Artist nominated for major Grammy ditches award show last minute with message about wildfires

On the time earlier the Grammy Awards, Andre 3000 announced that helium would nary longer beryllium successful attendance.

The 49-year-old rapper and singer-songwriter has had an unthinkable twelvemonth with his deed medium New Blue Sun

This medium has been nominated for 3 awards; the champion medium of the year, the champion alternate jazz album, and the opus I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time has been nominated for champion instrumental composition.

But contempt 3 nominations, the vocalist won’t beryllium astir to cod these awards if helium does so triumph connected Sunday night.

Taking to social media, the creator revealed that helium was pulling retired of the show, seemingly alluding to the wildfires that swept crossed LA past month.

‘Unfortunately, I’m not capable to be the Grammys time but immoderate of the New Blue Sun musicians, friends and supporters volition beryllium successful attendance.

‘Our medium was conceived and recorded successful Los Angeles with the tone of openness and originative collaboration. We anticipation that the rebound of Los Angeles is swift and renewing,’ helium said referencing the wildfires that tore done LA.

‘Congrats to each the musicians and collaborators being acknowledged. Keep playing. A.3000,’ concluded the message.

The artist, whose existent sanction is André Lauren Benjamin, is nary alien to the awards show, having already won 9 awards antecedently and nominated for 28.

The creator has had a agelong vocation and was nominated for his archetypal Grammy in1999 for Rosa Parks, a opus with his erstwhile signing spouse Big Boi (Antwan Patton) erstwhile they formed the radical Outkast.

Andre made headlines past twelvemonth erstwhile helium appeared astatine a performance and decided to bark and talk successful a made-up language’ alternatively than sing.

During his acceptable at All Points East festival successful East London, the rapper-turned-flutist did not rap a azygous verse. Instead, helium played a bid of flute compositions and adjacent began barking astatine 1 point.

Fans were wholly baffled by this move, but inactive applauded his latest EP released successful November 2024, Moving Day.

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