Monét is also nominated in these categories: Best R&B Song for “On My Mama”, Best R&B Performance for “How Does It Make You Feel”, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album categories. What’s more, she’ll compete in two of the four general field categories as she receives a coveted Best New Artist nomination while her hit song, “On My Mama,” lands in the Record of the Year tier. Colin Leonard, nominated as the mastering engineer of “On My Mama,” studied classical guitar at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
The most nominated artist this year, SZA, had some Bay Area magic on her album, too. Rob Bisel, who received three nominations as the songwriter, producer and engineer on SZA’s multiplatinum hit “Kill Bill,” was raised in Moraga and interned at Studio 880 in Oakland as a teen.
Raised 115 miles north of San Francisco in the rural town of Ukiah, Phoebe Bridgers netted seven nominations, including one for her own collaboration with SZA, “Ghost in the Machine.” Six additional nominations for her group Boygenius, including Album of the Year for The Record and Record of the Year for “Not Strong Enough,” brought Bridgers into a tie with Monét’s seven nominations.
With nine Grammy Awards earned over their decades-long career, iconic San Francisco-based band Metallica received three nominations in the rock and metal categories. The group released their eleventh studio album 72 Seasons earlier this year to positive critical reception. If they win in 2024, it will end the band’s unlucky streak, giving Metallica its first set of golden gramophones since 2009.
San Francisco Symphony conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen notched two nominations for the Best Orchestral Performance and Best Choral Performance categories for his recording of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” with the Symphony and the SF Symphony Chorus’ recording of Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s “Lux Aeterna,” respectively.
Molly Tuttle, who was born in Santa Clara and raised in Palo Alto, received a nod in the Best Bluegrass Album category with City of Gold, a project featuring her band Golden Highway. The album is partly an ode to Tuttle’s roots in California, with titles like “San Joaquin” and “Yosemite” on the tracklist.
Jeremy Cohen-led Quartet San Francisco’s “Cutey and the Dragon” got recognition in the Best Instrumental Composition category. While Cohen is a Bay Area musician, he is not credited as a composer, making him ineligible for a nomination in this field.
More nominees with Bay Area ties include:
Ray Keys, a songwriter on Coco Jones’ sultry hit “ICU,” was born in San José.
Rogét Chahayed, a songwriter on Doja Cat’s comeback single “Attention.” Chahayed attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied under professor Yoshikazu Nagai.
