(celebrity.land)— About a month after turning 100, former president jimmy carter received his 10th Grammy Award nomination for his latest spoken-word album, “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration.”
The 10-track album features renditions of classic songs like “America the Beautiful” and “Amazing Grace” sung by Darius Rucker and LeAnn Rimes and includes recordings by Carter’s sunday school lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
The album, released by Virgin Music in August, addresses the importance of love, kindness, forgiveness and reconciliation, according to a press release.
“Let us celebrate and honor President Carter’s remarkable wisdom through the joyful power of music,” Kabir Sehgal, a longtime Carter family friend who orchestrated the music, said in a statement about the album’s release.
“His teachings have inspired us all. Music is a perfect medium to express the joy and gratitude we feel for him,” Sehgal added.
The nominees for 2025 Grammy Awards They were announced Friday morning.
The album would ensure Carter his fourth Grammy award and make him the oldest Grammy winner, a record currently held by blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, who won at age 97. according to the Los Angeles Times.
Carter’s most recent win came in 2019 at the 61st Annual Awards for her album “Faith – A Journey for All.” Carter won in the same category in 2016 for “A Full Life: Reflections on the Nineties” and in 2007 for “Our Values in Danger: America’s Moral Crisis.”
The 39th president of the United States faces tough competition this year. Barbra Streisand and Dolly Parton are also nominated in the Best Audiobook Recording, Storytelling and Narration category, as are American singer George Clinton and producer Guy Oldfield.
TO humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Carter is in palliative care and “arriving at the end”of his days, according to his family.
Carter became the oldest living president in history after George HW Bush died in 2018 at the age of 94. He has survived metastatic brain cancer, liver cancer and a host of health problems, including brain surgery after a fall in 2019. He entered palliative care in February 2023 after a series of hospital stays and underwent a rare public appearance to attend his wife’s funeral last year.
In recent years, Carter has continued talk about the risks to democracy around the world.
“I would like our presidential candidates to keep our country at peace and be defenders of human rights, environmental quality and equality,” Carter said on the album.
“Aren’t those things you wish you had? It puts the responsibility on us, as Americans, to improve our country by helping to give someone else a better life,” Carter said.
Before entering politics, Carter was a peanut farmer and a lieutenant in the United States Navy. The Democrat eventually served one term as governor of Georgia and president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
In his post-presidential years, Carter founded the Carter Center with his wife, Rosalynn, in hopes of promoting global peace and health. The center has worked over the years to promote democracy by monitoring foreign elections and reducing disease in developing countries.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote peace around the world.
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