With a record number of nominations, our clients wrote, produced, or otherwise contributed to 12 titles that won in 13 categories — including Best R&B Album, Best Alternative Music Album, Best Contemporary Blues Album, Best Reggae Album, Best Americana Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Opera Recording, Best Rock Performance, Best American Roots Performance, Best American Roots Song, Best Improvised Jazz Solo, and Best Music Video.
Grammy-winner Brandi Carlile performed John Prine’s posthumously-released “I Remember Everything,” which received awards for Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song, in memoriam to the late folk hero. Last year, the Grammys honored Prine with a lifetime achievement award shortly before his passing.
Big Yellow Dog's Maren Morris also performed her Best Country Song-nominated single "The Bones" with John Mayer.
The following clients contributed to the 2021 Grammy-winning works listed below (recording artists appear in parenthesis if different from our clients or their writers):
Cautious Clay
Best R&B Album: Bigger Love (John Legend)
Dez Wright
Best Latin Pop or Urban Album: YHLQMDLG (Bad Bunny)
DuBose & Dorothy Heyward
Best Opera Recording: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera)
Fiona Apple
Best Alternative Music Album: Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Best Rock Performance: "Shameika"
George Gershwin
Best Opera Recording: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera)
John Leventhal
Best Americana Album: World On The Ground (Sarah Jarosz)
John Prine
Best American Roots Performance: "I Remember Everything"
Best American Roots Song: "I Remember Everything"
Miles Davis
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Trilogy 2 (Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: "All Blues" (Chick Corea)
Picadilly Music
Toots Hibbert
Best Reggae Album: Got To Be Tough (Toots & The Maytals)
Position Music
Fantastic Negrito
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Have You Lost Your Mind yet?
Ryan Tedder
Best R&B Album: Bigger Love (John Legend)
Sheer Music*
Anatii
Best Music Video: "BROWN SKIN GIRL" (Beyoncé)
Zach Skelton
Best R&B Album: Bigger Love (John Legend)
*Downtown Music Holdings announced the acquisition of Sheer Music Publishing (a long-standing Downtown Music Publishing client) in 2020
