Former President Jimmy Carter has gained a posthumous Grammy award.
Carter, the peanut farmer who gained the presidency within the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam Battle, died in December at age 100. Previous to his passing, Carter was nominated within the audiobook, narration, and storytelling recording class on the 2025 Grammys for “Final Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration,” recordings from his remaining Sunday Faculty classes delivered at Maranatha Baptist Church in Georgia. Musicians Darius Rucker, LeAnn Rimes, and Jon Batiste are featured on the file.
It’s Carter’s fourth Grammy. His posthumous Grammy joins his three earlier ones for spoken phrase album.
If the previous president gained earlier than his loss of life, he would’ve turn out to be the oldest Grammy award winner in historical past.
Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s grandson who now chairs The Carter Heart governing board, acquired the award on his behalf. “Having his phrases captured on this manner for my household and for the world is really exceptional,” he mentioned in an acceptance speech. “Thanks to the academy.”
Within the class, Jimmy Carter beat out Barbra Streisand, George Clinton, Dolly Parton, and producer Man Oldfield.
If Streisand gained as an alternative of Carter, it could have been her first Grammy win in 38 years.
At present, the oldest particular person to win a Grammy was 97-year-old Pinetop Perkins in 2011.
“He’s such an infinite music fan. He loves the inventive side of music,” Jason Carter mentioned backstage about his grandfather. “It’s been an essential a part of his political life, an essential a part of his private life. He’s an artist in some ways.”
Former presidents Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton have two Grammys apiece. First women Michelle Obama and Hilary Clinton have additionally every gained.
Former presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon have been all nominated, however didn’t win.
AP Leisure Writers Andrew Dalton and Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.
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—Maria Sherman, AP Music Author
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