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For Your Consideration: Timeless Voices and Future Visions at the GRAMMY® Awards
For your consideration at the GRAMMY® Awards: Randy Edelman brings two entries that showcase the breadth of his craft—21 Again/Coming of Age in Pop Solo Performance, and the beautifully sculpted Pat Wants To Know in Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals—proof that elegance and emotional clarity can still stop time. Irene Michaels, joined by Twizm Whyte Piece, lights up Dance/Electronic Recording with My Heart, a pulse-driven track that marries sophistication with sheer lift.
Siphia steps boldly into Dance/Electronic Recording with Paradise Now, a future-facing anthem where human storytelling and cutting-edge production meet in a single, surging breath. Chris Pati’s Shine A Light enters Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals with luminous writing that lets every line sing and every instrument speak.
Quinn Lemley’s Rita Hayworth Revealed celebrates the golden era while sounding vibrantly present—submitted for Jazz Vocal Album and Large Jazz Ensemble Album, with a spotlight Jazz Performance for That’s All and a gleaming Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals entry for Blue Pacific Blues (arrangements by Tedd Firth and Tom Wilson). Rachael Cain and the iconic Trax Records submit for Album of the Year—a historic banner for the house-music lineage that reshaped global dance culture and still drives the heartbeat of modern pop.
These submissions span legends and innovators, torch songs and neon beats, intimate arrangements and widescreen vision—artists united by craft, courage, and songs that stay with you long after the last note fades. For your consideration.
Paulino is preparing to release what promises to be one of the most heartfelt and spellbinding Americana songs of the year — “A Reason to Stay.” Steeped in sincerity, emotion, and poetic reflection, the track feels less like a song and more like a conversation between the heart and the horizon — a timeless story told through melody, truth, and the ache of love that lingers.
With his signature blend of folk authenticity and cinematic soul, Paulino paints with sound — acoustic guitars glowing like embers, a voice weathered yet warm, and lyrics that move through the air like fireflies on a dusky Southern evening. “A Reason to Stay” feels as though it was born in the space between longing and hope, where every note carries a whisper of memory and every word a reason not to let go.
Paulino’s music has always captured the beauty in stillness — the quiet moments between joy and sorrow where life reveals its most fragile truths. This new release expands that emotional palette, balancing a raw intimacy with the kind of wide-open atmosphere that defines Americana at its most powerful. It’s music for the road, for the soul, and for the quiet hours when you’re searching for yourself in the echoes of another’s goodbye.
As the first notes of “A Reason to Stay” unfold, listeners are pulled into Paulino’s world — a place where heartbreak finds healing, and every chord reminds us that even when the road ahead is uncertain, the journey itself is what gives us a reason to stay.
A release date announcement is expected soon, but one thing is already clear: Paulino’s “A Reason to Stay” is destined to leave a lasting mark — a song that doesn’t just play, it lingers.
The official website for Paulino may be found at https://paulinosings.com/
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