Jimmy Carter Wins Posthumous 2025 Grammy for Audiobook 5 Weeks After His Death: 'He Is an Artist in Many Ways'

Jimmy Carter received a posthumous honor at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

On Sunday, Feb. 2, the former president — who died in December 2024 — received an audiobook narration Grammy for Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration just five weeks after his death.

Jason Carter accepted the award on behalf of his late grandfather, who previously won three Grammys throughout his life.

“My grandfather was incredibly important to me,” Jason said while accepting the trophy, per The Hollywood Reporter. “Over these last few weeks, we’ve felt this enormous outpouring of love from all around the world, from many of the people in this room, and I just want to say that having his words captured in this way for my family and for the world is truly remarkable.”

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"They are treasures of his," Jason told reporters at the awards show. "He's such an enormous music fan. He loves the creative aspect of music. It's been an important part of his political life, an important part of his personal life, and he is an artist in many ways himself."

He continued: "He was an author, he was a painter, and a variety of things, but he really appreciates the aspect of the Grammys that recognizes creativity."

"This particular project is particularly close to his heart because it's his Sunday School lessons," said Jason. "And he didn't know these would be his final Sunday School lessons when he gave them, but he taught from his school in Plains, Ga., in this tiny little country church 30-some days a year, for 50 years. And it's a crucial part of who he was."

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Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration features recordings of his final Sunday school lessons at his hometown church of Maranatha Baptist in Plains, Ga. The 10-track album includes lessons from Carter, instrumental arrangements from Kabir Sehgal and renditions of songs from the Great American Songbook from Jon Batiste, Darius Rucker and LeAnn Rimes.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning 39th president of the United States who transformed his legacy from one-term commander-in-chief to beloved humanitarian, died in December 2024 at the record-breaking age of 100.

His son James E. Carter III confirmed that he died at home in Plains, Ga., per The Washington Post. Additionally, the Carter Center announced his death in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Carter's wife of nearly eight decades, Rosalynn Carter, died 13 months earlier at the age of 96.

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