Iowa native Justin Roberts nominated for fourth Grammy Award for kids album 'Space Cadet'

Justin Roberts is no stranger to the Grammys.

The Des Moines native now living in Evanston, Illinois, has been nominated in the "Best Children's Music Album" category four times now: in 2010, 2013, 2018 and now this year.

This year's nomination is for his album "Space Cadet," and Roberts finds out Sunday if he'll have a Grammy to add to his fireplace mantel.

Roberts played a show in Des Moines last August and told the Des Moines Register that his most recent album, his first after a few years of fatherhood, was impacted by his own observations as a father.

"The advantage I found with having a kid now is sometimes I would get ideas from other people's kids and now I get ideas from my own," Roberts said. "It's fun to try songs out on him or just see how he responds to the material I've written."

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"Space Cadet" explores a variety of topics, from ADHD ("Every day he tried to explain / Words were swirling all around his head," he sings in the song "Truman Was a Tornado.") to inclusion. Roberts' music has been praised for approaching complicated concepts with compassion and creativity.

"It doesn't have to be super catchy and super simple and all of that stuff for a kid to like it," he told the Register in August. "It just has to tell a good story, it just has to be true."

This year's Grammy Awards ceremony televised broadcast starts at 7 p.m. CT on on CBS and Paramount+.

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