Bay Area Grammy Nominees: Sheila E., Ambrose Akinmusire, Green Day, More:- Beyoncé, who is the most successful artist in the history of the Grammy Awards, received an impressive eleven nominations.
Bay Area Grammy Nominees: Sheila E., Ambrose Akinmusire, Green Day, More
Which led to the announcement of the nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards by the Recording Academy on Friday.
Green Day and Kehlani each received three nominations, and Sheila E., Taj Mahal, and the San Francisco Symphony each received two nominations.
Among the Bay Area artists who were successful in obtaining nominations spanning all 94 categories, Green Day and Kehlani were among the most successful.
Announcing the winners of the 67th Grammy Awards will take place on February 2, 2025, both prior to and during the ceremony that will be broadcast on television.
Green Day, a pop-punk band that has won five Grammys and was recently recognized in Pinole with a key to the city, received three nominations in the rock genre categories after their most recent two albums were not given enough consideration.
The band’s fourteenth studio album, titled Saviors, was recognized with a nomination for the title of Best Rock Album.
Two of the band’s singles, “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Dilemma,” were nominated for awards in the categories of Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. This brings the band’s total number of nominations to an astounding twenty.
Over the course of the Sol Blume Music festival, which took place at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California on August 20, 2023, Kehlani gave a performance.
Submitted by Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage Additionally, Kehlani, who hails from Oakland and continues to enthusiastically represent the Bay Area despite having relocated to Los Angeles, was nominated for three awards.
There was a lot of success for the R&B artist with her most recent studio album, which is titled Crash. Her homecoming event at Chase Center, which took place last week, had unexpected guests by LaRussell, Mistah F.A.B.,
Kamaiyah. A nomination was received for the album in the area of Best Progressive R&B Album, while the lead single, “After Hours,” was selected for the category of Best R&B Song within the album.
Kehlani was also awarded a slot in the category for Best Melodic Rap Performance due to her featured role in the remixed version of the song “KEHLANI,” which was originally performed by the British rapper Jordan Adetunji and was dedicated to the star itself.
Yes, you read it correctly; Kehlani was nominated for a song that was specifically named after her. Another musician from Oakland who has had several nominations is Sheila E.,
Who, in 2021, was presented with the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award alongside her father, Pete Escovedo, who is a percussionist.
This year, her album Bailar has been nominated for the title of Best Tropical Latin Album, and “Bemba Colorá,” which she collaborated on with Gloria Estefan and Mimy Succar, has been selected as the winner of the category of Best Global Music Performance.
Metallica, a band based in San Francisco, was selected for yet another nomination in the category of Best Metal Performance with their song “Screaming Suicide.” Back in the beginning of this year, Metallica received their tenth Grammy Award, adding to their ever-growing list of achievements.
In a contemporary theater with purple lighting, a jazz quintet brings their performance to the stage.
On March 1, 2020, Taj Mahal will do a performance at the Robert N. Miner Auditorium stage located within the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, California. It is Bill Evans.
A nomination for the Taj Mahal Sextet’s album, Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa, was received in the category of Best Traditional Blues Album. Taj Mahal, a blues musician who resides in Berkeley, became the recipient of this award.
As a result of his featured role in “Nothing in Rambling” by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mahal was also nominated for the award of Best American Roots Performance. This brings his overall number of nominations and wins for his career to seventeen.
Julian Lage, a jazz guitarist who was born and raised in Santa Rosa, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his album Speak to Me. This is his seventh nomination, and it has the potential to become his very first Grammy Award.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, the conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, received two nominations for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Opera performance for his performance of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” and Kaija Saariaho’s “Adriana Mater,” respectively.
Both of these recordings were performed by the San Francisco Symphony. With regard to the recording, Saariaho, who passed away the previous year, was also considered for a nomination in the area of Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
The world-famous composer and conductor John Adams, who has lived in Berkeley for as long as anyone can remember, is also included in the category of Best Opera Recording.
Adams was fortunate enough to receive his fifteenth nomination for his composition Girls of the Golden West, which was recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under his direction.
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