A Persona 5 jazz cover is up for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals at the Grammys, but it has to beat John Legend and Willow Smith to get it.
The 8-Bit Big Band is up for a Grammy for their cover of ‘Last Surprise’, Persona 5‘s main battle theme, so it’s a song people hear often during a playthrough.
As reported by PC Gamer, this isn’t the first time The 8-Bit Big Band has been nominated for a Grammy, having previously won Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for their cover of ‘Meta Knight’s Revenge’ from Kirby Super Star.
The band tweeted, “WOW WE JUST GOT OUR 2nd GRAMMY NOMINATION!! So thrilled to be nominated along side my harmonic bro in crime @Button__Masher for our co-arrangement of “Last Surprise” from Persona 5 composed by the incredible @s_megarock
aka Shoji Meguro!! LONG LIVE VIDEO GAME MUSIC!!!”
Ther Persona series is known for its jazzy soundtracks, and Persona 5 has been nominated for music awards before. The cover makes the song even jazzier and the video accomapanies it with some 8-bit sound effects and graphics from the game.
The 8-Bit Band is up against some stiff competition. Competing in the same category are Cody Fry Featuring Sleeping at Last for ‘The Sound of Silence’, John Legend with ‘Always Come Back’, Säje Featuring Regina Carter for ‘Alma’, and Willow with ‘Big Feelings’.
There’s also a category for best video game music, and the nominees are Bear McCreary and God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla, John Paesano for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Pinar Toprak and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Wilbert Roget II with Star Wars Outlaws, and Winifred Phillips for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
If you want to hear more music from the Persona series, the soundtracks from Persona 5 Royal and Strikers are both on Spotify.
If you want to see the full list of Grammys nominations, you can read it right here.
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