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Alessandro Buccellati
Alessandro Buccellati (born September 10, 1998) is a Grammy Award and Mercury Prize winning American musician, record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of the band plus +.+ and has worked alongside artists including SZA, Pharrell Williams, Miguel, Tamino, Mitski, DJ Dahi, Mike Sabath, Orion Sun, Arlo Parks, Dhruv, Sean Leon, Eddie Benjamin, Easy Life and Terry Presume. Life and career Buccellati, a native of New York, now resides between Los Angeles and Paris. In February 2024, Buccellati was nominated for a Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance for his work on SZA song 'Low' on the SOS album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. ''Time'' called "Low" a "strip club anthem". The album SOS won Best Progressive R&B Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. Buccellati also contributed to Arlo Parks' album Collapsed In Sunbeams which in April 2022 received a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards as wel ...
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Eddie Benjamin
Eddie Benjamin is an Australian singer-songwriter and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. He has written and produced for artists such as Meghan Trainor, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Shawn Mendes while also touring with Justin Bieber in 2022. He released his debut EP ''Emotional'' in 2021. Biography Benjamin was born and raised in Australia. While attending Rose Bay Secondary College in Sydney, he met Tash Wolf and Indy Linzbichler with whom he would form the group Haze Trio. The group toured Australia and won competitions, including the statewide talent search for YouthRock 2016. In 2019, Benjamin moved to Los Angeles, California, where he wrote and produced for artists such as Meghan Trainor and Earth, Wind & Fire. He also worked with Justin Bieber, whom he met through a mutual friend, later appearing in the artist's 2021 documentary. In 2020 he released his debut single "Fuck My Friends", which he co-produced with Dan Gleyzer. He followed this with his debut EP ...
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Best Alternative Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". In 2023, it was joined by a companion category, Best Alternative Music Performance. Criteria While the definition of "alternative" has been debated, the award was first presented in 1991 to recognize non-mainstream rock albums "heavily played on college radio stations". After several updates of the category description, the Grammy organisation issued the following statement for the 2019 Grammy season: ''Alternative is defined as a genre of music t ...
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Collapsed In Sunbeams
''Collapsed in Sunbeams'' is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, released via Transgressive Records on 29 January 2021. The album received widespread acclaim, with many music critics praising Parks' versatility and vulnerability. The record was supported by seven singles including " Black Dog" and "Hurt". The album won the 2021 Mercury Prize, and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Background and recording Prior to the release of ''Collapsed in Sunbeams'', Parks had recorded and independently released two extended plays, namely ''Super Sad Generation'' (2019) and ''Sophie'' (2019), since her solo debut in 2018 with the song "Cola". In early October 2020, Parks revealed via social media that she had finished recording "the album". She had prior told ''NME'' in July 2020 that she had been "doing a lot of writing" and thinking about exactly what she wanted to express in her "first big cohesive statement of in ...
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Grammy Award For Album Of The Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an award presented by the The Recording Academy, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Commonly known as "The Big Award", Album of the Year is the most prestigious category at the Grammy Awards and is one of the general field categories that have been presented annually since the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959 alongside Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Best New Artist, Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year, and Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year. Credit rules Over the years, the rules on who was presented with an award have changed: *1959–1965: Artist only. *1966–1998: Artist and producer. *1999–2002: Artist, producer, and recording engineer or mixer. *2003–2017: Artist, featured artist, pr ...
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Grammy Award For Best Progressive R&B Album
The Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for high quality works on albums in the urban contemporary subgenre within the R&B field. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Recording Academy of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". This category was one of the three newly created categories for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards as Best Urban Contemporary Album. In June 2020, the Recording Academy announced a renaming and redefining of the category. Its new name was Best Progressive R&B Album, with immediate effect, "to appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre. This change includes a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B." Adding to this, t ...
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Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps as ''TIME'') is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published Weekly newspaper, weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. History 20th century ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923 ...
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66th Annual Grammy Awards
The 66th Annual Grammy Awards honored the best recordings, compositions, and artists from October 1, 2022, to September 15, 2023, as chosen by the members of The Recording Academy, on February 4, 2024. In its 21st year at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the ceremony was broadcast on CBS and available to stream on Paramount+, and was hosted by Trevor Noah for the fourth time. The nominations were announced on November 10, 2023; SZA received the most nominations with nine, followed by Victoria Monét, Phoebe Bridgers (solo and as part of boygenius), and Serban Ghenea with seven each. Monét's 2-year-old daughter, Hazel, became the youngest nominee in Grammy Awards history; she was a featured artist on her mother's song "Hollywood", which was nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Bridgers was the night's biggest winner, receiving four awards: Three as part of Boygenius ( Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance, and Best Alternative Music Album), and Best Pop ...
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SOS (SZA Album)
''SOS'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter SZA. It was released on December 9, 2022, by Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) and RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers, Travis Scott, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. SZA worked with a variety of record producers and songwriters such as Babyface (musician), Babyface, Jeff Bhasker, Rob Bisel, Benny Blanco, Rodney Jerkins, Darkchild, DJ Dahi, Ant Clemons, and Lizzo. It serves as the follow-up to SZA's debut album ''Ctrl (SZA album), Ctrl'' (2017). Six singles were released between 2020 and 2023 to promote ''SOS'', five of which were top-ten hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The fifth, "Kill Bill (song), Kill Bill" (2023), was SZA's first song to top the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and Billboard Global 200, ''Billboard'' Global 200 charts; the sixth, "Snooze (SZA song), Snooze" (2023), was the only song to chart on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for all of 2023. The ...
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Low (SZA Song)
"Low" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA from her second album, '' SOS'' (2022). It was written alongside Jozzy and producers Rob Bisel, Aire Atlantica (Joseph Pincus), & Alessandro Buccellati, and features adlibs from fellow American singer and rapper Travis Scott. It charted in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, with a number 24 peak on the ''Billboard'' Global 200. The song received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance at the 66th ceremony. Background SZA released her debut studio album, '' Ctrl'', in 2017. Primarily an R&B album that deals with themes like heartbreak, it received widespread acclaim for SZA's vocal performance, the musical style, and the songwriting. The album brought SZA to mainstream fame, and critics credit it with establishing her as a major figure in contemporary pop and R&B music and pushing the boundaries of R&B. Her next studio album was highly anticipa ...
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Grammy Award For Best Melodic Rap Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance (awarded as Best Rap/Sung Collaboration until 2017, and Best Rap/Sung Performance from 2018 to 2020) is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs on which Rapping, rappers and singers collaborate. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". The name and definition of the category were changed in June 2020, with immediate effect, to represent the inclusivity of the growing hybrid performance trends within the rap genre. According to the Recording Academy, "This category is intended to recognize solo and collaborative performances containing elements of rap and mel ...
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Grammy
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annua ...
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