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Today, the GRAMMYs announcd the winners for the 68th award show that took place Feb 1st on CBS at 8pm ET and can be streamed live on Paramount+. Music’s biggest night will not disappoint! As we do throughout Awards Season, we share our predictions in bold, the ones we correctly identified as winners are in bold italics and winners that we didn’t predict are in italics.
DtMF
Bad Bunny
Scotty Dittrich, Hydra Hitz, La Paciencia, JULiA LEWiS, MAG & Tyler Spry, producers; Antonio Caraballo, Josh Gudwin, Roberto Rosado & Tyler Spry, engineers/mixers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer
Manchild
Sabrina Carpenter
Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, producers; Jack Antonoff, Bryce Bordone, Jozef Caldwell, Serban Ghenea, Sean Hutchinson, Oli Jacobs, Michael Riddleberger & Laura Sisk, engineers/mixers; Ruairi O'Flaherty, mastering engineer
Anxiety
Doechii
Doechii, producer; Jayda Love, engineer/mixer; Nicolas De Porcel, mastering engineer
WILDFLOWER
Billie Eilish
FINNEAS, producer; Jon Castelli, FINNEAS & Aron Forbes, engineers/mixers; Dale Becker, mastering engineer
Abracadabra
Lady Gaga
Cirkut, Lady Gaga & Andrew Watt, producers; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea & Paul LaMalfa, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer
luther
Kendrick Lamar With SZA
Jack Antonoff, Bridgeway, M-Tech, roselilah, Sounwave & Kamasi Washington, producers; Jack Antonoff, Ray Charles Brown Jr., Hector Castro, Oli Jacobs, Jack Manning, Sean Matsukawa, Dani Perez, Tony Shepperd, Laura Sisk & Johnathan Turner, engineers/mixers; Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineer
The Subway
Chappell Roan
Daniel Nigro, producer; Chris Kaysch, Mitch McCarthy & Daniel Nigro, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer
APT.
ROSÉ, Bruno Mars
Rogét Chahayed, Cirkut, Omer Fedi & Bruno Mars, producers; Serban Ghenea
DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Bad Bunny
Big Jay, La Paciencia, MAG & Tainy, producers; Antonio Caraballo, Josh Gudwin, Luis Amed Irizarry & Roberto José Rosado Torres, engineers/mixers; Benito Antonio Ocasio Martinez, Roberto José Rosado Torres, Marco Daniel Borrero, Jay Anthony Nuñez & Marcos Efrain Masis, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer
SWAG
Justin Bieber
Eddie Benjamin, Justin Bieber, Daniel Chetrit, Dijon, Carter Lang & Dylan Wiggins, producers; Felix Byrne & Josh Gudwin, engineers/mixers; Eddie Benjamin, Justin Bieber, Daniel Chetrit, Dijon Duenas, Tobias Jesso Jr., Carter Lang, Jackson Lee Morgan & Dylan Wiggins, songwriters; Dale Becker, mastering engineer
Man's Best Friend
Sabrina Carpenter
Jack Antonoff, Sabrina Carpenter & John Ryan, producers; Zem Adu, Jack Antonoff, Bryce Bordone, Jozef Caldwell, Serban Ghenea, Jeff Gunnell, David Hart, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Oli Jacobs, Jack Manning, Joey Miller, Michael Riddleberger, John Ryan, Laura Sisk & Evan Smith, engineers/mixers; Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff, Sabrina Carpenter & John Ryan, songwriters; Nathan Dantzler & Ruairi O'Flaherty, mastering engineers
Let God Sort Em Out
Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
Pharrell Williams, featured artist; Pharrell Williams, producer; Mike Larson, Manny Marroquin, Rob Ulsh & Pharrell Williams, engineers/mixers; Gene Elliott Thornton Jr., Terrence Thornton & Pharrell Williams, songwriters; Zach Pereyra, mastering engineer
MAYHEM
Lady Gaga
Cirkut, Gesaffelstein, Lady Gaga & Andrew Watt, producers; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea & Paul LaMalfa, engineers/mixers; Henry Walter, Mike Lévy, Lady Gaga, Michael Polansky & Andrew Watt, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer
GNX
Kendrick Lamar
Jack Antonoff & Sounwave, producers; Jack Antonoff, Ray Charles Brown Jr., Jozef Caldwell, Oli Jacobs, Jack Manning, Dani Perez, Laura Sisk & Johnathan Turner, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff, Ink, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Kendrick Lamar, Matthew Bernard & Mark Anthony Spears, songwriters; Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineer
MUTT
Leon Thomas
