{"id":1897,"date":"2023-11-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2023\/2023\/11\/12\/grammy-nominations-2024-feature-talent-from-new-york-state\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:30:00","slug":"grammy-nominations-2024-feature-talent-from-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2023\/2023\/11\/12\/grammy-nominations-2024-feature-talent-from-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 GRAMMY Nominations Feature Talent From New York State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2024 GRAMMY Awards announced the nominations for the 66th edition of the event, happening on Feb. 4. The nominees include a wide variety of talent from New York State, like Ice Spice, Lana Del Rey, Nas, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the fastest emerging artists of the 2020s, Bronx native and rapper Ice Spice<\/a> is taking the world by storm with her infectious lyricism and danceable beats. This year she was nominated in four categories including Best New Artist, Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance for her collaboration on Taylor Swift’s<\/a> “Karma” remix, Best Rap Song for her collaboration with Nicki Minaj for the Barbie <\/em>movie with the track “Barbie World,” and Best Song Written for Visual Media, also for “Barbie World.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lana Del Rey<\/a>, a Manhattan native, is nominated for five GRAMMYs this year. These include Best Alternative Music Album for her viral album Did You Know That There\u2019s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd<\/em>, Best Alternative Music Performance for “A&W,” Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance for her collaboration with Jon Batiste on “Candy Necklace,” Song of the Year for “A&W,” and Album of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lana Del Rey, photo by Rebecca Sapp\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Nigro, who has written for artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Conan Gray, and more, who is also from Long Island, is nominated for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Also nominated in that same category is Brooklyn native Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II. Brooklyn native and iconic musician Bebe Rexha<\/a> is nominated in the Best Pop Dance Recording category (a brand new one this year) for her collaboration with David Guetta “One in a Million.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iconic Harlem-born rapper Diddy has gone through many names over the years including Puffy Daddy or P. Diddy, and is raking in a nomination for Best Progressive R&B Album for The Love Album: Off the Grid<\/em>. Speaking of iconic rappers, Crown Heights’ own Nas<\/a> was nominated for Best Rap Album for King\u2019s Disease III<\/em> alongside the likes of Drake and Travis Scott. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nas and Hit-Boy. (Photo by Johnny Nunez\/WireImage).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Iconic singer Mariah Carey<\/a>, who is embarking on a Holiday tour this winter, coming to Madison Square Garden, was nominated for Best Remixed Recording for “Workin\u2019 Hard (Terry Hunter Remix).” Another iconic NYC native Alicia Keys<\/a> is nominated this year for Best Immersive Audio Album for The Diary of Alicia Keys.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iconic producer Rick Rubin from Long Beach, who is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records, received a nomination in the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording category for The Creative Act: A Way of Being<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singer\/songwriter Emily King<\/a>, from NYC, is nominated for Best R&B Album for her record Special Occasion<\/em>. Aja Monet, a contemporary poet, writer, lyricist, and activist from Brooklyn was nominated in the Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for When the Poems Do What They Do<\/em>. Samara Joy<\/a>, who won the 2023 GRAMMY for Best New Artist is nominated in two categories. One category is Best Jazz Performance for “Tight,” and the other is Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for “Lush Life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samara Joy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More GRAMMY nominations include NYC-based jazz duo The Baylor Project for Best Jazz Performance, with Adam Blackstone and Russell Ferrant\u00e9 in “Vulnerable (Live).” Lakecia Benjamin from Washington Heights is also nominated in that category for “Basquiat,” as well as in Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Phoenix <\/em>and Best Instrumental Composition with Angela Davis for “Amerikkan Skin.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pop artists from NYS secured multiple nominations this year. Madison Beer from Jericho has been steadily rising over the past couple of years, receiving her first GRAMMY nomination in the Best Immersive Audio Album category for Silence Between Songs<\/em>. Caroline Polachek from NYC also received her first nomination in Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Desire, I Want to Turn Into You<\/em>. Caroline Rose from Long Island was nominated in the Best Recording Package category for The Art of Forgetting<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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