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Though they haven’t been directly the late Chris Cornell for a posthumous
nominated, Indian producer Nucleya and release. While the main focus of audiences
singer Rashmeet Kaur are part of the song will be on them, Indians will also be keen
‘Jadi Buti’ from Jamaican outfit Major to follow the performance of Kej and Falu.
Lazer’s album Music Is The Weapon, which Before we look at their albums, let’s see how
is contesting for Best Dance/ Electronic Indian artistes have performed at these
Music Album. From Pakistan, there’s singer awards.
Arooj Aftab, whose Mohabbat is in the Best Over the years, numerous Indian artistes
Global Music Album list. have made it to the nominations list, mainly
Naturally, Indian music fans are hoping in the Global Music (formerly known as
both Kej and Falu will win. Last year World Music) and New Age categories.
too, they had the same expectations from However, the actual winners have been few,
sitar player Anoushka Shankar’s album as they have contested against musicians
Love Letters, nominated for Best Global with completely different styles. It’s always
Music Album, and singer Priya Darshini’s a mystery how the jury chooses between
Periphery, shortlisted in the New Age Indian classical music, European folk and
category. Both of them lost out in the final Brazilian bossa nova.
nod. In 2019, Indian-origin musicians
Faluand Prashant Mistry were nominated
for the Children’s Album and Immersive
Audio Album categories, respectively. Also
nominated was American New Age singer
Snatam Kaur Khalsa, who was exposed to
kirtan at an early age. However, none of
them won.
Billie Eilish has been nominated for 7 Grammy’s in 2022 Shankar & Menuhin bagged the Grammy in 1968; Shan-
Every year, the Grammy Awards draw kar was the first Indian to be given the honour
attention for its major categories – Record The first Indian to win a Grammy was
of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose
Year and Best New Artiste. This is where the collaboration with violinist Yehudi
world’s biggest pop stars compete, and this Menuhin on West Meets East bagged the
year’s nominees include Billie Eilish, Taylor 1968 Grammy for Best Chamber Music
Swift, Lady Gaga, ABBA, Justin Bieber, Jon Performance. Five years later, Ravi Shankar
Batiste, Kanye West and Olivia Rodrigo, was part of George Harrison’s project
besides rock acts AC/ DC, Foo Fighters and Concert For Bangladesh, which won Album
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