Freaky Rob, Peter Lee Johnson, D. Phelps & Leon Thomas, producers; Jean-Marie Horvat, engineer/mixer; Lazaro Andres Camejo, Freaky Rob, Peter Lee Johnson, D. Phelps & Leon Thomas, songwriters; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer
CHROMAKOPIA
Tyler, The Creator
Tyler, The Creator, producer; NealHPogue, Tyler Okonma & Vic Wainstein, engineers/mixers; Tyler Okonma, songwriter; Mike Bozzi, mastering engineer
Abracadabra
Lady Gaga, Henry Walter & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
Anxiety
Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)
**APT.**
Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park, Theron Thomas & Henry Walter, songwriters (ROSÉ, Bruno Mars)
DtMF
Marco Daniel Borrero, Scott Dittrich, Benjamin Falik, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Hugo René Sención Sanabria, Tyler Thomas Spry & Roberto José Rosado Torres, songwriters (Bad Bunny)
**Golden [From "KPop Demon Hunters"]**
EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X:EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)
luther
Jack Antonoff, Roshwita Larisha Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Ink, Kendrick Lamar, Solána Rowe, Mark Anthony Spears & Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar With SZA)
Manchild
Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
WILDFLOWER
Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
Olivia Dean
KATSEYE
The Marias
Addison Rae
sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young
Dan Auerbach
Elegantly Wasted (Hermanos Gutiérrez Featuring Leon Bridges) (S)
Harsh & Exciting (Moonrisers) (A)
Holy Ghost Party (Robert Finley) (S)
Love Is Cruel (Miles Kane) (S)
Medium Raw (Early James) (A)
A Million Knives (The Velveteers) (A)
No Rain, No Flowers (The Black Keys) (A)
Our Time In The Sun (Jeremie Albino) (A)
Cirkut
Abracadabra (Lady Gaga) (S)
AEOMG (Coco Jones) (T)
APT. (ROSÉ & Bruno Mars) (S)
Big Sleep (The Weeknd Featuring Giorgio Moroder) (T)
Disease (Lady Gaga) (S)
IT girl (JADE) (S)
A Little More (Ed Sheeran) (S)
Mayhem (Lady Gaga) (A)
Red Terror (The Weeknd) (T)
Dijon
Baby (Dijon) (A)
DAISIES (Justin Bieber) (T)
DEVOTION (Justin Bieber & Dijon) (T)
THINGS YOU DO (Justin Bieber) (T)
YUKON (Justin Bieber) (T)
Blake Mills
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Japanese Breakfast) (A)
Forever Is A Feeling (Lucy Dacus) (A)
Glory (Perfume Genius) (A)
That Wasn't A Dream (Pino Palladino And Blake Mills)(A)
Sounwave
GNX (Kendrick Lamar) (A)
Amy Allen
APT. (ROSÉ & Bruno Mars) (S)
Bad As The Rest (Jessie Murph) (S)
Hail Mary (Shaboozey, Sierra Ferrell) (T)
Handlebars (JENNIE Featuring Dua Lipa) (S)
Just Keep Watching (Tate McRae) (S)
Lost In Translation (Carín León & Kasey Musgraves) (S)
Manchild (Sabrina Carpenter) (S)
Tears (Sabrina Carpenter) (S)
WHY (Jon Bellion Featuring Luke Combs) (S)
Edgar Barrera
Birthday Behavior (BIA, Young Miko) (S)
Coleccionando Heridas (KAROL G, Marco Antonio Solís) (T)
Ese Vato No Te Queda (Carín León, Gabito Ballesteros) (S)
Me Jalo (Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera) (T)
Me Retiro (Santana, Grupo Frontera) (S)
Milagros (KAROL G) (S)
Sigueme Besando Asi (Manuel Turizo) (T)
Soltera (Shakira) (S)
Una Noche Contigo (Juanes) (S)
Jessie Jo Dillon
Bless Your Heart (Megan Moroney) (T)
Bottomland (HARDY) (S)
Dreams Don’t Die (Jelly Roll) (S)
First Rodeo (Kelsea Ballerini) (T)
Happen To Me (Russell Dickerson) (S)
Hello S—ty Day (Jake Worthington, Miranda Lambert)(S)
If You Were Mine (Morgan Wallen) (T)
Patterns (Kelsea Ballerini) (T)
To The Men That Love Women After Heartbreak (Kelsea Ballerini) (T)
**Tobias Jesso Jr.**
Another Baby! (Dijon) (T)
Baby! (Dijon) (T)
Daisies (Justin Bieber) (T)
From (Bon Iver) (T)
Go Baby (Justin Bieber) (T)
Golden Burning Sun (Miley Cyrus) (T)
Man I Need (Olivia Dean) (S)
Relationships (HAIM) (S)
Walking Away (Justin Bieber) (T)
Laura Veltz
About You (BigXthaPlug Featuring Tucker Wetmore) (T)
Blue Strips (Jessie Murph) (S)
Grand Bouquet (Maren Morris) (T)
Leave Me Too (Josh Ross) (S)
Parallel Universe (Lauren Spencer Smith) (T)
Someone In This Room (Jessie Murph Featuring Bailey Zimmerman) (T)
Touch Me Like A Gangster (Jessie Murph) (S)
