Colorado Artist Busy Making Grammy Statues

RIDGWAY, Colo. (CBS4)– An artist in Ridgway is busy making the trophies for Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
John Billings is often called the “Grammy Man.” He makes each trophy by hand, one at a time.
John Billings makes Grammys in Ridgway (credit: CBS)
Statues for other award shows are often carved by machine or outsourced overseas.
It takes more than 15 hours to make a single Grammy. It takes Billings about a year to make 600 trophies.
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Billings, 72, grew up in Lo