{"id":2268341,"date":"2026-02-05T18:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268341"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:05:22","slug":"jelly-roll-shares-plan-to-donate-grammy-to-nashville-jail-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jelly-roll-shares-plan-to-donate-grammy-to-nashville-jail-nbc-6-south-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll shares plan to donate Grammy to Nashville jail \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jelly Roll wants to turn his biggest career milestone into a symbol of hope for the place where his life took a dramatic turn.<\/p>\n

Coming off a triumphant night at the 2026 Grammys Awards<\/a> on Sunday, where he swept all three categories in which he was nominated, the Nashville native revealed that one of his trophies is headed to an unexpected location: a county jail in his hometown.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with Entertainment Tonight,<\/a> the country star explained that he wants to keep one Grammy in his studio as a reminder of the troubles he has overcome, while the other will be gifted to Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall. <\/p>\n

Sitting beside him during the interview, his\u00a0“Star Search”\u00a0costar Sarah Michelle Gellar summed up the symbolism: \u201cSo people know there\u2019s life after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhile in Minneapolis to open for Post Malone, country star Jelly Roll made a surprise visit to the Hennepin County Jail, where he shared his story of incarceration and redemption with inmates.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Jelly Roll\u2019s emotional reaction<\/a> to his wins made it clear why this moment carries so much weight. Accepting the award for Best Contemporary Country Album for “Beautifully Broken,” he reflected on the years when he felt hopeless and directionless. He spoke about the period in 2008 when he was locked in a six\u2011by\u2011eight cell on a drug possession charge, relying on a small Bible and a radio to get him through the darkest days. He told the audience that he believed music and faith could change him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed that music had the power to change my life,\u201d he continued, \u201cand God had the power to change my life. I want to tell y\u2019all right now. Jesus is for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has said he was arrested around 40 times before turning his life around, often for drug-related offenses that began in his teenage years. Everything shifted when his daughter Bailee was born in 2008, a moment he credits<\/a> with forcing him to confront the path he was on.<\/p>\n

In the years since, Jelly Roll has become just as recognized for his advocacy as for his music. He has helped fund addiction recovery initiatives, supported programs for at\u2011risk youth in Nashville, including building recording studios in local juvenile facilities and used his platform to call for a justice system that prioritizes rehabilitation over punishment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nbcmiami.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jelly Roll wants to turn his biggest career milestone into a symbol of hope for the place where his life took a dramatic turn. Coming off a triumphant night at the 2026 Grammys Awards on Sunday, where he swept all three categories in which he was nominated, the Nashville native revealed that one of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268342,"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":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2268341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jelly-Roll-shares-plan-to-donate-Grammy-to-Nashville-jail.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268341","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=2268341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268343,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268341\/revisions\/2268343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}