Smith missed out on a sweep of the four top Grammy categories in which he was nominated — record, album, song and new artist — when Los Angeles maverick rock singer-songwriter-producer Beck scored an upset with his widely lauded "Morning Phase" album.
So Mr. Greene held off on granting the award until he and leaders of American Indian music could persuade enough members to join the recording academy and start a screening committee to nominate records.
In its recorded form, "Royals" was nominated as record of the year and in the pop solo performance category; Lorde's album "Pure Heroine" earned a nod as pop vocal album too.
Though his death shocked the world, he apparently planned out his final work as a parting gift, with its packaging littered with hidden surprises that are revealed through black light or exposure to sunlight (the artwork is nominated for recording package). .
Her most recent hit was her 1986 duet "Take Me Home Tonight," a Grammy-nominated recording with Eddie Money.
EVEN if the program works well, its abilities may leave many professionals cold, including Adrian Carr, a Grammy-nominated recording engineer and composer in Montreal.
Also in Grantland, Jake Austen talks to several members of the iconic 1985 Chicago Bears, not about football, but about making of their Grammy-nominated recording, "The Super Bowl Shuffle".
Her searing cover of "Howlin' for My Darlin' " appeared on "A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf," a 1998 Grammy-nominated recording that also featured tracks by Lucinda Williams and Ronnie Hawkins.
In recent years this superb chorus has released a reference-quality set of Haydn's masses on the Naxos label, made a Grammy-nominated recording of Handel's oratorio "Israel in Egypt" for Musica Omnia, and sung with the Rolling Stones in Brooklyn.
For an engrossing non-Wagnerian sample of Mr. Andersen's vocal and interpretive gifts, seek out the recent Grammy-nominated recording of Franz Schmidt's oratorio "The Book With Seven Seals," on EMI, in which he invests the awesome text of St. John the Divine with apocalyptic dread and wonder.
She's also performed on Broadway, is a highly-accomplished opera singer, author, and Grammy-nominated recording artist, among many other accolades.