What Tomorrow's For (Blessing Offor) (T)
You'll Be OK, Kid - From The Original Documentary “Child Star” (Demi Lovato) (S)
DAISIES
Justin Bieber
Manchild
Sabrina Carpenter
Disease
Lady Gaga
The Subway
Chappell Roan
Messy
Lola Young
Defying Gravity
Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
**Golden [From "KPop Demon Hunters"]**
HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI
Gabriela
KATSEYE
**APT.**
ROSÉ, Bruno Mars
30 For 30
SZA Featuring Kendrick Lamar
SWAG
Justin Bieber
Man's Best Friend
Sabrina Carpenter
Something Beautiful
Miley Cyrus
MAYHEM
Lady Gaga
**I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2)**
Teddy Swims
No Cap
Disclosure & Anderson .Paak
Disclosure, producer; Guy Lawrence, mixer
Victory Lap
Fred again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax
Blake Cascoe, Berwyn Du Bois, Fred again.., Darcy Lewis, Dan Mayo & PlaqueBoyMax, producers; Tom Norris, mixer
SPACE INVADER
KAYTRANADA
KAYTRANADA, producer; KAYTRANADA, mixer
VOLTAGE
Skrillex
John Feldmann & Skrillex, producers; Luca Pretolesi, Skrillex & Virtual Riot, mixers
End Of Summer
Tame Impala
Kevin Parker, producer; Kevin Parker, mixer
Bluest Flame
Selena Gomez & benny blanco
benny blanco, Dylan Brady & Cashmere Cat, producers;benny blanco & Cashmere Cat, mixers
Abracadabra
Lady Gaga
Cirkut, Lady Gaga & Andrew Watt, producers; Serban Ghenea, mixer
Midnight Sun
Zara Larsson
Margo XS & MNEK, producers; Tom Norris, mixer
Just Keep Watching (From F1® The Movie)
Tate McRae
Tyler Spry & Ryan Tedder, producers; Manny Marroquin, mixer
Illegal
PinkPantheress
Aksel Arvid & PinkPantheress, producers; Nickie Jon Pabon
EUSEXUA
FKA twigs
Ten Days
Fred again..
Fancy That
PinkPantheress
Inhale / Exhale
RÜFÜS DU SOL
F— U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3
Skrillex
**Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix)**
Gesaffelstein, remixer (Lady Gaga, Gesaffelstein)
Don't Forget About Us
FKAYTRANADA, remixer (Mariah Carey & KAYTRANADA)
A Dreams A Dream - Ron Trent Remix
Ron Trent, remixer (Soul II Soul)
Galvanize
Chris Lake, remixer (The Chemical Brothers & Chris Lake)
Golden - David Guetta REM/X
David Guetta, remixer (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)
U Should Not Be Doing That
Amyl and The Sniffers
The Emptiness Machine
Linkin Park
NEVER ENOUGH
Turnstile
Mirtazapine
Hayley Williams
Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning
YUNGBLUD Featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II
Night Terror
Dream Theater
Lachryma
Ghost
Emergence
Sleep Token
Soft Spine
Spiritbox
BIRDS
Turnstile
As Alive As You Need Me To Be
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch Nails)
Caramel
Vessel1 & Vessel2, songwriters (Sleep Token)
Glum
Daniel James & Hayley Williams, songwriters (Hayley Williams)
NEVER ENOUGH
Daniel Fang, Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory, Meg Mills & Brendan Yates, songwriters (Turnstile)
Zombie
Dominic Harrison & Matt Schwartz, songwriters (YUNGBLUD)
private music
Deftones
I quit
HAIM
From Zero
Linkin Park
NEVER ENOUGH
Turnstile
Idols
YUNGBLUD
Everything Is Peaceful Love
Bon Iver
Alone
The Cure
SEEIN' STARS
Turnstile
mangetout
Wet Leg
Parachute
Hayley Williams
SABLE, fABLE
Bon Iver
Songs Of A Lost World
The Cure
DON'T TAP THE GLASS
Tyler, The Creator
moisturizer
Wet Leg
Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Hayley Williams
YUKON
Justin Bieber
It Depends
Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller
Folded
Kehlani
**MUTT (Live From NPR's Tiny Desk)**
Leon Thomas
Heart Of A Woman
Summer Walker
Here We Are
Durand Bernarr
UPTOWN
Lalah Hathaway
LOVE YOU TOO
Ledisi
Crybaby
SZA
VIBES DON'T LIE
Leon Thomas
Folded
Darius Dixson, Andre Harris, Donovan Knight, Don Mills, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes & Dawit Kamal Wilson, songwriters (Kehlani)
Heart Of A Woman
David Bishop & Summer Walker, songwriters (Summer Walker)
It Depends
Nico Baran, Chris Brown, Ant Clemons, Ephrem Lopez Jr., Ryan Press, Bryson Tiller, Elliott Trent & Dewain Whitmore Jr., songwriters (Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller)
Overqualified
James John Abrahart Jr & Durand Bernarr, songwriters (Durand Bernarr)
YES IT IS
