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Nicki Minaj performs ''Roman Holiday'' at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California

Houston, Adele, Minaj bring bumper audience to Grammys

A bumper 40 million U.S. viewers watched Sunday's Grammy Awards, drawn in by the death of Whitney Houston and the performance comeback of Adele, and kept watching by a controversial religious stage act by rapper Nicki Minaj.