Choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and flautist Wouter Kellerman are South Africa’s two Grammy Award nominees for 2016‚ the Recording Academy announced this week.
This is the 16th nomination for Ladysmith Black Mambazo‚ a male choral group established in 1960‚ and the second for Kellerman. Ladysmith Black Mambazo have won four other Grammy Awards‚ and Kellerman one. The nominations are for Kellerman’s album Love Language in the best contemporary instrumental album category‚ and for Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s album Music from Inala‚ in the best world music album category.
“If we are honoured with the award‚ when winners are announced on February 7‚ it will mark our fifth Grammy award win. We recently won a Grammy‚ in 2013‚ for our CD Singing For Peace Around the World‚” Ladysmith Black Mambazo said on their website.
“The studio-recorded songs from Music from Inala are songs we performed live across the UK and in Moscow‚ during this year and last year‚ as part of the theatrical production Inala – A Zulu Ballet. On the CD‚ as it was for the live show‚ we are joined by African drums and percussions‚ classical strings and piano.”
Californian hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar led the Grammy nominations‚ scoring 11 nods including album of the year for To Pimp a Butterfly.
He left country-pop superstar Taylor Swift trailing with seven nominations.
Canadian rapper The Weeknd also got seven nominations af- ter a break-out year for his album Beauty Behind the Madness and best-selling single Can’t Feel My Face.
Lamar‚ who won two Grammys last year in the specialist rap category‚ broke into the mainstream this year with nominations for the top prize‚ album of the year. He will also compete for song of the year for Alright‚ best pop duo with Swift for her hit Bad Blood and music video for the same single. To Pimp a Butterfly‚ his third studio album‚ has topped the US and UK music charts with its fusion of funk‚ jazz and poetry.
Lamar will compete in the best album category with Swift’s 1989‚ The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness‚ country singer Chris Stapleton’s Traveller and rock band Alabama Shakes’s Sand & Co-lor. Seven-time Grammy winner Swift’s other nominations this year include record‚ song of the year and best pop solo performance for Blank Space.
Erotic drama Fifty Shades of Grey powered The Weeknd to three of his Grammy nods for the single Earned It‚ which was featured on the movie’s soundtrack. The Canadian has never won a Grammy in his five-year career.
Competing for best new artist are All About the Bass singer Meghan Trainor‚ country artist Sam Hunt‚ UK singer-songwriter James Bay‚ American Tori Kelly and Australian Courtney Barnett. — With Reuters
SA’s double Grammy nod
This is the 16th nomination for Ladysmith Black Mambazo‚ a male choral group established in 1960‚ and the second for Kellerman. Ladysmith Black Mambazo have won four other Grammy Awards‚ and Kellerman one. The nominations are for Kellerman’s album Love Language in the best contemporary instrumental album category‚ and for Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s album Music from Inala‚ in the best world music album category.
“If we are honoured with the award‚ when winners are announced on February 7‚ it will mark our fifth Grammy award win. We recently won a Grammy‚ in 2013‚ for our CD Singing For Peace Around the World‚” Ladysmith Black Mambazo said on their website.
“The studio-recorded songs from Music from Inala are songs we performed live across the UK and in Moscow‚ during this year and last year‚ as part of the theatrical production Inala – A Zulu Ballet. On the CD‚ as it was for the live show‚ we are joined by African drums and percussions‚ classical strings and piano.”
Californian hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar led the Grammy nominations‚ scoring 11 nods including album of the year for To Pimp a Butterfly.
He left country-pop superstar Taylor Swift trailing with seven nominations.
Canadian rapper The Weeknd also got seven nominations af- ter a break-out year for his album Beauty Behind the Madness and best-selling single Can’t Feel My Face.
Lamar‚ who won two Grammys last year in the specialist rap category‚ broke into the mainstream this year with nominations for the top prize‚ album of the year. He will also compete for song of the year for Alright‚ best pop duo with Swift for her hit Bad Blood and music video for the same single. To Pimp a Butterfly‚ his third studio album‚ has topped the US and UK music charts with its fusion of funk‚ jazz and poetry.
Lamar will compete in the best album category with Swift’s 1989‚ The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness‚ country singer Chris Stapleton’s Traveller and rock band Alabama Shakes’s Sand & Co-lor. Seven-time Grammy winner Swift’s other nominations this year include record‚ song of the year and best pop solo performance for Blank Space.
Erotic drama Fifty Shades of Grey powered The Weeknd to three of his Grammy nods for the single Earned It‚ which was featured on the movie’s soundtrack. The Canadian has never won a Grammy in his five-year career.
Competing for best new artist are All About the Bass singer Meghan Trainor‚ country artist Sam Hunt‚ UK singer-songwriter James Bay‚ American Tori Kelly and Australian Courtney Barnett. — With Reuters
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