There’s a reason Middle Tennessee State University has been endeared as a “Grammy-winning factory.”
The university aids in putting artists on the fast track to accolades and stardom. MTSU alumni, former or current students, and faculty from across the university have been a part of more than 170 Grammy Award nominations in the last two decades. The number of MTSU-connected Grammy winners since 2001 currently stands at more than 20 people, with nearly 50 Grammys, including nine repeat recipients, in categories from classical to pop to rock to country to gospel and rap.
“I’m so proud of our Department of Recording Industry, which constantly makes Billboard Magazine and Hollywood Reporters’ lists of top Music Business programs in the world,” says College of Media and Entertainment Dean Beverly Keel. “It’s extra special that we have a program because of our proximity to Nashville. Music gives Middle Tennessee an identity around the world, so it’s significant that MTSU plays an important part of creating leaders who run that industry in every facet from label and publishing executives and artist managers, entertainment attorneys to producers and engineers and, of course, artists and songwriters. I like to say there’s always a little True Blue in the room wherever you are on Music Row.”…