Jariuce Banks, Lazaro Andres Camejo, Mike Hector, Peter Lee Johnson, Rodney Jones Jr., Ali Prawl & Leon Thomas, songwriters (Leon Thomas)
BLOOM
Durand Bernarr
Adjust Brightness
Bilal
LOVE ON DIGITAL
Destin Conrad
Access All Areas
FLO
Come As You Are
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon
BELOVED
GIVĒON
**Why Not More?**
Coco Jones
The Crown
Ledisi
Escape Room
Teyana Taylor
MUTT
Leon Thomas
Outside
Cardi B
Chains & Whips
Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams
Anxiety
Doechii
tv off
Kendrick Lamar Featuring Lefty Gunplay
Darling, I
Tyler, The Creator Featuring Teezo Touchdown
Proud Of Me
Fridayy Featuring Meek Mill
Wholeheartedly
JID Featuring Ty Dolla $ign & 6Lack
luther
Kendrick Lamar With SZA
WeMaj
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon Featuring Rapsody
SOMEBODY LOVES ME
PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake
Anxiety
Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)
The Birds Don't Sing
Gene Elliott Thornton Jr., Terrence Thornton, Pharrell Williams & Stevie Wonder, songwriters (Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring John Legend & Voices Of Fire)
Sticky
Aaron Bolton, Dwayne Carter, Jr., Dudley Alexander Duverne, Tyler Okonma, Janae Wherry, Gloria Woods & Rex Zamor, songwriters (Tyler, The Creator Featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne)
TGIF
Lucas Alegria, Dillon Brophy, Yakki Davis, Jess Jackson, Ronnie Jackson, Mario Mims, Jorge M. Taveras & Gloria Woods, songwriters (GloRilla)
tv off
Jack Antonoff, Larry Jayy, Kendrick Lamar, Dijon McFarlane, Sean Momberger, Mark Anthony Spears & Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar Featuring Lefty Gunplay)
Let God Sort Em Out
Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
GLORIOUS
GloRilla
God Does Like Ugly
JID
GNX
Kendrick Lamar
CHROMAKOPIA
Tyler, The Creator
**A Hurricane in Heels: healed people don't act like that (partially recorded live @City Winery & other places)**
Queen Sheba
Black Shaman
Marc Marcel
Pages
Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton
Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends At Treepeople
Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends
Words For Days Vol. 1
Mad Skillz
Noble Rise
Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield
Windows - Live
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
Peace Of Mind / Dreams Come True
Samara Joy
Four
Michael Mayo
All Stars Lead To You - Live
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth
Elemental
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
**We Insist 2025!**
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell
Portrait
Samara Joy
Fly
Michael Mayo
Live at Vic's Las Vegas
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth
**Trilogy 3 (Live)**
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
Southern Nights
Sullivan Fortner Featuring Peter Washington & Marcus Gilmore
Belonging
Branford Marsalis Quartet
Spirit Fall
John Patitucci Featuring Chris Potter & Brian Blade
Fasten Up
Yellowjackets
Orchestrator Emulator
The 8-Bit Big Band
Without Further Ado, Vol 1
Christian McBride Big Band
Lumen
Danilo Pérez & Bohuslän Big Band
**Basie Rocks!**
Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra
Lights on a Satellite
Sun Ra Arkestra
Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores
Kenny Wheeler Legacy Featuring The Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra & Frost Jazz Orchestra
La Fleur de Cayenne
Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band
The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Featuring Pedrito Martinez, Daymé Arocena, Jon Faddis, Donald Harrison & Melvis Santa
Mundoagua - Celebrating Carla Bley
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta & Joey Calveiro
Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard
Miguel Zenón Quartet
honey from a winter stone
Ambrose Akinmusire
Keys To The City Volume One
Robert Glasper
Ride into the Sun
Brad Mehldau
LIVE-ACTION
Nate Smith
Blues Blood
Immanuel Wilkins
Wintersongs
Laila Biali
The Gift Of Love
Jennifer Hudson
**Who Believes In Angels?**
Elton John & Brandi Carlile
Harlequin
Lady Gaga
A Matter Of Time
Laufey
The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume 2
