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  "I appreciate the pride with which they represent their culture through music. It led me down a historical rabbit hole of Mongolians and Armenia,” said the renowned musician and lead singer of the famous American Armenian rock band System Of a Down…

The nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were named on Tuesday. We continue to follow the news of the most anticipated musical award of the year.

Chris Cornell's wife Vicky Cornell commented on the decision to nominate “The Promise” for a Grammy award.

“He wrote the song not only for a film about the Armenian genocide, but for all those who have and continue to suffer human rights violations. Unfortunately, patterns of intolerance and hatred continue in the world so it was Chris' way of 'Keeping the Promise' to never forget the past while trying to provide hope for the future for some of the world's most vulnerable people,” Vicky Cornell said in a statement, on husband Chris Cornell's posthumous Grammy nomination for best rock performance.

The 60th annual Grammy Awards will be held in New York on January 2018. Among the nominees are also Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian and conductor Constantine Orbelian.

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