2025 GRAMMY Awards

Bethel Music

2025 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - "Holy Forever (Live)" — Bethel Music, Jenn Johnson Featuring CeCe Winan

Alicia Keys

2025 Nominations:

• Best Musical Theater Album - Hell’s Kitchen — Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis & Meleah Joi Moon, principal vocalists; Adam Blackstone, Alicia Keys & Tom Kitt, producers (Alicia Keys, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)

Chiquis

2025 Nominations:

• Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano) - Diamantes — Chiquis

Chris Stapleton

2025 Nominations:

• Best Country Solo Performance - "It Takes A Woman" — Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Album - Higher — Chris Stapleton

Cimafunk

2025 Nominations:

• Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album - Pa' Tu Cuerpa — Cimafunk

Coco Jones

2025 Nominations:

• Best R&B Performance - "Here We Go (Uh Oh)" — Coco Jones
• Best R&B Song - "Here We Go (Uh Oh)" — Sara Diamond, Sydney Floyd, Marisela Jackson, Courtney Jones, Carl McCormick & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters (Coco Jones)

Common

2025 Nominations:

• Best Rap Performance - "When The Sun Shines Again" — Common & Pete Rock Featuring Posdnuos
• Best Rap Album - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 — Common & Pete Rock

Cyrille Aimée

2025 Nominations:

• Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album - À Fleur De Peau — Cyrille Aimée

DOE

2025 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - "Holy Hands" — DOE; Jesse Paul Barrera, Jeffrey Castro Bernat, Dominique Jones, Timothy Ferguson, Kelby Shavon Johnson, Jr., Jonathan McReynolds, Rickey Slikk Muzik Offord & Juan Winans, songwriters
• Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Heart Of A Human — DOE

Eliane Elias

2025 Nominations:

• Best Latin Jazz Album - Time And Again — Eliane Elias

Ernest

2025 Nominations:

• Best Country Song - "I Had Some Help" — Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Morgan Wallen & Chandler Paul Walters, songwriters (Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen)

Feid

2025 Nominations:

• Best Música Urbana Album - FERXXOCALIPSIS — Feid

Israel Houghton

2025 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - "One Hallelujah" — Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr; G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Naomi Raine, songwriters

Jekalyn Carr

2025 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - "One Hallelujah" — Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr; G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Naomi Raine, songwriters

Jelly Roll

2025 Nominations:

• Best Country Solo Performance - "I Am Not Okay" — Jelly Roll
• Best Country Song - "I Am Not Okay" — Casey Brown, Jason DeFord, Ashley Gorley & Taylor Phillips, songwriters (Jelly Roll)

John Legend

2025 Nominations:

• Best Children's Music Album - My Favorite Dream — John Legend
• Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella - "Bridge Over Troubled Water" — Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly & John Legend, arrangers (Jacob Collier Featuring John Legend & Tori Kelly)
• Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals - "Always Come Back" — Matt Jones, arranger (John Legend)

Jon Batiste

2025 Nominations:

• Best Song Written For Visual Media - It Never Went Away [From “American Symphony”] — Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
• Best Music Film - "American Symphony" — Jon Batiste; Matthew Heineman, video director; Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman & Joedan Okun, video producers

Jonathan McReynolds

2025 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - "Holy Hands" — DOE; Jesse Paul Barrera, Jeffrey Castro Bernat, Dominique Jones, Timothy Ferguson, Kelby Shavon Johnson, Jr., Jonathan McReynolds, Rickey Slikk Muzik Offord & Juan Winans, songwriters
• Best Gospel Performance/Song - "One Hallelujah" — Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr; G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Naomi Raine, songwriters

Kany García

2025 Nominations:

• Best Latin Pop Album - GARCÍA — Kany García

Kirk Franklin

2025 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Album - Father's Day — Kirk Franklin

Lainey Wilson

2025 Nominations:

• Best Country Album - Whirlwind — Lainey Wilson

Lalah Hathaway

2025 Nominations:

• Best Traditional R&B Performance - "No Lie" — Lalah Hathaway Featuring Michael McDonald
• Best R&B Album - VANTABLACK — Lalah Hathaway

Latto

2025 Nominations:

• Best Melodic Rap Performance - "Big Mama" — Latto

Lucky Daye

2025 Nominations:

• Best Traditional R&B Performance - "That's You" — Lucky Daye
• Best R&B Album - Algorithm — Lucky Daye
• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - Algorithm — Dernst Emile II, Michael B. Hunter, Stephan Johnson, Rachel Keen, John Kercy, Charles Moniz & Todd Robinson, engineers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer (Lucky Daye)

Luke Combs

2025 Nominations:

• Best Song Written For Visual Media - Ain't No Love In Oklahoma [From "Twisters: The Album"] — Jessi Alexander, Luke Combs & Jonathan Singleton, songwriters (Luke Combs)

Maggie Rose

2025 Nominations:

• Best Americana Album - No One Gets Out Alive — Maggie Rose

Maverick City Music

2025 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - "In The Name Of Jesus" — JWLKRS Worship & Maverick City Music Featuring Chandler Moore; Austin Armstrong, Ran Jackson, Chandler Moore, Sajan Nauriyal, Ella Schnacky, Noah Schnacky & Ilya Toshinskiy, songwriters
• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - "In The Room" — Maverick City Music, Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore Featuring Tasha Cobbs Leonard; G. Morris Coleman, Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Naomi Raine, songwriters
• Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - The Maverick Way Complete — Maverick City Music, Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore

Melvin Crispell III

2025 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - "Yesterday" — Melvin Crispell III
• Best Gospel Album - Covered Vol. 1 — Melvin Crispell III

Muni Long

2025 Nominations:

• Best R&B Performance - "Made For Me (Live On BET)" — Muni Long
• Best Traditional R&B Performance - "Make Me Forget" — Muni Long
• Best R&B Song - "Ruined Me" — Jeff Gitelman, Priscilla Renea & Kevin Theodore, songwriters (Muni Long)
• Best R&B Album - Revenge — Muni Long

Rawayana

2025 Nominations:

• Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album - ¿Quién trae las cornetas? — Rawayana

Sara Diamond

2025 Nominations:

• Best R&B Song - "Here We Go (Uh Oh)" — Sara Diamond, Sydney Floyd, Marisela Jackson, Courtney Jones, Carl McCormick & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters (Coco Jones)

Shemekia Copeland

2025 Nominations:

• Best American Roots Performance - "Blame It On Eve" — Shemekia Copeland
• Best American Roots Song - "Blame It On Eve" — John Hahn & Will Kimbrough, songwriters (Shemekia Copeland)
• Best Contemporary Blues Album - Blame It On Eve — Shemekia Copeland

The Rumble

2025 Nominations:

• Best Regional Roots Music Album - Stories From The Battlefield — The Rumble Featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.

Trombone Shorty

2025 Nominations:

• Best Regional Roots Music Album - Live At The 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Breed Brass Band Featuring Trombone Shorty

William Clark Green

2025 Nominations:

• Best Recording Package - Baker Hotel — Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (William Clark Green)

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