Barbra Streisand
Brightside
ARKAI
Ones & Twos
Gerald Clayton
BEATrio
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez
Just Us
Bob James & Dave Koz
Shayan
Charu Suri
Buena Vista Social Club
Marco Paguia, Dean Sharenow & David Yazbek, producers (Original Broadway Cast)
Death Becomes Her
Taurean Everett, Megan Hilty, Josh Lamon, Christopher Sieber, Jennifer Simard & Michelle Williams, principal vocalists; Noel Carey, Sean Patrick Flahaven, Julia Mattison & Scott M. Riesett, producers; Noel Carey & Julia Mattison, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)
Gypsy
Danny Burstein, Kevin Csolak, Audra McDonald, Jordan Tyson & Joy Woods, principal vocalists; David Caddick, Andy Einhorn, David Lai & George C. Wolfe, producers (Jule Styne, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist) (2024 Broadway Cast)
Just In Time
Emily Bergl, Jonathan Groff, Erika Henningsen, Gracie Lawrence & Michele Pawk, principal vocalists; Derik Lee, Andrew Resnick & Bill Sherman, producers (Bobby Darin, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)
Maybe Happy Ending
Marcus Choi, Darren Criss, Dez Duron & Helen J Shen, principal vocalists; Deborah Abramson, Will Aronson, Ian Kagey & Hue Park, producers; Hue Park, lyricist; Will Aronson, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)
Nose On The Grindstone
Tyler Childers
Good News
Shaboozey
**Bad As I Used To Be [From "F1® The Movie"]**
Chris Stapleton
I Never Lie
Zach Top
Somewhere Over Laredo
Lainey Wilson
A Song To Sing
Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton
Trailblazer
Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson
Love Me Like You Used To Do
Margo Price & Tyler Childers
Amen
Shaboozey & Jelly Roll
Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame
George Strait, Chris Stapleton
Bitin’ List
Tyler Childers, songwriter (Tyler Childers)
Good News
Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman & Jacob Torrey, songwriters (Shaboozey)
I Never Lie
Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols & Zach Top, songwriters (Zach Top)
Somewhere Over Laredo
Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson & Lainey Wilson, songwriters (Lainey Wilson)
A Song To Sing
Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton)
Dollar A Day
Charley Crockett
American Romance
Lukas Nelson
Oh What A Beautiful World
Willie Nelson
Hard Headed Woman
Margo Price
Ain't In It For My Health
Zach Top
Patterns
Kelsea Ballerini
Snipe Hunter
Tyler Childers
Evangeline Vs. The Machine
Eric Church
Beautifully Broken
Jelly Roll
Postcards From Texas
Miranda Lambert
LONELY AVENUE
Jon Batiste Featuring Randy Newman
Ancient Light
I'm With Her
Crimson And Clay
Jason Isbell
Richmond On The James
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Beautiful Strangers
Mavis Staples
Boom
Sierra Hull
Poison In My Well
Maggie Rose & Grace Potter
Godspeed
Mavis Staples
That's Gonna Leave A Mark
Molly Tuttle
Horses
Jesse Welles
Ancient Light
Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I'm With Her)
BIG MONEY
Jon Batiste, Mike Elizondo & Steve McEwan, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
Foxes In The Snow
Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell)
Middle
Jesse Welles, songwriter (Jesse Welles)
Spitfire
Sierra Hull, songwriter (Sierra Hull)
BIG MONEY
Jon Batiste
Bloom
Larkin Poe
Last Leaf On The Tree
Willie Nelson
So Long Little Miss Sunshine
Molly Tuttle
Middle
Jesse Welles
Carter & Cleveland
Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter
A Tip Toe High Wire
Sierra Hull
Arcadia
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Outrun
The Steeldrivers
Highway Prayers
Billy Strings
Ain’t Done With The Blues
Buddy Guy
Room On The Porch
Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'
One Hour Mama: The Blues Of Victoria Spivey
Maria Muldaur
Look Out Highway
Charlie Musselwhite
Young Fashioned Ways
Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush
Breakthrough
Joe Bonamassa
Paper Doll
Samantha Fish
A Tribute To LJK
Eric Gales
Preacher Kids
Robert Randolph
Family
Southern Avenue
What Did The Blackbird Say To The Crow
Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
Crown Of Roses
