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Los Angeles:
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar and Amy director Asif Kapadia are among the Indian origin names featuring in the nominees list at the 58th Grammy awards, which was announced in Los Angeles on December 7.
The 34-year-old musician, has been nominated in the Best World Music Album category for her solo album Home, which is a pure Indian classical album that explores the meditative and virtuosic qualities of Indian raga.
Anoushka shared this in a Facebook post:
Home features two ragas, one of which is a creation of her late father Ravi Shankar. This is her fifth nomination in the same category.
Indo-British director Asif Kapadia features in the nominees list of Best Music Film category for Amy, his documentary on late singer Amy Winehouse. Indian origin usician Jeff Bhasker features in the top category, Record of the Year, for Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk. His other nomination is in the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category.
The Afro Latin Jazz Suite in the Best Instrumental Composition category, has garnered a nod to Indian origin Rudresh Mahanthappa. He and fellow artistes will be competing with another talent of Indian origin, composer David Balkrishnan (Confetti Man) in the same section.
In the key categories, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and the Weekend have earned top nominations including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. (Also Read: Grammys 2016: Kendrick Lamar Storms Nominations, Taylor Swift Trails)
Mr Lamar is nominated 11 times in nine categories while the Weeknd is up for seven Grammys so is popstar Taylor. Drake is up for five nods, Alabama Shakes and Florence and the Machine have four nominations. Kanye West, D'Angelo, and Diplo are up for three nods each.
Record of the Year nominees are D'Angelo's Really Love, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud, Taylor Swift's Blank Space, and the Weeknd's Can't Feel My Face.
Album of the Year nominees are Alabama Shakes' Sound & Color, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly, Traveller by Chris Stapleton, 1989 by Taylor Swift; Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd.
Song of the year (songwriter's award) nominations include Alright; Blank Space, Girl Crush, See You Again and Thinking Out Loud
Best new artist nominees are Courtney Barnett, James Bay, Sam Hunt, Tori Kelly, Meghan Trainor.
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 15, 2016.
The 34-year-old musician, has been nominated in the Best World Music Album category for her solo album Home, which is a pure Indian classical album that explores the meditative and virtuosic qualities of Indian raga.
Anoushka shared this in a Facebook post:
Overwhelmed to have just received my fifth Grammy nomination!!! Grateful to have a traditional album like Home be...
Posted by Anoushka Shankar on Monday, 7 December 2015
Indo-British director Asif Kapadia features in the nominees list of Best Music Film category for Amy, his documentary on late singer Amy Winehouse. Indian origin usician Jeff Bhasker features in the top category, Record of the Year, for Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk. His other nomination is in the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category.
The Afro Latin Jazz Suite in the Best Instrumental Composition category, has garnered a nod to Indian origin Rudresh Mahanthappa. He and fellow artistes will be competing with another talent of Indian origin, composer David Balkrishnan (Confetti Man) in the same section.
In the key categories, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and the Weekend have earned top nominations including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. (Also Read: Grammys 2016: Kendrick Lamar Storms Nominations, Taylor Swift Trails)
Mr Lamar is nominated 11 times in nine categories while the Weeknd is up for seven Grammys so is popstar Taylor. Drake is up for five nods, Alabama Shakes and Florence and the Machine have four nominations. Kanye West, D'Angelo, and Diplo are up for three nods each.
Record of the Year nominees are D'Angelo's Really Love, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud, Taylor Swift's Blank Space, and the Weeknd's Can't Feel My Face.
Album of the Year nominees are Alabama Shakes' Sound & Color, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly, Traveller by Chris Stapleton, 1989 by Taylor Swift; Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd.
Song of the year (songwriter's award) nominations include Alright; Blank Space, Girl Crush, See You Again and Thinking Out Loud
Best new artist nominees are Courtney Barnett, James Bay, Sam Hunt, Tori Kelly, Meghan Trainor.
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 15, 2016.
