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[ad_1] Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor dies at 56 Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor dies at 56 00:46 Sinéad O'Connor 's death at her London home "is not being treated as suspicious," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement Thursday. The statement did not name O'Connor — a legendary Irish singer-songwriter known best for her hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" — in line with U.K. police protocols.  The London police's statement said "a 56-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene" at a south London residence Wednesday by officers responding to reports of "an unresponsive woman."

[ad_1] Victoria Monét is believed to be making history with her seven Grammy nominations — the most of an openly queer, Black woman artist in a single year. Her 2-year-old daughter, Hazel, is also breaking records as the youngest Grammy nominee ever with her nod for Best Traditional R&B Performance as a featured artist alongside Earth, Wind & Fire on Monét's hit song "Hollywood." When Monét heard her name among the 66th Annual Grammy Awards nominees , she was floored. "There wasn't even a break in between enough to digest the first one," Monét, 34, told "CBS Mornings" co-anchor Gayle King in an interview for the show's "Road to the Grammys" series. "I would've been enamored at one." Grammy nominations Monét is nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Jaguar II); Best R&B Album (Jaguar II); Best R&B Song ("On My Mama"); Best Traditional R&

[ad_1] Kim Petras and Sam Smith have become the first transgender and nonbinary winners of the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, respectively. The duo took home the award for their hit single, "Unholy," which they also performed during the awards ceremony. "Sam graciously wanted me to accept this award because I am the first transgender woman to to win this award," said Petras, who spoke on behalf of the duo during their acceptance speech , and was met with resounding applause from the audience. Smith is the first nonbinary winner of the award. "Unholy" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late October of last year, and spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Global 200 chart in 2022. It was the first number one hit for both artists, according to Billboard , and Smith and Petras were the first publicly nonbinary and transgender artsts to top the Hot 100. Kim Petras and

[ad_1] The Recording Academy are making several changes to the Grammy Awards, including a rule that stipulates "only human creators" can win the music industry's highest honor in a decision aimed at the use of artificial intelligence in popular music. "A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any category," they said, under new "Artificial Intelligence (AI) Protocols" released Friday. The rule was set following the semiannual academy's board of trustees meeting last month, where it was determined that work that features elements of AI are eligible, as long as a human creator is responsible for a "meaningful" contribution to the music and/or lyrics. "The human authorship component of the work submitted must be meaningful," the new requirements read in part. The news arrives shortly after Paul McCartney announced on Tuesday that a forthcoming "last Beatles