paul simon was awarded for his work across multiple decades, and is tied for the most album of the year grammys for an artist.
paul simon was awarded for his work across multiple decades, and is tied for the most album of the year grammys for an artist.
which person, who was awarded for his work across multiple decades, is tied for the most album of the year grammys for an artist?
paul simon
on february 19, 1977, wonder was nominated for seven grammy awards, including album of the year, an award that he had already won twice, in 1974 and 1975, for "innervisions" and "fulfillingness’ first finale". since 1973, stevie’s presence at the grammy ceremonies had been consistent – he attended most of the ceremonies and also used to perform on stage. but in 1976, he did not attend as he was not nominated for any awards (as he had not released any new material during the past year). paul simon, who received the grammy for album of the year in that occasion (for "still crazy after all these years") jokingly thanked stevie for not releasing an album that year. a year after, wonder was nominated for "songs in the key of life" in that same category, and was widely favored by many critics to take the award. the other nominees were "breezin’" by george benson, "chicago x" by chicago, "silk degrees" by boz scaggs, and the other favorite, peter frampton’s "frampton comes alive!", which was also a huge critical and commercial success. wonder was again absent from the ceremony, as he had developed an interest in visiting africa. in february he traveled to nigeria for two weeks, primarily to explore his musical heritage, as he put it. a satellite hook-up was arranged so that stevie could be awarded his grammys from across the sea. bette midler announced the results during the ceremony, and the audience was only able to see wonder at a phone smiling and giving thanks. the video signal was poor and the audio inaudible. andy williams went on to make a public blunder when he asked the blind-since-birth wonder, “stevie, can you see us?” in all, wonder won four out of seven nominations at the grammys: album of the year, best male pop vocal performance, best male r&b vocal performance and producer of the year.
songs in the key of life
george marino mastered many of john lennon's and yoko ono's albums, one of them being "double fantasy" with producer jack douglas. "double fantasy" had been out a few weeks when douglas and lennon decided to have a song they had just finished, yoko ono's "walking on thin ice", mastered with marino at sterling sound for a single release. on the evening of december 8, 1980, after finishing up a session at the record plant, douglas said to lennon "see you in the morning" as they planned to have breakfast together at 9am before heading to sterling, but john lennon was gunned down 20 minutes later on his way back to the dakota.marino received his first and only grammy for arcade fire's "the suburbs", the year before he died. in 2002, mastering engineers became eligible to win grammys. from 1969 to 2012, marino mastered albums which under current rules, would have won him an additional seven grammys in the categories of record of the year, album of the year and best engineered album, non-classical: three for album of the year winners "innervisions", "double fantasy" and "the bodyguard", two record of the year grammys for "i will always love you" and "clocks", and two more for best engineered album, non-classical for his mastering of "innervisions" and "chicago 17".
george marino