50th Annual GRAMMY® Awards – Nominations for Christian/Gospel Music

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Nominations for the 50th Annual GRAMMY® Awards were announced December 6th. Artists reading nominations included Akon, Chester Bennington (of Linkin Park), Fergie, Vince Gill, Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Jam, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), George Lopez, Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park) and Taylor Swift.

The 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on "GRAMMY Sunday," Feb. 10, 2008, at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

GRAMMY ballots for the final round of voting will be mailed on Dec. 12 to the voting members of The Recording Academy. They are due back to the accounting firm of Deloitte by Jan. 9, 2008, when they will be tabulated and the results kept secret until the telecast.

Below are nominations in the Christian/gospel music categories.

Best Gospel Performance
(For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.)

• East To West
  Casting Crowns
  Track from: The Altar And The Door
  [Beach Street Records/Reunion Records]
  
  
• Blessed & Highly Favored
  The Clark Sisters
  Track from: Live - One Last Time
  [EMI Gospel]
  
  
• Never Gonna Break My Faith
  Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige (Featuring The Harlem Boys Choir)
  Track from: Bobby: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  [Island Def Jam]
  
  
• With Long Life
  Israel And New Breed Featuring T-Bone
  Track from: A Deeper Level
  [Integrity Music]
  
  
• He Set My Life To Music
  CeCe Winans
  Track from: She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - A Tribute To Barbara Mandrell
  [BNA Records]
  

Best Gospel Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

• Blessed & Highly Favored
  Karen Clark-Sheard, songwriter (The Clark Sisters)
  Track from: Live - One Last Time
  [EMI Gospel; Publisher: K. Sheard's Melody]
  
  
• East To West
  Mark Hall & Bernie Herms, songwriters (Casting Crowns)
  Track from: The Altar And The Door
  [Beach Street Records/Reunion Records; Publishers: Club Zoo Music, Sparrow Song, Swecs Music, Banahama Tunes/Word Music]
  
  
• Encourage Yourself
  Donald Lawrence, songwriter (Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers)
  Track from: The Grand Finale: Encourage Yourself
  [EMI Gospel; Publishers: QW Songs/Zomba Publishing]
  
  
• Made To Love
  Cary Barlowe, Toby McKeehan, Jamie Moore & Aaron Rice, songwriters (TobyMac)
  Track from: Portable Sounds
  [ForeFront Records; Publishers: Achtober Songs/Emack Music/Lowe Bar Music/Jammu Music/Rizzle Music]
  
  
• Praise On The Inside
  James L. Moss, songwriter (J. Moss)
  [Gospo Centric; Publisher: Millenni-era Music]
  

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