Berklee Alumni Earn 6 Grammy Award Nominations

Liz Lupton

December 11, 2013

Imagine Dragons

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nominated 31 Berklee alumni for a total of 36 Grammy Awards. For the third year in a row, Berklee alumni are nominated in the top three categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. Among the Berklee alumni nominated in these categories are three of the four members of Imagine Dragons (guitarist Wayne Sermon, drummer Daniel Platzman, and bassist Ben McKee), up for Record of the Year for their chart-topper Radioactive. Other Berklee alumni are nominated in the top three categories for their work on hits like Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell's Blurred Lines, Bruno Mars's Locked out of Heaven, Pink featuring Nate Ruess's Just Give Me a Reason, Taylor Swift's album Red, and Kendrick Lamar's album Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. To date, Berklee alumni have collectively won 231 Grammy Awards.

The 56th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, January 26, and will be broadcast on CBS at 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST

A full list of Berklee alumni Grammy Award nominees follows:

Category 1 Record of the Year

Radioactive, artist: Imagine Dragons

Berklee nominees: Imagine Dragons members, guitarist Wayne Sermon 08, drummer Daniel Platzman 09, bassist Ben McKee 09; Josh Mosser 05, engineer/mixer

Locked out of Heaven, artist: Bruno Mars

Berklee nominees: Jeff Bhasker 99, co-producer; Josh Blair 99, engineer/mixer

Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell

Berklee nominees: Tony Maserati 86, engineer/mixer

Category 2 Album of the Year

Red, artist: Taylor Swift

Berklee nominees: Jeff Bhasker 99, co-producer; Pawel Sek 00, engineer/mixer

Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Kendrick Lamar

Berklee nominees: Anna Wise 10, featured artist; Dawaun Parker 05, co-producer

Category 3 Song of the Year

Just Give Me a Reason, artist: Pink featuring Nate Ruess

Berklee nominees: Jeff Bhasker 99, co-songwriter.

Category 7 Best Pop Instrumental Album

Hacienda artist: Jeff Lorber Fusion

Berklee nominees: Jeff Lorber 71

Summer Horns, artist: Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, and Richard Elliot

Berklee nominees: Mindi Abair 91

Category 12 Best Rock Performance

Radioactive, artist: Imagine Dragons

Berklee nominees: Imagine Dragons members, guitarist Wayne Sermon 08, drummer Daniel Platzman 09, bassist Ben McKee 09

Category 13 Best Metal Performance

The Enemy Inside, artist: Dream Theater

Berklee nominees: Dream Theater members, guitarist John Petrucci 86, John Myung 86

In Due Time, artist: Killswitch Engage

Berklee nominees: Killswitch Engage member Adam Dutkiewicz 99

Category 17 Best R&B Performance

Something, artist: Snarky Puppy with Lalah Hathaway

Berklee nominees: Lalah Hathaway 94

Category 19 Best R&B Song

Love and War, artist: Tamar Braxton

Berklee nominees: Makeba Riddick 99, co-songwriter

Category 31 Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Stadium Jazz, artist: Donny McCaslin

Berklee nominees: Donny McCaslin 88, soloist

Category 32 Best Jazz Vocal Album

After Blue, artist: Tierney Sutton

Berklee nominees: Tierney Sutton 87

Category 33 Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Guided Tour, artist: The New Gary Burton Quartet

Berklee nominees: The New Gary Burton Quartet members, vibraphonist Gary Burton 62, guitarist Julian Lage 08, and drummer Antonio Sanchez 97

Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue, Terri Lyne Carrington

Berklee nominees: Terri Lyne Carrington 83

Category 34 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Wild Beauty, artist: Brussels Jazz Orchestra feat. Joe Lovano

Berklee nominee: Joe Lovano 72

Category 41 Best Latin Pop Album

12 Historias, artist: Tommy Torres

Berklee nominee: Tommy Torres 94

Category 47 Best Bluegrass Album

This World Oft Can Be, artist: Della Mae

Berklee nominee: Della Mae member Courtney Hartman 12

Category 56 Best Musical Theater Album

Kinky Boots, artist: Original Broadway Cast

Berklee nominee: Stephen Oremus 92, co-producer

Category 61 Best Instrumental Arrangement

Wild Beauty, artist: Brussels Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano

Berklee nominee: Gil Goldstein 70, arranger

Category 62 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Swing Low, artist: Bobby McFerrin and Esperanza Spalding

Berkle nominee: Gil Goldstein 70, arranger

Category 63 Best Recording Package

Automatic Music Can Be Fun, artist: Geneseo

Berklee nominee: Mike Brown 99, art director

Category 67 Best Engineered Album, non-classical

...Like Clockwork, artist: Queens of the Stone Age

Berklee nominee: Gavin Lurrsen 91, mastering engineer

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