Arts & Entertainment
Country Duo Featuring Wexford Native Wins First Grammy Award
The late Mac Miller and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra weren't as fortunate at the 61st annual Grammy Awards ceremony.
PITTSBURGH, PA - Dan + Shay, the country duo consisting of Wexford native and North Allegheny High School graduate Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney, won their first Grammy Award Sunday. The pair took home the Best Country Duo/Group Performance award for their smash hit “Tequila” at the 61st annual Grammy Awards.
“Tequila” also was nominated for Best Country Song, but it lost to “Space Cowboy.”
The late Mac Miller, a Pittsburgh naive, was nominated for Best Rap Album for “Swimming.” But the award want to Cardi B for “Invasion of Privacy.”
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra was nominated for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical, but lost to the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Dan Smyers/Shay Mooney photo via Getty Images.
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