Former President Jimmy Carter's potential Grammy win for 'Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration' will now be posthumous after his death.
Former President Jimmy Carter was a late-comer to Grammy glory. He was 82 when he won his first Grammy . He had lost on his first three tries. Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration. Carter had seemed likely to set a new record as the oldest Grammy winner in history. Now, if he wins, the award will be posthumous. Technically, the oldest recipient will continue to be blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, who was 97 years and 221 days old on Feb.
13, 2011 when he won best traditional blues album for a collab with Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, a blues harmonica player. (Perkins died about six weeks later, on March 21, 2011.) Oldfield, 55, is the only nominee in this category who’s under 75. Parton is 78, Streisand is 82 and Clinton is 83. This will likely be Carter’s fourth win in this category, which will enable him to break out of a tie with poet Maya Angelou for the most wins in the category. Carter won in 2007 for Carter was a late-comer to Grammy glory. He was 82 when he won his first Grammy. He had lost on his first three tries. Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration. (He died in 1996.) Fourth-oldest is Carter, who was 94 and 132 days old in 2019 when he won best spoken word album fo
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