NC’s Rhiannon Giddens wins Grammy Award. Here’s how other Triangle nominees did.

Greensboro native Rhiannon Giddens won a Grammy Award Sunday for Best Folk Album.

She was nominated with Francesco Turrisi for the album, “They’re Calling Me Home.” But Giddens lost Best American Roots Song to Jon Batiste and Steve McEwan, who won for “Cry.” Giddens, Turrisi and Justin Robinson were nominated for “Avalon.”

She’s one of several musical artists with North Carolina ties nominated for Grammy Awards. The ceremony for the 64th Grammy Awards is Sunday, and nominees have waited months to hear whether they will take home the music industry’s biggest awards. The ceremony was scheduled Jan. 31 but was rescheduled to April 3 because of COVID-19.

Awards were given in 86 categories with the majority of them given in a ceremony before the CBS broadcast hosted by Trevor Noah.

Giddens, who went to the N.C. School of Science and Math in Durham, has been nominated eight times and won in 2010 for Best Traditional Folk Album for “Genuine Negro Jig.” Giddens and Turrisi most recently were nominated in 2019 for Best American Roots Performance for “There is No Other.”

Of Triangle nominees, Durham jazz singer Nnenna Freelon and her son Pierce Freelon both earned nominations in two separate categories.

Nnenna Freelon, who has been nominated for several Grammys before, was nominated for her sixth career nomination for “Time Traveler” in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category.

Pierce Freelon was ominated for Best Children’s Album for “Black to the Future.” He also contributed a song on the Grammy-nominated album, “All One Tribe,” in the same category.

Here’s a look at how how North Carolina musicians fared in their respective categories.

Grammy winners with N.C. ties

▪ Best Dance/Electronic Music Album: “Free Love,” Sylvan Esso nominated.

Winner: “Subconsciously,” Black Coffee

▪ Best Progressive R&B Album: “Dinner Party: Dessert,” Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder & Kamasi Washington

Winner: “Table For Two,” Lucky Daye

▪ Best Rap Performance: “M Y . L I F E,” J. Cole Featuring 21 Savage & Morray

Winner: TBA

▪ Best Melodic Rap Performance: “P R I D E . I S . T H E . D E V I L,” J. Cole Featuring Lil Baby

Winner: “Hurricane,” Kanye West Featuring The Weeknd & Lil Baby

▪ Best Rap Song: “M Y . L I F E,” Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph & Jermaine Cole, songwriters (J. Cole Featuring 21 Savage & Morray)

Winner: “Jail,” Dwayne Abernathy, Jr., Shawn Carter, Raul Cubina, Michael Dean, Charles M. Njapa, Sean Solymar, Kanye West & Mark Williams, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Jay-Z)

▪ Best Rap Album: “The Off-Season,” J. Cole

Winner: “Call Me If You Get Lost,” Tyler, The Creator

▪ Best Country Solo Performance: “Forever After All,” Luke Combs

Winner: “You Should Probably Leave,” Chris Stapleton

▪ Best Jazz Vocal Album: “Time Traveler,” Nnenna Freelon

Winner: “Songwrights Apothecary Lab,” Esperanza Spalding

▪ Best Children’s Music Album:

• “Black To The Future,” Pierce Freelon

• “Activate,” 123 Andrés (Durham singer Rissi Palmer contributed “I Just Can’t Sit Down.”)
  
  

• “All One Tribe,” 1 Tribe Collective (Pierce Freelon contributed “Cootie Shot” and Palmer contributed “Little Black Boy, Little Black Girl.”)
  
  

Winner: “A Colorful World,” Falu