Shaun Robinson "Give it to Me Right" @ Grammy Foundation Cue the Music

BlackTree TVs Joe Andaloro catches up with journalist Shaun Robinson at the Grammy Foundation Cue the music event.

GThe Grammy Foundation looked back at tunes on the tube Thursday at its 12th annual preservation event "Cue the Music: A Celebration of Music and Television" at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
Hosted by Shaun Robinson of "Access Hollywood," the evening was co-produced by the Paley Center for Media. Archival clips surveyed the intersection of TV and music, from variety shows and sitcoms to music-dedicated programming spanning Leonard Bernstein and MTV. Footage from the foundation's "Living Histories" included recollection by the late Pierre Cossette, longtime Grammys producer, and musician-inventor Les Paul.

Show featured performances by Grammy winners and 2010 nominees: Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz (singing "It's Not Unusual" and "I Got You Babe," TV themes of Tom Jones and Sonny & Cher respectively), Jorge Moreno ("Babalu" from "I Love Lucy"), Solomon Burke ("Woke Up This Morning" from "The Sopranos"), Melanie Fiona ("Rainbow Connection" from "Sesame Street") and the Fray (playing their own "How to Save a Life" and "You Found Me").


Shaun Robinson (born July 12, 1962) is co-anchor and correspondent for the show Access Hollywood, the daily entertainment newsmagazine show. She was also the host of TV One Access, a show on the TV One network produced by Access that brings viewers behind the velvet rope for an inside look at who's who in "Black Hollywood".
Robinson, who was born in Detroit, Michigan, is a graduate of Detroit's famous Cass Technical High School. That school also produced Diana Ross, Lily Tomlin, Kenya Moore, Carole Gist and David Alan Grier. She then went south to Atlanta, GA were she attended and graduated from Spelman College.
Shaun Robinson's career began in Detroit at WGPR-TV62, the first African-American owned television station in the U.S. After that Robinson was a medical reporter and weekend anchor for WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where her series on women and cancer garnered her an Associated Press award. She also served as host of the daily talk show Milwaukee's Talking. Robinson later joined newly formed KEYE-TV in Austin, Texas in 1995, as a reporter and anchor where her series "Profiles in Power", focusing on women who made an impact in Central Texas, earned Robinson an American Women in Radio and Television award.
Before joining Access Hollywood, Robinson was a reporter and anchor for WSVN-TV in Miami, Florida. During her tenure there, Robinson anchored coverage of both the Clinton impeachment hearings and of Hurricane George, which devastated the Florida Keys. She also traveled to Oklahoma to profile survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Robinson has been featured in the fashion pages of In Style magazine, Us Weekly, Ebony, Essence and was named as one of Honey magazine's "Hot 100." Her television and film credits include cameo appearances in Bruce Almighty, Charmed, She Spies, The Parkers, The Proud Family, Half & Half, and Any Day Now.
She also played a small part of the 'Pat O'Brien Voice Mail Scandal' in 2005, when some sexual voicemails from O'Brien were uncovered and posted on many websites. Some of those voice mails were reportedly sent to Robinson's phone. This led to O'Brien's immediate removal from Access Hollywood, and Robinson moved into a more prominent role on the show.

A BlackTree Media Production

Produced by Jamaal Finkley

On Camera Joe Andaloro

Camera(wo)man Golda Smith