Jimmy Carter Nominated for tenth Grammy Award

Jimmy Carter has earned his tenth Grammy nomination at 100 years outdated.

On Friday, Nov. 8, the Recording Academy introduced that the previous president was nominated in the perfect audio e-book, narration, and storytelling recording class for his report Final Sundays within the Plains: A Centennial Celebration.

This nomination marks his tenth nomination and it makes him a record-breaker. At 100 years outdated, he has turn out to be the oldest Grammy nominee of all time, per the BBC.

“What an honor!” the Carter Basis wrote in a put up shared to X (previously Twitter) asserting the nomination.

Carter has received three Grammys, all in the perfect spoken phrase album class. He scored wins for Religion – A Journey For All (2018), A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (2015) and Our Endangered Values: America’s Ethical Disaster (2005).

Final Sundays within the Plains: A Centennial Celebration was Carter’s most up-to-date spoken-word album. Launched in honor of the previous president’s a hundredth birthday, the album options recordings from Carter’s ultimate Sunday Faculty lesson delivered at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga., the place he served as a trainer for years. His lectures are set to music performed by Jon Batiste, Keb’ Mo’, LeAnn Rimes, Darius Rucker, Nicole Zuraitis and others.

The challenge’s producer, Kabir Sehgal, beforehand informed Georgia Public Broadcasting that it “is mostly a ultimate fruits of President Carter’s Sunday faculty classes for years, for many years.”

“He taught Sunday faculty at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. And I used to be blessed to see [his Sunday School class in person],” Sehgal stated in October.

In response to Sehgal, Carter’s classes accompanied by the music had been a manner for him to “present the love I’ve for President Carter’s household by the music.”

The previous president’s prayers and classes recorded for the album replicate on a number of subjects, together with the present political local weather of the U.S.

“I would really like our presidential candidates to maintain our nation at peace, and to be champions of human rights, of environmental high quality and of equality,” Carter says on the recording. “Aren’t these stuff you want to have? It places the duty on us as People to make our nation higher by serving to to offer anyone else a greater life.”

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Additionally nominated within the audio e-book and narration class for the 2025 Grammy Awards are George Clinton’s …And Your Ass Will Comply with, producer Man Oldfield’s All You Want Is Love: The Beatles in Their Personal Phrases, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones — from Dolly Parton and Barbra Streisand‘s My Title Is Barbra.

The information of Carter’s nomination additionally comes 21 months after he entered hospice care. Although he made a uncommon public look at his late spouse Rosalynn Carter’s funeral final November, Carter is “bodily restricted” and spends his time at house with family members.

“That is an essential a part of his religion journey, and it is one which you aren’t getting to expertise at some other time in your life apart from the very finish,” his grandson Jason Carter informed PEOPLE in September 2023, a number of months after his grandfather entered hospice. “And so in that manner, I feel this has been a very significant time for him, and it has been a very reflective time for him.”

The 67th Grammy Awards is ready to happen stay in Los Angeles on the Crypto.com Enviornment on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.