From 1st-time nominees to veterans of the award show, here's what to expect at tonight's 2020 Grammy Awards.
broke the record for longest consecutive run in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart last year. Billboard originally removed the song from its Hot Country chart, stating that it did"not embrace enough elements of today’s country music to chart in its current version." Lil Nas X then rereleased the song with Billy Ray Cyrus, keeping its fusion of country and rap that gained him notice in the first place.
Maggie Rogers also had her viral moment, gaining her big break came when her song"Alaska" was played to Pharrell Williams during a class at New York University in 2016. She released her first album"Heard it in a Past Life" last year. While many of the nominees might not come as a surprise as they are in fact the biggest names in the music industry, some artists have the potential to be introduced to new audiences., a four-man string band that blends Appalachian and Latin music, formed after Joe Troop, the group’s founder, moved to Argentina to teach the five-string banjo.
“Bluegrass is the sound of my home, and there are a lot of immigrants living in Appalachia, but we’re a globalized bluegrass band, products of a globalized world,” Troop told NBC News. “It’s a natural thing, then, to write about immigration in our songs.” Other first-time Grammy Award nominees include Haitian-American Nathalie Joachim, whose debut solo album"Fanm d'Ayiti" has been nominated for Best World Music Album this year, and Gregory Alan Isakov, a South African-born artist whose album Evening Machines is nominated in the Best Folk Album category.
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