Kirby is officially the only Nintendo character to have won a Grammy award


Kirby is officially the only Nintendo character to have won a Grammy award

Kirby is officially the only Nintendo character to have won a Grammy Award

Kirby has officially been named a Grammy Award winner at least in spirit. The pink, spherical creature was important in earning Charlie Rosen & Jake Silverman a Grammy for their rendition of Meta Knight’s Revenge from the 1996 classic Kirby Superstar.

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Kirby is officially the only Nintendo character to have won a Grammy Award
Kirby is officially the only Nintendo character to have won a Grammy Award

The 8-Bit Big Band, a 30- to 65-member orchestra that specialised in putting its stamp on video game music, played the arrangement. The 8-Bit Big Band has previously performed Zelda’s Lullaby from Ocarina of Time, Fourside from Earthbound, Big Blue from F-Zero, and a variety of other songs.

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Who is Kirby and How did the Character win a Grammy?

Kirby Grammy Award
Kirby Grammy Award

Video game music isn’t regularly nominated for Grammys, but with the recent release of Kirby as well as the Forgotten Land, this award is especially appropriate. After being re-released in a separate album, the song Baba Yetu from Civilization IV received a Grammy in 2011. The journey was nominated for the best scoring soundtrack for visual media in 2012, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo won the award. In the clip below, you can hear the group perform the redesigned Meta Knight’s Revenge, which is a jazzy spin just on the original track.

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This honour also comes at a fantastic moment, as Kir as well as the Forgotten Land was just released a few weeks ago. Kir will be nominated for another Grammy, possibly for a cover of one of Forgotten Land’s songs. It’s a prayer circle because it’s “Cave Theme 2.”

The 8-Bit Big Band With Button-Masher performs Rosen and Silverman’s arrangement. It’s a fantastic jazz rendition of the game’s theme. Kirby and the Forgotten Land was the series’ most successful launch in both Japan and the United Kingdom. It is the series’ first 3D game.

Kirby is a Nintendo-published action-platform video game series created by HAL Laboratory. The series follows the exploits of Kir, a pink hero who strives to protect and save his home on the faraway Planet Popstar from various perils.

The series follows the exploits of Kurby, a pink hero who strives to protect and save his home on the faraway Planet Popstar from various perils.

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The games in the series are mostly side-scrolling platformers with puzzle-solving and beat ’em up components. Kirby may inhale enemies and things into his mouth and then spit them out like a missile or consume them.  He can gain the powers or traits of some objects by eating them, manifesting as a new weapon or power-up known as a Copy Ability.

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