Rubin, of course, built Johnny Cash from a casino-playing relic back into some kind of god with the records he produced for the Man in Black in the ’90s and 2000s, and Carlile had the idea she could do something like that with her own personal heroine, Tanya Tucker, in 2019. Speaking of Mars, Batisteīrandi Carlile Is a Human Prism for ‘Right on Time’ Grammys PerformanceĬelebrity comebacks don’t often go exactly as planned, but it helps when the planner is someone with as much of a knack for military precision and as broad a sense of the big cultural picture as a Rick Rubin or a Brandi Carlile. And in case you’re wondering, the only nonwhite artist to win Best Album during that time was Bruno Mars in 2018. The show was directed by Joe Perota and first aired on MTV on May 28, 1996.
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It was recorded on Apat the Brooklyn Academy of Music 's Majestic Theatre for the television series MTV Unplugged. You read that right: It’s literally been 14 years and 3 presidents since the Academy recognized the work of Black artists with this honor. Unplugged is a live album and DVD by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on Jby Columbia Records.
Batiste also accomplished a rather ignominious milestone for the Grammy Awards themselves: He’s the first Black artist to win Album of the Year since Herbie Hancock back in 2008. The 2022 Grammy Awards broadcast wrapped up with an upset victory of sorts, with Jon Batiste beating out the likes of Taylor Swift and Kanye west to take home Album of the Year for his excellent “We Are.” That was his fifth win of the night, following four wins during the “Premiere Ceremony,” where all of the awards not deemed cool enough for television were handed out, hosted by the always wonderful Levar Burton.