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When Tenzin Choegyal’s phone started pinging in the middle of the night last November, he put it aside. It was only when he woke up in the morning that he realised his latest album had been nominated for a Grammy in the United States.
The Tibetan refugee is one of four Australian artists in the running for one of the prestigious international music awards, the winners of which will be announced on Monday morning Australian time.
The Brisbane-based musician’s album Songs From The Bardo - a contemporary interpretation of the Tibetan 'Book of the Dead' with US collaborator Laurie Anderson and friends - had already made it to the number one on the Billboard New Age music chart for four weeks. But the Grammy nod was still a shock.