Patty Griffin
Wild And Clear And Blue
I'm With Her
Foxes In The Snow
Jason Isbell
Under The Powerlines April 24 – September 24
Jesse Welles
Live At Vaughan’s
Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet
For Fat Man
Preservation Brass & Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Church Of New Orleans
Kyle Roussel
Second Line Sunday
Trombone Shorty And New Breed Brass Band
A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco
(Various Artists)
Do It Again
Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
Church
Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend; Anthony S. Brown, Brunes Charles, Annatoria Chitapa, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Jonas Myrin, songwriters
Still Live
Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts; Britney Delagraentiss, Jonathan McReynolds, David Lamar Outing III, Orlando Joel Palmer & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, songwriters
Amen
Pastor Mike Jr.; Adia Andrews, Michael McClure Jr., David Lamar Outing II & Terrell Anthony Pettus, songwriters
Come Jesus Come
Cece Winans Featuring Shirley Caesar
I Know A Name
Elevation Worship, Chris Brown, Brandon Lake; Hank Bentley, Steven Furtick, Brandon Lake & Jacob Sooter, songwriters
YOUR WAY'S BETTER
Forrest Frank; Forrest Frank & Pera, songwriters
Hard Fought Hallelujah
Brandon Lake With Jelly Roll; Chris Brown, Jason Bradley Deford, Steven Furtick, Benjamin William Hastings & Brandon Lake, songwriters
Headphones
Lecrae, Killer Mike, T.I.; Bongo ByTheWay, Clifford Harris, William Roderick Miller, Lecrae Moore, Michael Render & Tyshane Thompson, songwriters
Amazing
Darrel Walls, PJ Morton; PJ Morton & Darrel Walls,songwriters
Sunny Days
Yolanda Adams
Tasha
Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Live Breathe Fight
Tamela Mann
Only On The Road Live
Tye Tribbett
Heart Of Mine
Darrel Walls, PJ Morton
CHILD OF GOD II
Forrest Frank
Coritos Vol. 1
Israel & New Breed
King Of Hearts
Brandon Lake
Reconstruction
Lecrae
Let The Church Sing
Tauren Wells
**I Will Not Be Moved (Live)**
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Then Came The Morning
Gaither Vocal Band
Praise & Worship: More Than A Hollow Hallelujah
The Isaacs
Good Answers
Karen Peck & New River
Back To My Roots
Candi Staton
Cosa Nuestra
Rauw Alejandro
BOGOTÁ DELUXE
Andrés Cepeda
Tropicoqueta
KAROL G
Cancionera
Natalia Lafourcade
**¿Y ahora qué?**
Alejandro Sanz
DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Bad Bunny
Mixteip
J Balvin
FERXXO VOL X: Sagrado
Feid
NAIKI
Nicki Nicole
EUB DELUXE
Trueno
**SINFÓNICO (En Vivo)**
Yandel
Genes Rebeldes
Aterciopelados
ASTROPICAL
Bomba Estéreo, Rawayana, ASTROPICAL
PAPOTA
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso
ALGORHYTHM
Los Wizzards
Novela
Fito Paez
MALA MÍA
Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera
Y Lo Que Viene
Grupo Frontera
Sin Rodeos
Paola Jara
**Palabra De To's (Seca)**
Carín León
**Bobby Pulido & Friends Una Tuya Y Una Mía - Por La Puerta Grande (En Vivo)**
Bobby Pulido
Fotografías
Rubén Blades, Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
Raíces
Gloria Estefan
Clásicos 1.0
Grupo Niche
Bingo
Alain Pérez
Debut y Segunda Tanda, Vol. 2
Gilberto Santa Rosa
EoO
Bad Bunny
Cantando en el Camino
Ciro Hurtado
JERUSALEMA
Angélique Kidjo
**Inmigrante Y Que?**
Yeisy Rojas
**Shrini's Dream (Live)**
Shakti
Daybreak
Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar
Love
Burna Boy
With You
Davido Featuring Omah Lay
Hope & Love
Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin
Gimme Dat
Ayra Starr Featuring Wizkid
PUSH 2 START
Tyla
Sounds Of Kumbha
Siddhant Bhatia
No Sign of Weakness
Burna Boy
Eclairer le monde - Light the World
Youssou N'Dour
**Mind Explosion (50th Anniversary Tour Live)**
Shakti
Chapter III: We Return To Light
Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar
Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo
Caetano Veloso And Maria Bethânia
Treasure Self Love
Lila Iké
Heart & Soul
Vybz Kartel
BLXXD & FYAH
Keznamdi
From Within
Mortimer
No Place Like Home
Jesse Royal
Kuruvinda
Kirsten Agresta-Copely
According To The Moon
Cheryl B. Engelhardt, GEM, Dallas String Quartet
Into The Forest
Jahnavi Harrison
NOMADICA
