Jimmy Carter Nominated for 10th Grammy Award Nearly 21 Months After Beginning Hospice Care

Mar. 15, 2025

Jimmy Carter in 2018.Photo:Drew Angerer/Getty

Drew Angerer/Getty

Jimmy Carterhas earned his 10th Grammy nomination at 100 years old.

On Friday, Nov. 8, the Recording Academy announced that the former president was nominated in the best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording category for his recordLast Sundays in the Plains: A Centennial Celebration.

This nomination marks his 10th nomination and it makes him a record-breaker. At 100 years old, he has become the oldest Grammy nominee of all time, per theBBC.

“What an honor!” the Carter Foundationwrote in a post shared to X(formerly Twitter) announcing the nomination.

Carter has won three Grammys, all in the best spoken word album category. He scored wins forFaith - A Journey For All(2018),A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety(2015) andOur Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis(2005).

The cover of ‘Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration.’.

The project’s producer, Kabir Sehgal, previously toldGeorgia Public Broadcastingthat it “is really a final culmination of President Carter’s Sunday school lessons for years, for decades.”

“He taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. And I was blessed to see [his Sunday School class in person],” Sehgal said in October.

The former president’s prayers and lessons recorded for the album reflect on several topics, including the current political climate of the U.S.

Carter in 2016.Neil Hall-WPA Pool/Getty

Neil Hall-WPA Pool/Getty

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The news of Carter’s nomination also comes 21 months after heentered hospice care. Though he made arare public appearanceat his late wifeRosalynn Carter’s funeral last November, Carter is “physically limited” and spends his time at home with loved ones.

“This is animportant part of his faith journey, and it’s one that you don’t get to experience at any other time in your life except for the very end,” his grandson Jason Carter toldPEOPLEin September 2023, a few months after his grandfather entered hospice. “And so in that way, I think this has been a really meaningful time for him, and it’s been a really reflective time for him.”

The 67th Grammy Awards is set to take place live in Los Angeles at the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.

source: people.com