September 20, 2024

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Bengaluru-based Ricky Kej wins 2d Grammy

By means of PTI

LOS ANGELES: Track composer Ricky Kej, founded out of Bengaluru, has received his 2d Grammy in the most productive new album class for ‘Divine Tides’.

America-born musician shared the award with Stewart Copeland, the drummer of the enduring British rock band The Police, who collaborated with Kej at the album.

On the sixty fourth Grammy Awards rite, held at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Marquee Ballroom, Kej greeted the audiences with a namaste when he took the level with Copeland to obtain the distinguished gramophone.

The song composer later shared a put up on Instagram expressing his gratitude for his 2d win.

“So thankful to have received the Grammy Award for our album ‘Divine Tides’. Completely love this living-legend status subsequent to me – Stewart Copeland. Love all of you too! That is my 2d Grammy Award and Stewart’s sixth,” he wrote along an image with Copeland.

In 2015, Kej took house a Grammy in the most productive new age album class for ‘Winds of Samsara’.

Copeland’s earlier Grammy wins got here as a part of his paintings with The Police in classes similar to perfect rock instrumental efficiency (“Reggatta de Blanc”, “At the back of My Camel”), perfect rock efficiency through a bunch with vocal (“Do not Stand So Shut To Me”, “Synchronicity”), and perfect pop efficiency through a bunch with vocal for “Each and every Breath You Take”.

In step with its authentic web page, ‘Divine Tides’ is a nine-song album that objectives to ship the message that “each and every particular person lifestyles performs a a very powerful position in keeping up the stability that serves all similarly”.

In the meantime, New York-based Indian singer Falguni Shah additionally did the rustic proud on the 2022 Grammys.

Recognized through her level title Falu, Shah earned her first Grammy Award for ‘A Colourful Global’ in the most productive kids’s album class.