{"id":2142206,"date":"2025-11-08T03:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2142206"},"modified":"2025-11-08T03:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:15:42","slug":"list-2026-grammy-nominees-with-louisiana-ties-entertainment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/list-2026-grammy-nominees-with-louisiana-ties-entertainment-life\/","title":{"rendered":"List: 2026 Grammy nominees with Louisiana ties | Entertainment\/Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-breakout=\"1\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>Music&#8217;s biggest night is full of Louisiana flair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/news\/2026-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Grammy nominations<\/a> were announced today, with several categories featuring artists with Louisiana ties. Baskin native <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lainey Wilson's 'Whirlwind' tour blows through Louisiana this week: 'I love where I'm from.'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/94e20bbf-2bb2-4838-87e8-61febc7eda06\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lainey Wilson<\/a>, 33, is up for three nominations, while the best regional roots music album category is nothing but New Orleans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilson recently brought her &#8220;Whirlwind&#8221; tour to Baton Rouge and Bossier City in September. In the same month, she received six Country Music Association nominations, including the Entertainer of the Year award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"2\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>Now she&#8217;s up for the following Grammy nominations:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best country solo performance for &#8220;Somewhere Over Laredo&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Best country duo\/group performance for &#8220;Trailblazer&#8221; with Reba McEntire and Miranda Lambert<\/li>\n<li>Best country song for &#8220;Somewhere Over Laredo&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-right tnt-inline-width-half\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-24f37565-68a2-5434-9eb3-46a6cbf7873a\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-ed9937e1-d7a1-5b1b-93a2-460600eb3bcf-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-ed9937e1-d7a1-5b1b-93a2-460600eb3bcf\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-24f37565-68a2-5434-9eb3-46a6cbf7873a\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-ed9937e1-d7a1-5b1b-93a2-460600eb3bcf-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-ed9937e1-d7a1-5b1b-93a2-460600eb3bcf\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1789\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1159\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/nola.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/4f\/24f37565-68a2-5434-9eb3-46a6cbf7873a\/64544e546005f.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C904\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/nola.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/4f\/24f37565-68a2-5434-9eb3-46a6cbf7873a\/64544e546005f.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C904\"\/><br \/>\n                        \n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Buddy Guy uses a drum stick to play a Jimi Hendrix tune on the Festival Stage at the New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival on Thursday, May 4, 2023. (Photo by Chris Granger | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">Staff photo by Chris Granger NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorelouisiana.com\/music\/buddy-guys-birthplace\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Guy<\/a>, 89, a blues guitarist and singer who attended high school in Baton Rouge and worked as a custodian at Louisiana State University, is nominated for best traditional blues album for his album &#8220;Ain\u2019t Done With The Blues.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Louisiana native <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"5 things to know about 'Diet Pepsi' singer Addison Rae, a Louisiana native and TikTok star\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/4ea5cbeb-1362-55a0-8930-c96bbf1d415b\/\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Rae<\/a>, 25, is up for best new artist. Through the years, this award has been given to artists like Chappell Roan, Chance the Rapper, Sam Smith, Adele, Amy Winehouse and\u00a0Zac Brown Band.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"3\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>Other Grammy nominees with Louisiana ties include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon Batiste:<\/strong>\u00a0Best American roots performance for &#8220;LONELY AVENUE,&#8221; best American roots song for &#8220;BIG MONEY&#8221; and best americana album for &#8220;BIG MONEY&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corey Henry &amp; The Treme Funktet:<\/strong> Best regional roots music album for &#8220;Live At\u00a0Vaughan\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preservation Brass &amp; Preservation Hall Jazz Band:<\/strong> Best regional roots music album for &#8220;For Fat Man&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Roussel:<\/strong> Best regional roots music album for &#8220;Church of New Orleans&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trombone Shorty And New Breed Brass Band:<\/strong> Best regional roots album for &#8220;Second Line Sunday&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sullivan Fornter:<\/strong> Best jazz instrumental album for &#8220;Southern Nights&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"4\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p><strong>Greer Grimsely:<\/strong> Best opera recording for &#8220;Tesori: Grounded&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carter Lang:<\/strong> Album of the year for co-write on Justin Bieber&#8217;s &#8220;SWAG&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnaye Kendrick:<\/strong> Best<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>arrangement, instruments and vocals for &#8220;Big Fish&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenny Wayne Shepherd:<\/strong> Best traditional blues album for &#8220;Young Fashioned Ways&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The 68th Grammy Awards will air on Feb. 1 on CBS.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music&#8217;s biggest night is full of Louisiana flair.\u00a0 The 2026 Grammy nominations were announced today, with several categories featuring artists with Louisiana ties. Baskin native Lainey Wilson, 33, is up for three nominations, while the best regional roots music album category is nothing but New Orleans.\u00a0 Wilson recently brought her &#8220;Whirlwind&#8221; tour to Baton Rouge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2142207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/List-2026-Grammy-nominees-with-Louisiana-ties-EntertainmentLife.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142208,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142206\/revisions\/2142208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}