Former First Lady and best-selling author Michelle Obama just got a Grammy Awards nomination for her 2018 memoir ‘Becoming’.
Although she isn’t the First Lady anymore, 2019 has been a pretty good year for Michelle Obama. The Harvard graduate already has a lot of accolades under her belt. A couple of months back, she received the crown for the ‘World’s Most Admired Women’.
Winning the award for the Spoken Word category at next year’s 62nd Annual Grammy Awards would be great for Obama. It would add another accolade to the 55-year-old’s already expansive resume.
The audiobook version of Obama’s memoir will be up against the works of poetry, storytelling, and audiobooks.
Among the fellow nominees are members of the Beastie Boys, actor-director John Waters, poet Sekou Andrews, and musician Eric Alexandrakis.
Unsurprisingly, the Spoken Word category has a long history of political winners and nominees. This includes Michelle’s husband, President Barack Obama. In both 2006 and 2008, Barrack Obama won the category.
Apparently, Obama’s now Grammy-nominated book, Becoming, is on its way to becoming the best-selling memoir ever. According to its publisher Penguin House, it sold an excess of 10 million copies as of March this year.
This comes as Michelle Obama’s second nomination for the Recording Academy’s highest honor. In 2012, they named her on the ballot for her audiobook ‘American Grown’.
Michelle Obama is not the first First Lady to get a Grammy nomination. Back in 1997 and 2004, Hillary Clinton got nominations for her books. The former Presidential aspirant won in 1997.