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23 Full Sail graduates were credited on 12 GRAMMY-winning releases.

Full Sail University is proud to announce that Recording Arts graduate Brad Blackwood received a GRAMMY® Award for Best Engineered Album in the Non Classical category for Alison Krauss & Union Station's album Paper Airplane at the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards, which aired live on CBS Sunday, February 12, 2012.

During the ceremony, 71 graduates were credited on 52 GRAMMY®-nominated projects across 38 categories. Highlights include:

• 3 Recording Arts graduates worked on Taylor Swift's Mean, winner for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song.
• 4 Recording Arts graduates were featured on Kirk Franklin's Hello Fear, which won for Best Gospel Album.
• Additional alumni were also credited on the winners for Best Reggae Album (Stephen Marley – Revelation Pt 1: The Root of Life), Best Musical Theater Album (The Book of Mormon, Original Broadway Cast), and Best Latin Pop, Rock, or Urban Album (Mana – Drama y Luz).
• 3 Recording Arts graduates contributed to Chris Brown's F.A.M.E., winner of Best R&B Album.
• Graduate Graham Marsh worked as engineer on Cee Lo Green's single Fool For You, which won for Best R&B Song and Best Traditional R&B Performance, while Full Sail Hall of Fame graduate Phil Tan was a mixer on Corinne Bailey Rae's Is This Love, Best R&B Performance winner.

Full Sail University graduates that were personally nominated at this year's GRAMMY® Awards included:

• Brad Blackwood, Mastering, Best Engineered Album-Non Classical, Paper Airplane, Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Dustin William Brower, Composer, Best Rap Song, The Show Goes On: Track From Lasers, Lupe Fiasco
• Josh Gudwin, Vocal Recording, Album of the Year, Loud, Rihanna
• Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson, Producer, Album of the Year, Loud, Rihanna
• Joe Lambert, Mastering, Best Engineered Album-Classical, Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music From Slide, Rinde Eckert, Steven Mackey & Eighth Blackbird
• Graham Marsh, Engineer, Album of the Year, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars
• Corey Shoemaker, Engineer, Album of the Year, Loud, Rihanna
• Phil Tan, Mixing, Record of the Year, Firework: Track from Teenage Dream, Katy Perry and Mixing, Album of the Year, Loud, Rihanna
• Jeff "Supa Jeff" Villanueva, Engineer, Album of the Year, Loud, Rihanna
  

Full Sail graduates have mixed, recorded, or assisted on 17 GRAMMY®-winning Album of the Year releases over the past 21 years.

"We are honored that so many Full Sail University graduates have been involved with the creation of GRAMMY®-nominated projects this year and congratulations go out to Brad for his personal GRAMMY® Award win," said Jay Noble, Director of Alumni, Full Sail University.

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