The 51st Annual Grammy nominations are in and my favourite artist, Jason Mraz, received 3 nominations!
- Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (I’m Yours)
- Song of the Year (I’m Yours)
- Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.)
I love the fact that he started out with no one really knowing his name and playing in University auditoriums, and has since grown to … no one really knowing his name and still playing in University auditoriums (in between the world stages he’s played on and soon the MGM Grand in Vegas of course)! He stays humble and has tons of fun on the road (check out this Merry Christmas video he made) and it’s great to see that his efforts are being rewarded.
Is your favourite artist on the list of nominees? I guess we’ll have to wait until Feb 8th, 2009 to see who actually takes one home though…
————–Grammy Overview—————-
Artists that are sweeping the board are:
- Coldplay (7 nominations)
- Lil Wayne (8) – Who knew!
- Radiohead (7)
- Jay-Z (6)
- Kanye West (5) – All of these are collaborations with other artists and many fans aren’t too impressed with his new album… hope his ego likes THAT one!
- John Mayer (5) – Including his great duet with Alicia Keys
Other interesting highlights:
- Sara Bareilles is up for 2 awards including Song of the Year for “Love Song“
- M.I.A. is up for Record of the Year
- Will.I.Am is up for Prodcuer of the Year
- Jennifer Hudson is storming past Beyonce (yet again) with 4 nominations (compared to Beyonce’s 1)
- The great songs from August Rush and Juno have been nominated as well!
- Coolest of all in my opinion, Ladysmith Black Mambazo made it! So glad to see these guys on the world stage now.
Related posts: