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Dan Auerbach has had a busy year, and it’s paying off.<\/p>\n
The Akron native and frontman of The Black Keys<\/a> has earned his fifth Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical \u2014 recognition that caps a prodigious 2025.<\/p>\n Auerbach, a previous winner in the category in 2013, is nominated alongside producers Blake Mills, Cirkut, Dijon and Sounwave for the 2026 Grammy Awards, which will be held Feb. 1 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n The Recording Academy praised Auerbach<\/a> for channeling “lived-in, visceral blues-rock” that blends authenticity with innovation \u2014 a sound that has defined much of his career since his early days in Akron basements and bars.<\/p>\n The nomination crowns a year where Auerbach’s wide-ranging musical reach has been on display. He produced albums from Robert Finley, Early James, Miles Kane and The Velveteers, released an instrumental record with The Moonrisers and co-wrote a Leon Bridges and Hermanos Guti\u00e9rrez single that climbed to No. 3 on Billboard\u2019s Adult Alternative Airplay chart.<\/p>\n He also appeared on a duet with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders and earned songwriting credits on new records by Blake Shelton and the Zac Brown Band, including a song featuring Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n That\u2019s in addition to releasing the new Black Keys album “No Rain, No Flowers,” going on a pair of American and European tours and hosting DJ sets with Black Keys bandmate Patrick Carney<\/a>.<\/p>\n Auerbach was also nominated for Producer of the Year in 2013, 2020, 2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n