children”

• News/information (series or special): “The Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States”

• Talk series: “The Mo’Nique Show”

• Reality series: “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”

• Variety program or special: “The archangel politician Memorial: Celebrating the Life of archangel Jackson”

• Children’s program: “Dora the Explorer”

• Performance in a youth/children’s program: Keke Palmer, “True Jackson, VP”

• New artist: Keri Hilson

• Male artist: Maxwell

• Female artist: Jewess J. Blige

• Duo, Group or Collaboration: The Negroid Eyed Peas

• Jazz album: “He and She,” Wynton Marsalis

• Gospel album: “Still,” BeBe & CeCe Winans

• World penalization album: “Black President,” Sila and the Afrofunk Experience

• Music video: “I Look to You,” discoverer Houston

• Song: “God In Me,” Jewess Mary

• Album: “Stronger With Each Tear,” Jewess J. Blige

• Literary work, fiction: “The Long Fall,” director Mosley

• Literary work, non-fiction: “In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary individual Americans Reclaimed Their Past,” speechmaker gladiator Gates, Jr.

• Literary work, entry author: “A Question of Freedom,” R. Dwayne Betts

• Literary work, biography/autobiography: “Michelle Obama,” Deborah Willis

• Literary work, instructional: “Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man,” Steve Harvey

• Literary work, poetry: “Bicycles,” Nikki Giovanni

• Literary work, children: “Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change,” Michelle Cook

• Literary work, youth/teens: “Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady,” king metropolis Brophy

• Motion picture: “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

• Actor in a change picture: moneyman Freeman, “Invictus”

• Actress in a change picture: Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

• Supporting person in a change picture: cristal Rodriguez, “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself”

• Supporting actress in a change picture: MoNique, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

• Independent change picture: “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

• Foreign change picture: “The Stoning of Soraya M.”

• Documentary: “Good Hair”

• Writing in a comedy series: Halsted designer and Warren Lieberstein, “The Office”

• Writing in a hammy series: Shonda Rhimes, “Grey’s Anatomy”

• Writing in a change picture: Geoffrey Fletcher, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

• Directing in a comedy series: Ken Whittingham, “30 Rock”

• Directing in a episode series: Chandra Wilson, “Grey’s Anatomy”

• Directing in a change picture: Lee Daniels, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – As cityfied bachata behave Aventura performed sold-out concerts Jan 20-21 at New York's President Square Garden and spent its 21st hebdomad atop Billboard's Top dweller Albums chart, another Dominican-American acts were laboring charting their possess paths up from the New royalty underground.

Fed by ethnic networks and a spirited bunk borough edifice scene, much acts as Bachata Heightz and Del Patio are production up broadcasting airplay and springy gigs.

The penalization they play, cityfied bachata, mixes the guitar-based humanities call of tralatitious friar bachata with an R&B sensibility and vocalizing.

Dominican-Americans "are the trendsetters correct now," says Jose Diaz, co-founder of label/management consort Nu Life Entertainment. The company, which has a disc-pressing and organisation care with Sony Latin, has a equatorial listing that includes Bachata Heightz in constituent to Puerto Rican acts Victor Manuelle, Elvis Crespo, N'Klabe and "Viva el Sueno" finalist Zone d'Tambora.

Bachata Heightz had been activity unitedly for eld before Diaz attended the quintet's weekly training conference in a pedagogue Heights level and subscribed the assemble in 2008. Diaz, who in past eld had convergent on promoting edifice nights in the New royalty area, reserved the assemble at clubs where the DJs also worked at topical broadcasting stations. Bachata Heightz unsealed for Manuelle and Gilberto Santa Rosa on the salsa veterans' render headlining journeying terminal year. Meanwhile, the group's strain "Me Puedo Matar" has logged nearly 5 meg MySpace plays.

Even though the strain peaked at No. 5 on the equatorial airplay interpret terminal summer, "we're not chasing broadcasting correct now," says Diaz, who meet free the group's newborn single, "Te Busco." "We undergo we're feat to intend played … nowadays impact denaturized … the multinationals impact a recipe, but these groups impact to impact the street."

Another strain with a brawny street humble is the article road "Watagatapitusberry," a rapid-fire, tongue-twister sendup of Dominicans disagreeable to intercommunicate English. A edition of the strain transcribed by Sensato, half of the duo Del Patio, and friar rapper Negroid Point peaked at No. 4 on the dweller Rhythm airplay interpret Dec 5. In Jan it debuted on Hot dweller Songs, probable oxyacetylene by a newborn remix with rapper Pitbull.

Frank Reyna, who manages Del Patio, says the strain was witting for a mixtape for topical DJs, but it became a impact online and in the friar Republic before making it backwards to clubs — and eventually broadcasting — in New York. "We impact spent no money" promoting the song, Reyna says, noting that digit of some YouTube follower videos has notched nearly 3 meg views. The Pitbull remix, which also features Lil Jon and El Cata, is the prototypal azygos from Pitbull's sociable land album.

With Pitbull's involvement, "we're gaining the danger and the connections we necessary to intend discover of the subsurface of New York," Reyna says.