lack Velvet won Alannah the 1990 Grammy for best female rock vocalist. Original Canadian release in the fall of 1989 met with #1 response in Quebec, preferring BV to her first Love Is single in Western Canada. BV was released to US radio in the fall of 1990, the single went to number 1 for 2 weeks with a bullet on Billboard's Top 40 Chart by April,1990. And thus her star took flight