BEST Song (written for visual media) : precursor for major ACADEMY AWARD consideration

 Song title - MOVIE / FILM - songwriter

"As Alive As You Need Me To Be" Tron: Ares   Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

"Golden"                KPop Demon Hunters    EJAE, Park Hong Jun, five others

"I Lied to You"     Sinners        Ludwig Goransson & Raphael Saadiq

"Never Too Late" Elton John documentary    Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin, others

"Pale, Pale Moon" Sinners    Ludwig Goransson & Brittany Howard

"Sinners" closing credit music Sinners    Rod Wave (rap & performance) Leonard Denisenko, Rodarius Green, Travis Harrington, Tarkan Kozluklu, Kyris Mingo, Darius Povliniunas

Best Compilation Soundtrack (GRAMMY AWARD Category): year eligible was Feb. 2025 to Jan. 2026

 Five VERY Different submitted

nominations

A Complete Unknown

F1: The Album

KPop Demon Hunters

Sinners (different artists)

Wicked: For Good

HOST (Trevor Noah) is also a nominee

 Category is:

BEST Audiobook, Narration, Storytelling

"Elvis, Rocky, & Me"    Kathy Garver

"Into the Uncut Grass"     Trevor Noah

"Lovely One: A Memoir" Ketanji Brown Jackson

"Meditations"    His Holiness the DALAI LAMA

"You Know It's True"    Fab Morvan

Best American Roots Performance (Grammy NEW CATEGORY) first to be presented 2/1/2026 8 p.m. CBS Program - Los Angeles, CA

 The nominated groups / duos / individual is/are:

"Lonely Avenue" Jon Batiste & Randy Newman

"Ancient Light"    I'm with her

"Crimson & Clay"    Jason Isbell

"Richmond on the James" Alison Krauss & Union Station

"Beautiful Strangers" Mavis Staples

Best R & B Performance (2/1/2026 GRAMMY Ceremony, 8 p.m.) tonight given LIVE

 "YUKON"     Jason Bieber [ born in Canada ]

"It Depends"     Chris Brown

"Folded"         Kehlani

"Mutt"            Leon Thomas

"Heart of a Woman"     Summer Walker

Best POP Solo Performance (award to be given during televised CBS Coverage)

 The nominees (Feb. 1, 2026) are:

"Daisies"    Justin Bieber

"Manchild"     Sabrina Carpenter

"Disease"    Lady Gaga

"The Subway"     Chappell Roan

"Messy"        Lola Young

BEST NEW ARTIST (category) and these Chart-Topping Celebrities Already pre-announced by GRAMMY Show producers

who will the 2026 GRAMMY

"BEST NEW ARTIST" (all to perform live Sunday 2/2/26)

Addison Rae

Alex Warren 

Olivia Dean

Sombr

Leon Thomas

GRAMMY ceremony performances by

Lady Gaga

Rose'

Tyler

The Creator

Sabrina Carpenter

Justin Bieber.

Lauryn Hill will honor

the deceased Roberta Flack.

Sunday Feb. 1, 2026

Stanford Lady Cardinals BB Team (ACC) -- to host Lady Irish (Univ. of Notre Dame, IN) - Sunday Feb. 1, 4 p.m. -- NCAA Women's Basketball

 NETWORK is CW

Sunday afternoon 

NCAA Women's BB Schedule

National Teams -

Stanford University, CALIFORNIA

v.

Univ. of Notre Dame, S. Bend, IN

Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D. -- pioneer historian

 Today marks the 100th anniversary

of the history-based

"THEME" Month of

Negro / Black /

Afro-American

History MONTH.

asalh.org

will hold programming

in the entire month of

FEBRUARY to celebrate:

a century of

BLACK HISTORY

commemorations!

Nominee for Best Audio Book, Narration -- GRAMMYs 2025 [ 364 days ago ]

grammy.com/artists/jimmy-carter/7405

Last Sundays in Plains:

a Centennial Celebration

Artist who recorded his

storytelling is

Jimmy Carter (b. 1924 -

died Dec. 29, 2024)

Funeral and burial at Plains,

GA on 9 January 2025

Additional update for 9th January

VP-Elect JD Vance resigns from U.S. Senate

and will await 11 days for next job as Trump's 2nd Vice

President -- CNN.com/politics/

JD-Vance-ohio-senate-seat-resign-vice-president.html

LAST YEAR [ Feb. 2, 2025 ] Grammy Win tonight for POTUS Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)

A Centennial Celebration

Ahead of the 8 - 11 p.m.

Eastern show, the Grammy

for Best spoken Album

went to Jimmy Carter

"Last Sundays in Plains".

Rest in strength and glory

POTUS 39 and Nobel Laureate!

This was Carter's 4th Grammy!

Harvey Mason, Jr.

 MEET the Grammy Awards chairman

Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences

Jan. 28, 2026

CNN article about the promise to America

of "medicine" this Sunday

cnn.com/2026/01/27/entertainment/grammys-2026-harvey-mason-minneapolis

feeling of unity and uplift

HOST will be 

internationally known talk show interviewer

TREVOR NOAH

February

 February (2nd month of the Year 2026)

Visits / views to this GOOGLE blog / online

record of my noted events / observations /

vantage points from my neighborhood, city,

region, county, state, country, hemisphere,

world, planetary/solar system, galaxy, universe

Last month Jan. 2026

39,886 visits; yesterday

Jan. 31 (single day) 1,798

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Feb.1 (Sunday)

Groundhog Day

Feb. 3

Feb. 4

Feb. 5

Feb. 6

Feb. 7

Feb. 8

National Pizza Day

Feb. 10

Feb. 11

Lincoln's Birthday

Friday the 13th

Valentine's Day

6th Sunday Epiphany

Presidents Day

Shrove Tuesday

Ash Wednesday

Feb. 19

Feb. 20

Feb. 21

Washington's Birthday (1832)