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unusual facts about Best New Artist



Gregory Euclide

In 2011, Euclide collaborated with the Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to create the band's acclaimed album artwork for their 2011 album Bon Iver, winner of the Grammy for Best New Artist.


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B.A.D

That album, All I..., earned a Best Group Award at the 13th Golden Melody Awards and a nomination for Best New Artist at the 8th CMA Awards.

Get Back Loretta

They have received San Diego Music Awards including "Best New Artist" in 2005, "Best Pop" in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and "Best Pop Album" in 2007 for "Over The Wall".

Ilid Kaolo

She won the Best New Artist, Best Aboriginal Singer, and Best Aboriginal Album at the 23rd Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan with her debut album, My Carefree Life (輕快的生活), in which Kaolo wrote every song on the album.

Jennifer Paige

Paige toured the world, sang for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, was nominated for Best New Artist and performed at the World Music Awards, while promoting her music.

Lala Hsu

She won the Best New Artist award at the 2010 Golden Melody Awards and was crowned the champion for Taiwan's famous singing competition One Million Star.

Marisa Guterman

She was named one of "30 Under 30: Musicians to Know," along with Grammy Best New Artist winner Esperanza Spalding, following a worldwide search by

Mingma Sherpa

The following year he was honored with the "Dhuk Dhuki" in the city of Pokhara and was nominated in the Image award as "Best New Artist."

Ms. Triniti

E-Dee, became a number 5 hit on Jamaica’s Top 30 Singles chart in 2007 and earned her the Nomination for ‘Best New Artist’ at Jamaica’s EME awards.

Reggie Benjamin

In May 2005 he was invited to sing the national anthem at a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game and he was nominated at the 2006 Black Music Awards for Best New Artist and Best Neo-Soul Song.

Sidewalk Prophets

They have toured with Jeremy Camp and Audio Adrenaline on the strength of independent albums, then rode the popularity of their first Word Records release, These Simple Truths, to a Dove Award for Best New Artist and a nomination for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year.

The Colourist

The following year, the band performed at South By Southwest 2010 in Austin, Texas, were recommended for the 2010 OC Music Awards as Best Song and Best New Artist, and took the title of Best Live Band in the Best of 2010 issue for Weekly.

The Defog

As well as being in the running for 5 Grammy Nominations by Big Noise, including Best New Artist, the tracks "Downstream" and "Calibrated" were featured on MTV's "The Real World" as well as the MTV show "Meet the Barkers."

Tony Meléndez

He received the Branson Entertainment Award for Best New Artist in 1999, the "Inspirational Hero Award from the NFL Alumni Association at the Super Bowl XXIII and has received special commendations from the State of California for his work with young people and from President Reagan, regarding Tony "as a positive role model for America".

Yodelice

Yodelice was awarded the best new artist prize during the 2010 Victoires de la Musique.