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Glorilla receives first Grammy Nomination, Muni Long achieves a milestone Grammy Nomination and Canadians take over the Grammys
BY SYDNEE WALCOTT
The nominees for the biggest music award show have been announced.
On November 15th, the nominations for the 65th Grammy Awards were announced. The list of nominees includes some familiar names and some new names.
2022 has been the year for rapper Glorilla as she received her first Grammy nomination as her breakout single, F.N.F (Let’s Go), has been nominated for Best Rap Performance.
The rapper took to Twitter to share the exciting news in the following tweet:
“The same song they were clowning me & my friends about saying we were Ugly & Dusty just got nominated for a Grammy!!!!!!!!! WHEN GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE YOU CANNOT FAIL.”
Glorilla’s milestone Grammy nomination comes just a few days after the release of her debut EP, Anyways, Life’s Great…
Although she has been in the music industry for over 10 years as a songwriter, and has already received a nomination last year for her work on H.E.R’s album, Back of My Mind, Muni Long received her first three Grammy nominations as a singer.
Long received a nomination for Best New Artist, and two nominations for her hit single, Hrs and Hrs, in two R&B categories for Best Performance and Best Song.
The song, Hrs and Hrs, became her breakthrough single, was placed at number 83 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart, and has become widely popular on TikTok.
Under her current stage name, Long released her debut album, Public Displays of Affection: The Album, on September 23rd, 2022.
The album includes her smash hit along with seven songs from her: the 2021 EP, Public Displays of Affection, five songs from her 2022 EP, Public Displays of Affection Too, and five new original songs.
Before achieving success as a singer, Long achieved success as a songwriter as she wrote popular hit songs such as: California King Bed by Rihanna, Don’t Wake Me Up by Chris Brown, Imagine by Ariana Grande, Timber by Pitbull ft. Ke$ha, and countless other hits for many popular artists.
Next year’s award show has a long list of Canadian nominations.
Canadian music engineer Serban Ghenea has won a total of 19 Grammys during his career in the music industry, and he could receive his 20th, or even more than that at the upcoming award show.
Ghenea, who has received five nominations, has received a nomination for Record of the Year for his work on Mary J. Blige’s Good Morning Gorgeous, and Album of the Year for his work on the deluxe version of Blidge’s album, Adele’s 30, and Lizzo’s Special.
Producer Boi-1da has received four nominations. These include two nominations in the Album of the Year category for Beyonce’s Renaissance, and Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big.
Kaytranada, who won two awards at last year’s ceremony, has been nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for his song Intimidated featuring H.E.R.
Despite boycotting the Grammys and not submitting his work, Drake holds two nominations in the Best Rap Song category for his appearances on Churchill Downs by Jack Harlow and the Canadian rapper and Wait For U by Future and also featuring Tems.
The annual award show is set to premiere on Sunday, February 5th, 2023 and is set to be hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.