Carla Patullo Featuring The Scorchio Quartet & Tonality
The Colors In My Mind
Chris Redding
Ageless: 100 Years Young
Joanie Leeds & Joya
Buddy's Magic Tree House
Mega Ran
Harmony
FYÜTCH & Aura V
Herstory
Flor Bromley
The Music Of Tori And The Muses
Tori Amos
Drop Dead Years
Bill Burr
PostMortem
Sarah Silverman
Single Lady
Ali Wong
What Had Happened Was…
Jamie Foxx
Your Friend, Nate Bargatze
Nate Bargatze
Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story
Kathy Garver
Into The Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah
Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
You Know It’s True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli
Fab Morvan
A Complete Unknown
Timothée Chalamet
F1® The Album
(Various Artists)
KPop Demon Hunters
(Various Artists)
Sinners
(Various Artists)
Wicked
(Various Artists)
How To Train Your Dragon
John Powell, composer
Severance: Season 2
Theodore Shapiro, composer
Sinners
Ludwig Göransson, composer
Wicked
John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, composers
The Wild Robot
Kris Bowers, composer
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Secrets of the Spires
Pinar Toprak, composer
Helldivers 2
Wilbert Roget, II, composer
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
Gordy Haab, composer
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune
Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget, II, composers
Sword of the Sea
Austin Wintory, composer
**As Alive As You Need Me To Be [From "TRON: Ares"]**
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch Nails)
**Golden [From "KPop Demon Hunters"]**
EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)
**I Lied to You [From "Sinners"]**
Ludwig Göransson & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Miles Caton)
**Never Too Late [From "Elton John: Never Too Late"]**
Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Bernie Taupin & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Elton John, Brandi Carlile)
**Pale, Pale Moon [From "Sinners"]**
Ludwig Göransson & Brittany Howard, songwriters (Jayme Lawson)
**Sinners [From "Sinners"]**
Leonard Denisenko, Rodarius Green, Travis Harrington, Tarkan Kozluklu, Kyris Mingo & Darius Povilinus, songwriters (Rod Wave)
Manchild
Sabrina Carpenter
Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia, video directors; Aiden Magarian, Nathan Scherrer & Natan Schottenfels, video producers
So Be It
Clipse
Hannan Hussain, video director; Daniel Order, video producer
Anxiety
Doechii
James Mackel, video director; Pablo Feldman, Jolene Mendes & Sophia Sabella, video producers
Love
OK Go
Aaron Duffy, Miguel Espada & Damian Kulash Jr., video directors; Petra Ahmann, video producer
Young Lion
Sade
Sophie Muller, video director; Aaron Taylor Dean & Sade, video producers
Devo
Devo
Chris Smith, video director; Danny Gabai, Anita Greenspan, Chris Holmes & Chris Smith, video producers
Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Raye
Paul Dugdale, video director; Stefan Demetriou & Amy James, video producers
Relentless
Diane Warren
Bess Kargman, video director; Peggy Drexler, Michele Farinola & Kat Nguyen, video producers
Music By John Williams
John Williams
Laurent Bouzereau, video director; Sara Bernstein, Laurent Bouzereau, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Meredith Kaulfers, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg & Justin Wilkes, video producers
Piece By Piece
Pharrell Williams
Morgan Neville, video director; Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, Mimi Valdes & Pharrell Williams, video producers
And The Adjacent Possible
Hà Trinh Quoc Bao, Damian Kulash, Jr., Claudio Ripol, Wombi Rose & Yuri Suzuki, art directors (OK Go)
Balloonerism
Bráulio Amado & Alim Smith, art directors (Mac Miller)
Danse Macabre: De Luxe
Rory McCartney, art director (Duran Duran)
Loud Is As
Farbod Kokabi & Emily Sneddon, art directors (Tsunami)
Sequoia
Tim Breen & Ken Shipley, art directors (Various Artists)
**The Spins (Picture Disc Vinyl)**
Miller McCormick, art director (Mac Miller)
Tracks II: The Lost Albums
Meghan Foley & Michelle Holme, art directors (Bruce Springsteen)
CHROMAKOPIA
Shaun Llewellyn & Luis “Panch” Perez, art directors (Tyler, The Creator)
