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Alissia is opening up about her historic producer of the year nomination. The musician who's produced and written for Anderson .Paak, Calvin Harris and Mary J. Blige is nominated for non-classical producer of the year at the 2025 Grammys, making her just the ninth woman in the show's 67-year history to compete for the prize. A woman has never won the award. She spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how it felt when she received the nomination and her journey getting to this point in her career.

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00:00When I saw that nomination, I thought to myself, I was like, it's way bigger than me.

00:07Alicia is opening up about her historic Producer of the Year nomination.

00:12The musician who's produced and written for Anderson .Paak, Calvin Harris, and Mary J. Blige

00:16is nominated for Non-Classical Producer of the Year at the 2025 Grammys, making her just the

00:21ninth woman in the show's 67-year history to compete for the prize. A woman has never won

00:26the award. She spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how it felt when she received the nomination.

00:31Yeah, it felt insane. I was just like watching the stream, just of course, you know, just to see

00:37what the results were. And because I worked on a lot of like different projects this year. So

00:43just, you know, being hopeful. And that category was like the second one. And my name came up first.

00:49So I just like got on my seat and started jumping around and screaming. And yeah, no, I couldn't believe it.

00:58I had to like check like a few times that that was my name. And then just my phone started, you know,

01:03blowing up my team, my management, like they FaceTime me, my publisher, all my friends, family.

01:08Like it was just insane. Insane. It took me like a while to really process it. I'm still, I feel like

01:16I'm still like processing. It's insane. I'm so, so, so honored and wow, still in shock. She also opened up

01:24about what it means to be only the ninth woman nominated for the award. No, it's so powerful to see

01:31women like continue to move the needle. And I feel like I just, I'm just so honored to be

01:38nominated in this category. And I feel like I can, you know, I hope that I am, you know,

01:46inspiration for other women, you know, to keep going, you know, to always, you know,

01:54study hard, show up prepared and, and, you know, with confidence, do your thing and keep doing your

02:05thing and never stop dreaming because, you know, it can happen to any one of us. And I'm just,

02:13yeah, I'm just so honored. And also all the women that were nominated before me, I mean, such a

02:18inspiration to see, again, those types of women, just paving the way for, you know, people like me,

02:26you know, in this category, in this category. So, yeah, it's very humbling. And, and I feel like it's,

02:32it's even when I, when I saw that nomination, I thought to myself, I was like, it's way bigger than me.

02:40Alicia also spoke about her journey getting to this point in her career.

02:44It wasn't really an overnight thing. Like I've been working really hard for years and

02:48years. And, you know, oftentimes people don't, you know, really talk about the hard work that,

02:53you know, everyone puts in their craft, you know, but like, it's, it's, it's been years and years

02:58and work, you know, so for sure this year was a good year. I definitely worked on a lot of music

03:06with incredible artists and super, super thankful and grateful with everyone I worked with this year.

03:13Um, yeah. So, so I, I was like, maybe there's a chance, you know, that one of the projects get

03:19nominated. I hope, you know, um, you know, and if not, it's all good. I'm really grateful. I do it

03:25for the love of music and, you know, so, but, um, yeah, this just like crazy. For much more from

03:31the Hollywood reporters interview with Alicia, go to thr.com. This is the Hollywood reporter news.

03:37This is the Hollywood reporter news.

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