Angelique Kidjo & Ladysmith Black Mambazo get 2016 GRAMMY Awards Noms | Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift & The Weeknd lead the List

     

             Angelique kidjo at the 57th annual Grammy's 

The full list of nominees for the 2016 Grammy

Awards has been announced.
Once again, Angelique Kidjo and Ladysmith
Black Mambazo are nominated in the world
music category which Angelique won.

The Zomba Prison Project , an innNoovative
advocacy based music project involving prisoners
in Zomba Prison is also nominated for the album
“I Have Nothing Here

Kendrick Lamar leads with 11 nominations while
Taylor Swift and The Weeknd follow behind with
7 nominations each.

Taylor Swift is the only artist to have
nominations in all three major categories
Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record
of the Year.
The Grammys will be taking place at the Staples
Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 15
and will be aired live on CBS.
See the full list below – there are 83 categories.

Album of the Year
Alabama Shakes, Sound and Color
Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
Chris Stapleton, Traveler
Taylor Swift, 1989
The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness

Song of the Year
Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Little Big Town, “Girl Crush”
Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth, “See You Again”
Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”

Record of the Year
D’Angelo and the Vanguard, “Really Love”
Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”
Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
The Weeknd, “Can’t Feel my Face”

Best New Artist
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Meghan Trainor

Field 6 – R&B
Category 17 – Best R&B Performance
(For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.)
If I Don’t Have You
Tamar Braxton
Track from: Calling All Lovers
[Epic Records]
Rise Up
Andra Day
Track from: Cheers To The Fall
[Warner Bros. Records]
Breathing Underwater
Hiatus Kaiyote
Track from: Choose Your Weapon
[Flying Buddha / Sony Masterworks]
Planes
Jeremih Featuring J. Cole
[Def Jam Recordings]
Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)
The Weeknd
Track from: Fifty Shades Of Grey (Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack)
[Universal Studios/Republic Records]

Field 15 – World Music
Category 53 – Best World Music Album
(For albums containing at least 51% playing time
of new vocal or instrumental world music
recordings.)
Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo
Gilberto Gil
[Masterworks]
Sings
Angelique Kidjo
[429 Records]
Music From Inala
Ladysmith Black Mambazo With Ella Spira &
The Inala Ensemble
[Ladysmith Black Mambazo]
Home5
Anoushka Shankar
[Deutsche Grammophon]
I Have No Everything Here
Zomba Prison Project
[Six Degrees]

Check out the full list here

Back to the real thing, Do these people really see our Nigerian artist works,or our artists needs to step up their game, because am like this is the 58th annual Grammy's and we are nowhere to be found

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