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Grammy Awards 2022 nominations: Here's the complete list

The Recording Academy has revealed the nominees for the 64th annual Grammy Awards which will be held in 2022 and for the first time it celebrates 10 nominees in each of the general field categories.

Musician Jon Batiste leads Grammy Award nominations with 11

Jon Batiste might be the Grammys biggest surprise: The multi-genre performer and recent Oscar winner made such an impression on voters that he scored the most nominations with 11 on Tuesday. Batiste earned an album of the year nod for We Are along with record of the year with Freedom, a feel-good ode to the city of New Orleans. His nominations span several genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video. Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and HER each came away with the second-most nominations with eight by the time the Recording Academy was done announcing its nominees for its January 31 show. Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo both had seven nods. Along with Batiste's surprise domination, another shock was The Weeknd nabbing three nominations after the pop star claimed he would not allow his label to submit his music. Earlier this year, he angrily slammed the Grammys, calling them corrupt after he received zero nominations despite 2020's biggest single, Blinding

Thousands of Venezuelan musicians set world's largest orchestra record

Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them children and adolescents, have earned the title of the world's largest orchestra. The record was set by 8,573 musicians. Guinness World Records in a video released Saturday announced that the musicians, all connected to the country's network of youth orchestras, earned the designation with a performance a week earlier of Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March". The musicians, ranging in age from 12 to 77, attempted the record during a patriotic concert at a military academy in the capital of Caracas. To set the record, more than 8,097 had to be tallied playing at the same time during a five-minute period of Tchaikovsky's piece. The network of orchestras known as El Sistema, or The System, assembled some 12,000 musicians for the concert. The repertoire included Venezuela by Pablo Herrero and Jose Luis Armenteros, the South American country's national anthem and Pedro Gutierrez's Alma Llanera, which Venezuelans consider their unofficial anthem.

WhiteHat Jr's music lessons for all ages; customised course for 18-plus set

Pandemic has shown how music can uplift one's health and wellbeing, help bond with others and offer several cognitive benefits for older adults, says the company

Outlaw Records founder Sandy Joia making people groove with his Punjabi Music

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A musical journey by road across the length and breadth of India

Amit Trivedi soaks in the acoustic legacy of five states, driving through each of them in a road trip spanning almost an year

A world of musical instruments for budding rock stars and culture vultures

Pick up an affordable, entry-level piece if you're just starting; as you progress over time, your teacher should be able to guide you on buying something more sophisticated and expensive

Musical mystery: How scientists completed Beethoven's unfinished symphony

Thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven's vision will come to life

Divyanshu Dixit takes over music space as true-blue producer of Loop Beats Records

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ABBA and the others: A season of returns & longing for a safer time

Nostalgia in the time of Covid-19 is proving to be big business

The unshakeable: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80

He joined the Stones early in 1963 and remained over the next 60 years, ranked just behind Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the group's longest lasting and most essential member.

Chinese regulator orders Tencent to give up exclusive music licensing

Meanwhile, experts believe that this development is another example of Beijing's crackdown on influential IT giants

We're back on the road: Rolling Stones revive US 'No Filter' tour

Tick­ets will go on sale July 30 for the new shows

YouTube Music adds 'Replay Mix' for most played songs

Google-owned YouTube Music has added "Replay Mix" for several users that include their most commonly played songs from the past few weeks.

IPV leads early-stage funding of Rs 3 cr in music learning startup Spardha

A few US-based HNIs also participated; firm offers personalised courses, has grown 10x in past 12 months of pandemic, with over 5,000 registered users and over 1,300 paid users in India and the US

Tuning into pain: How Begum Akhtar channeled her struggles into art

Book review of Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar

He didn't believe in incidental music: Shyam Benegal on Vanraj Bhatia

In a conversation with Ritwik Sharma, Benegal recalls their partnership and what made Bhatia a very special music director

Young, promising musician releases her debut album 'Intuition'

'So humbled to have received such a massive outpouring of love, appreciation and blessings on the successful launch of my maiden contemporary fusion album,' says Apoorva Krishna

The man who dared to give music another expression: OOKA

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Eddie Van Halen, rock legend and guitar hero, dies at 65

One of rock 'n' roll's singular and most gifted guitarists, Eddie Van Halen, has passed away aged 65