Beyoncé, Post Malone and all the Texans who were nominated for 2025 Grammy Awards

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- One of the most prestigious awards musicians can earn is a Grammy, and many artists consider even receiving a nomination a huge honor.

Texas, a state known for its pride, can claim several musicians who could go home with a gramophone trophy after the 67th annual award ceremony in February -- including the most Grammy-decorated artist of all time: Beyoncé.

With the 2025 nominations, which were announced in November, the Houston native set new records. Beyoncé in 2023 secured the honor of becoming the artist with the most Grammy wins ever (32 total, by the way), but this year she set a new one-year record for a woman artist AND became the most Grammy-nominated artist ever.

Beyoncé led the 2025 Grammy Award nominations with 11 nods, which according to Billboard is a new one-year record for a woman artist. She also pulled out of a tie with her husband Jay-Z to become the sole artist with the most nominations ever. She now has a total of 99, previously tied with Jay-Z at 88 nods each.

Another Texas native tied with three other artists for the second-highest number of Grammy nominations this year. Dallas area native Post Malone racked in seven nominations for the 2025 Grammys, right alongside Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, and Kendrick Lamar, who each had seven nods as well.

Both Beyoncé and Post Malone waded into the Recording Academy's country categories for the first time this year, having both put out their first country music albums; “Cowboy Carter”  and  “F-1 Trillion”, respectively.

The two collaborated on the "Cowboy Carter" track "Levii’s Jeans," earning them a co-nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Aside from Beyoncé and Post Malone, who are two of the biggest names in music this decade, there are several other Texas artists who were recognized by the Recording Academy for their work and nominated for Grammys.

Here's a comprehensive list of Grammy-nominated artists with Texas roots:

Beyoncé

Born in Houston as Beyoncé Giselle Knowles on Sept. 4, 1981, per Britannica.
Nominations:
Record of the Year - Texas Hold Em; 
Album of the Year - Cowboy Carter; 
Song of the Year - Texas Hold Em; 
Best Pop Solo Performance - Bodyguard; 
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance - LEVII'S JEANS Featuring Post Malone; 
Best Melodic Rap Performance - "SPAGHETTII" Featuring Linda Martell & Shaboozey; 
Best Country Solo Performance - 16 Carriages; 
Best Country Duo/Group Performance - "II MOST WANTED" Featuring Miley Cyrus; 
Best Country Song - TEXAS HOLD 'EM; 
Best Country Album - COWBOY CARTER; 
Best Americana Performance - YA YA

Post Malone

Post Malone was born in Syracuse, New York as Austin Richard Post on July 4, 1995, and moved to Grapevine at the age of nine, according to IMDb.
Nominations:
Record Of The Year - "Fortnight" – Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone; 
Song Of The Year - "Fortnight" — Jack Antonoff, Austin Post & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone); 
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance - "LEVII'S JEANS" — Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone; 
Best Country Duo/Group Performance - "I Had Some Help" — Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen; 
Best Country Song - "I Had Some Help" — Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Morgan Wallen & Chandler Paul Walters, songwriters (Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen); 
Best Country Album - F-1 Trillion — Post Malone; 
Best Music Video - "Fortnight" — Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone

Post Malone's "F-1 Trillion" was also nominated under Field 9: Package, Notes & Historical for Best Recording Package, with the following credits: Archie Lee Coates IV, Jeffrey Franklin, Blossom Liu, Kylie McMahon & Ana Cecilia Thompson Motta, art directors (Post Malone).

Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves was born in 1988 in Golden. She has been nominated for 17 Grammys and won seven so far. This year, she had four nominations and was credited on a fifth for a feature on a performance with Madi Diaz.
Nominations:
Best Country Solo Performance - "The Architect";
Best Country Song - "The Architect";
Best Country Album - Deeper Well;
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - Deeper Well

Musgraves was also credited on Madi Diaz's nomination for Best Americana Performance for "Don't Do Me Good" — Madi Diaz Featuring Kacey Musgraves.

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally, the 50-year-old songwriter from Mineral Wells, was nominated along with Musgraves for Best Country Song for "The Architect."

