Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers Facts

• "Californication" music video gained nomination for Best Art Direction, Video of the Year, Best Group Video and Best Special Effects categories at MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
• "Californication" music video reached 35th rank in VH1's 100 Greatest Videos.
• "Californication" music video was named Best International Video at MuchMusic Video Awards and Best Modern Rock Clip of the Year at Billboard Music Awards in 2000.
• "Give It Away" also listed in Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, VH1's 100 Greatest Videos and 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years.
• "Scar Tissue" music video was nominated for the category of Most Stylish Video at VH1 Fashion Awards in 1999 then of Best Rock Song at Grammy Awards in 2000.
• "Under the Bridge" music video won the category of Viewer's Choice while being nominated for those of Video of the Year and Best Group Video at MTV Video Music Awards in 1992.
• Album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" was placed on the 310th rank in Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time while its successor, "Californication", on the 399th.
• Album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" was recorded at a Hollywood mansion once owned by magician Harry Houdini.
• Album "Californication" was selected as the Must-Have Album at My VH1 Awards held in 2000 while the music video for its single of the same title was labeled Pushing the Envelope Video.
• Became the Grammy Award nominee of Best Hard Rock Vocal Performance category in 1996 through "Blood Sugar Sex Magik."
• Birth Date : 1983
• Earned the Best Album award for "Stadium Arcadium" at the 13th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, held November 2, 2006 in Copenhagen.
• Gained the title Best International Group at the 2000 and 2003 Brit Awards.
• Garnered 3 nominations at California Music Awards also that of Most Stylish Band category at VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards and of Favorite International Group at MuchMusic Video Music Awards in 2000.
• Got nominated in the category of Favorite Alternative Artist at American Music Awards for two consecutive years that were 2000 and 2001. They won the title at the former event.
• Headlined Hullabaloo Festival to raise money for Silverlake Conservatory of Music on May 5, 2007
• Hit song "Give It Away" ranked 25th in Rolling Stone's The 100 Top Music Videos, 36th in MTV's 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made, and 54th in Rolling Stone's also MTV's 100 Greatest Pop Songs.
• Is the headliner of the 2007 Reading and Leeds Festival alongside The Smashing Pumpkins and Razorlight.
• Landed nomination in the category of Favorite Group Rock at Blockbuster Entertainment Awards and of Favorite Band at Kids' Choice Awards by year 2001.
• Michael "Flea" Balzary (bass) gives a unique sound with his bass lines with sounds from funk and blues. A favourite song is one of their older albums and is called "my friends", listen to it and love it!
• Nabbed 3 awards at the 49th annual Grammy Awards; the Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group and Best Rock Song for "Dani California", plus Best Rock Album for "Stadium Arcadium".
• Ranked the 4th "Most Searched Celebrity" on VH1 by June 2006.
• Received Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist nomination at the 1993 American Music Awards and Best Rock Artist nomination at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards.
• Red Hot Chili Peppers or as they often are called "Red Hot" are playing various different music styles. Everything from alternative rock, punk, funk to heavy metal with their own characteristic sound.
• Single "Californication" was nominated in the category of Best Rock Song at the 2001 Grammy Awards.
• Single "Dani California " told about the same girl named Dani from their previous song "By the Way", the one that was also mentioned in song "Californication."
• The music video of "Californication" collected 2 MTV Video Music Awards in 2000 for winning the categories of Best Direction and Best Art Direction.
• The music video of "Give It Away" scored 6 MTV Video Music Award nominations in 1992 and won two of them in the categories of Breakthrough Video and Best Art Direction.
• The music video of "Higher Ground" scored 3 nominations at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards for the categories of Best Group Video, Best Post Modern Video, and Breakthrough Video.
• Their composition of "Under the Bridge" took the 41st rank in VH1's 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years.
• Their LP, "Californication", got nominated in Best Album category at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards and in Best Rock Album category at the 2000 Grammy Awards.
• Their music video of "Warped" got nominated in Best Editing category at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.
• Their song of "Under the Bridge" was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Single category at the 1993 American Music Awards.
• Their third album, "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan", was the only LP made with the four original lineups of Fairfax High School alumni.
• Was given the Video Vanguard Award at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.
• Was named the Best Live Act at MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Rock Artist International at MTV Video Music Awards in 2002.
• Was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group category at Grammy awards held in 1991, 2000, and 2001.
• Won the awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 2006 annual American Music Awards.
• Won twice the category of Best Rock Act at MTV Europe Music Awards, the first being in 2000 while the second in 2002.