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The same year, Presley became the first rock and roll singer to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (then known as the Bing Crosby Award) by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Grammy Award organization.
In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this type of music for a multi-racial audience, and it is Freed who is credited with coining the phrase rock and roll to describe the rollicking R&B music that he brought to the airwaves.he famous disc jockey Alan Freed began calling this music rock 'n' roll-- an expression that had been used in blues music for years as a euphemism for sexual intercourse; he used it to name this new genre.