Khruangbin

Khruangbin is a three-piece band from Houston consisting of Laura Lee, Mark Speer, and Donald Johnson, according to Music Mil.
Nominations: Best New Artist

Edgar Barrera

Producer and songwriter Edgar Barrera was born in McAllen and raised between the Lone Star state and the Mexican border town of Miguel Alemán, according to the Grammys website. He is 34 years old.
Nominations: Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical. His credits include the following, per the Grammys website: "Atención" (Ivan Cornejo) (T); "(Entre Paréntesis)" (Shakira & Grupo Frontera) (T); "It Was Always You (Siempre Fuiste Tú)" (Carin León & Leon Bridges) (S); "No Se Vale" (Camilo) (T); "The One (Pero No Como Yo)" (Carin León & Kane Brown) (S); "POR EL CONTRARIO" (Becky G With Ángela Aguilar, Leonardo Aguilar) (T); "Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido" (Karol G) (S); "Sincere" (Khalid) (T); "TOMMY & PAMELA" (Peso Pluma & Kenia Os) (T)

Usher

Usher was born as Usher Terry Raymond IV on Oct. 14, 1978, in Dallas, according to Britannica.
Nominations: Best R&B Album - COMING HOME — Usher

Erykah Badu

Born as Erica Wright in Dallas on Feb. 26, 1971, according to Britannica.
Nominations: Best Melodic Rap Performance - "3:AM" — Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu

Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper is a jazz pianist from Houston, according to Blue Note Records. He was born in 1978 and has won five Grammys out of 15 nominations so far.
Nominations: Best Alternative Jazz Album - Code Derivation

Rudy Royston

Rudy Royston was born in Fort Worth and raised in Denver, Colorado where he became a drummer, studied classical percussion, and later became a teacher, according to All About Jazz.
Nominations: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album - Orchestras (Live) — Bill Frisell Featuring Alexander Hanson, Brussels Philharmonic, Rudy Royston & Thomas Morgan

Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay & Matt Hinkley

Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay are from Magnolia and make up the American folk duo Jamestown Revival, and Matt Hinkley is from Midland. The three were credited as principal vocalists in "The Outsiders" musical.
Nominations: Best Musical Theater Album - The Outsiders — Joshua Boone, Brent Comer, Brody Grant & Sky Lakota-Lynch, principal vocalists; Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay, Matt Hinkley, Justin Levine & Lawrence Manchester, producers; Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay & Justin Levine, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds formed in 1974 in Texas. Throughout its lifespan, the group has been nominated for four Grammys. If they win one this year, it'd be their first.
Nominations: Best American Roots Performance - "Nothing In Rambling"
Best Traditional Blues Album - Struck Down  

Sarah Jarosz

Austin native Sarah Jarosz is a 33-year-old multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter who is known for her work in the folk and Americana genres. To date, she has 12 Grammy nominations and four wins.
Nominations: Best Americana Performance - "Runaway Train" 
Best Americana Album - Polaroid Lovers

Charley Crockett

Charley Crockett, a 36-year-old originally from San Benito, secured his first Grammy nomination with his album "$10 Cowboy," which was recorded in Austin, according to All Music. It's one of two albums he released in 2024.
Nominations: Best Americana Album - $10 Cowboy

Ruthie Foster

Ruthie Foster was born in 1964 in Gause, located about an hour and a half drive northeast of Austin. Foster secured her sixth-ever Grammy nomination for her 10th studio album "Mileage." It'll be her first Grammy if she wins the category.
Nominations: Best Contemporary Blues Album - Mileage

Yolanda Adams

Houston native gospel singer Yolanda Adams secured her 15th Grammy nomination for her single "Church Doors" off of her September 2024 album "Sunny Days." The 63-year-old has four Grammy wins so far.
Nominations: Best Gospel Performance/Song - "Church Doors"

Rickey “Slikk Muzik” Offord

Music producer Rickey Offord, known as "Slikk Muzik," is from the Dallas area and is a Texas A&M University alum, according to his Facebook page. The Grammys website lists one nomination for Offord, but an Instagram post he made on Nov. 8 stated that he worked on three different projects nominated for the 2025 awards.
Nominations: Best Gospel Performance/Song - "Holy Hands" — DOE
Offord noted on social media two other nominations: Best Tropical Latin Album - Bailar — Sheila E., and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Heart Of A Human — DOE

Brandon Lake

Brandon Lake, a 31-year-old Christian singer, was born in Dallas and grew up on the coast of South Carolina, where he is now a worship pastor at Seacoast Church, according to All Music.
Nominations: Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - "Praise" — Elevation Worship Featuring Brandon Lake, Chris Brown & Chandler Moore
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Coat Of Many Colors

