The biggest snubs and surprises from the 2022 Grammys nominations.
In addition to album and record of the year nominations, Batiste dominated Grammy’s genre categories, earning nods in jazz, R&B, roots, even classical.
Something about Batiste’s skills and approach, however, resonated with Grammy voters. In addition to the above, Batiste’s work is nominated for traditional R&B performance, R&B album, improvised jazz solo, jazz instrumental album, American roots song and performance, score soundtrack for visual media, music video and contemporary classical composition.
And then there’s Aftab. Until Tuesday morning, the 36-year-old Brooklyn-based singer and composer’s most prominent appearance was on Barack Obama’s summer playlist. She’s never performed on network television and issued her 2021 album “Vulture Prince” not through a major label but on the New York experimental label New Amsterdam.
Born and raised in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Aftab has earned attention with “Vulture Prince” for its seven meditative, minimal works that draw inspiration from a free-flowing South Asian lyric poetry form known as the ghazal. Singing mostly in Urdu, the Berklee College of Music-trained Aftab combines stringed instruments, synthesizers and the occasional percussive accent with multi-tracked layers of her pitch-perfect voice.
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