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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has received a posthumous Grammy award.

Carter, the peanut farmer who received the presidency within the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, died in December at age 100.

Prior to his passing, Carter was nominated within the audio guide, narration, and storytelling recording class on the 2025 Grammys for “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration,” recordings from his remaining Sunday School classes delivered at Maranatha Baptist Church in Georgia. Musicians Darius Rucker, Lee Ann Rimes and Jon Batiste are featured on the report.

It’s Carter’s fourth Grammy. His posthumous Grammy joins his three earlier ones for spoken phrase album.

Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award.
Former President Jimmy Carter has received a posthumous Grammy award.

If the previous president received 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 Center governing board, acquired the award on his behalf. “Having his words captured in this way for my family and for the world is truly remarkable,” he mentioned in an acceptance speech. “Thank you to the academy.”

In the class, Jimmy Carter beat out Barbra Streisand, George Clinton, Dolly Parton and producer man Oldfield. If Streisand received as an alternative of Carter, it could have been her first Grammy win in 38 years. Currently, the oldest individual to win a Grammy was 97-year-old Pinetop Perkins in 2011.

Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s grandson who now chairs The Carter Center governing board, received the award on his behalf.
Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s grandson who now chairs The Carter Center governing board, acquired the award on his behalf.

“He’s such an enormous music fan. He loves the creative aspect of music,” Jason Carter mentioned backstage about his grandfather. “It’s been an important part of his political life, an important part of his personal life. He’s an artist in many ways.”

Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have two Grammys apiece. First girls Michelle Obama and Hilary Clinton have additionally every received.

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Former presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon had been all nominated, however didn’t win.

AP Entertainment Writers Andrew Dalton and Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.

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