Kirk Franklin

Arguably one of the most famous gospel singers ever hails from Fort Worth. Kirk Franklin, the 54-year-old renowned leader of urban contemporary gospel music, got his 32nd Grammy nomination this year. He has a total of 20 wins so far
Nominations: Best Gospel Album - Father's Day

Forrest Frank

According to his bio on Apple Music, Forrest Frank grew up in the Houston area until he attended Baylor University in Waco, where he met fellow Texas musician Colin Padalecki and started making music with him. This is the first Grammy nomination for the 29-year-old.
Nominations: Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Child Of God

Sarah & Shauna Dodds/William Clark Green

Shauna and Sarah Dodds are sisters and co-founders of Backstage Design Studio – a creative collective headquartered in Austin, per its website. The pair designed the artwork for William Clark Green's album "Baker Hotel," which was nominated for Best Recording Package. Green hails from Flint, Texas.
Nominations: Best Recording Package - Baker Hotel — Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (William Clark Green)

Michael League

Michael League, a 40-year-old alumnus of the University of North Texas’ College of Music, is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He's also one of the founding members of Snarky Puppy, an instrumental jazz fusion band that formed in 2004 at UNT's Jazz Studies program. League currently lives in Spain.
Nominations: Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella - "Baby Elephant Walk - Encore" — Michael League, arranger (Snarky Puppy)

Scott Hoying

Scott Hoying, known for being one of the members of Pentatonix, was born in Arlington, Texas in 1991, according to IMDb. The 33-year-old was nominated along with a few other artists for his song "Rose Without The Thorns."
Nominations: Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella - "Rose Without The Thorns" — Erin Bentlage, Alexander Lloyd Blake, Scott Hoying, A.J. Sealy & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Scott Hoying Featuring säje & Tonality)

The Miró Quartet

Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet is currently comprised of faculty members of the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin: Daniel Ching, William Fedkenheuer, John Largess, and Joshua Gindele. Since 2003, the Miró has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin, according to its website.
Nominations: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance - "Home" — Miró Quartet

Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw is well-known in the world of contemporary classical music world for her work as a producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Originally from North Carolina and now based in New York City, she's an alumna of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music; she earned a Bachelor of Music in 2004, according to Rice. Shaw was the 2013 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, has an honorary doctorate from Yale, and so far has four Grammys under her belt.
Nominations: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance - "Rectangles and Circumstance" — Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion

Blanton Alspaugh

Blanton Alspaugh, another alumnus of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, is a Massachusetts-based classical music producer with 11 Grammy Awards to his name so far, according to Rice. Alspaugh studied orchestral conducting and received a Master of Music from Rice in 1987. He's credited in two nominations this year.
Nominations: Best Opera Recording - "Moravec: The Shining" — Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Tristan Hallett, Kelly Kaduce & Edward Parks; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Kansas City Symphony; Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Chorus)
Best Classical Compendium - American Counterpoints — Curtis Stewart; James Blachly, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer

Sangeeta Kaur and Hai Nguyen

Austin-based opera singer Sangeeta Kaur and her husband Hai Nguyen both worked on the album "MYTHOLOGIES II" by composer Danaë Xanthe Vlasse. The album is a sequel to the Grammy-winning chamber album MYTHOLOGIES (2021). Sangeeta is a member of the Austin Opera Board of Trustees and is the owner of the recording studio, Studio Hill in Austin, according to her website.
Nominations: Best Classical Compendium - Mythologies II — Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse; Michael Shapiro, conductor; Jeff Atmajian, Emilio D. Miler, Hai Nguyen, Robert Thies, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse & Kitt Wakeley, producers

67th Annual Grammy Awards

The 67th annual Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The award ceremony will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.

Following devastating wildfires in LA, the Recording Academy has refocused Grammy-related events to help support relief efforts, following suit with other institutions that canceled their plans — Universal Music Group, BMG and Warner Music Group among them — and are instead opting to allocate resources to wildfire relief and rebuilding efforts, according to reporting from the Associated Press.

The Recording Academy's Voting Members, composed of music creators, including artists, producers, songwriters, and engineers determine the GRAMMY winners across all categories revealed on GRAMMY night, according to its website.

For eligibility for the 67th Grammys, recordings must have been released between Sept. 16, 2023, and Aug. 30, 2024. Final Round Voting happened from Dec. 12, 2024, to Jan. 3, 2025.