The Crux
William Wesley II, art director (Djo)
Debí Tirar Más Fotos
Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, art director (Bad Bunny)
Glory
Cody Critcheloe & Andrew J.S., art directors (Perfume Genius)
moisturizer
Hester Chambers, Ellis Durand, Henry Holmes, Matt de Jong, Jamie-James Medina, Joshua Mobaraki & Rhian Teasdale, art directors (Wet Leg)
Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974
Scott B. Bomar, album notes writer (Buck Owens And His Buckaroos)
After The Last Sky
Adam Shatz, album notes writer (Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland)
Árabe
Amanda Ekery, album notes writer (Amanda Ekery)
The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967
Alec Palao, album notes writer (Sly & The Family Stone)
**A Ghost Is Born (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)**
Bob Mehr, album notes writer (Wilco)
Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings
Ashley Kahn, album notes writer (Miles Davis)
**Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)**
Patrick Milligan & Joni Mitchell, compilation producers; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer (Joni Mitchell)
The Making Of Five Leaves Left
Cally Callomon & Johnny Chandler, compilation producers; Simon Heyworth & John Wood, mastering engineers (Nick Drake)
**Roots Rocking Zimbabwe - The Modern Sound Of Harare' Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa No.41)**
Samy Ben Redjeb, compilation producer; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists)
**Super Disco Pirata - De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980 (Analog Africa No. 39)**
Samy Ben Redjeb, compilation producer; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists)
You Can't Hip A Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos
Will Bratton, Sharyn Felder & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Doc Pomus)
All Things Light
Jesse Brock, Jon Castelli, Tyler Johnson, Nick Lobel, Simon Maartensson, Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell, Anders Mouridsen, Ryan Nasci, Ernesto Olivera-Lapier, Ethan Schneiderman & Owen Stoutt, engineers; Dale Becker, mastering engineer (Cam)
Arcadia
Neal Cappellino & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer (Alison Krauss & Union Station)
**For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)**
Joseph Lorge, Blake Mills & Sebastian Reunert, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Japanese Breakfast)
That Wasn't A Dream
Joseph Lorge & Blake Mills, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Pino Palladino, Blake Mills)
Cerrone: Don't Look Down
Mike Tierney, engineer; Alan Silverman, mastering engineer (Sandbox Percussion)
Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
Gintas Norvila, engineer; Jennifer Nulsen, mastering engineer (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra)
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District
Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons, Kristine Opolais, Günther Groissböck, Peter Hoare, Brenden Gunnell & Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Standard Stoppages
Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, Bill Maylone, Judith Sherman & David Skidmore, engineers; Joe Lambert, mastering engineer (Third Coast Percussion)
Yule
Morten Lindberg, engineer; Morten Lindberg, mastering engineer (Trio Mediæval)
Blanton Alspaugh
All Is Miracle - The Choral Music Of Kyle Pederson (Timothy J. Campbell & Transept) (A)
Heggie: Intelligence (Kwame Ryan, Janai Brugger, Jamie Barton, J'Nai Bridges & Houston Grand Opera) (A)
Marsalis: Blues Symphony (Jader Bignamini & Detroit Symphony Orchestra) (A)
Massenet: Werther (Robert Spano, Matthew Polenzani, sabel Leonard & Houston Grand Opera) (A)
The Mirage Calls (Charles Bruffy & Kansas City Chorale) (A)
Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem (Michael Zaugg, Axios Men's Ensemble & Pro Coro Canada) (A)
Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain (Christopher Gabbitas & Phoenix Chorale) (A)
Sergei Kvitko
Biedenbender: Enigma; River Of Time (Kevin L. Sedatole & Michigan State University Wind Symphony) (A)
Chiaroscuro (Vedrana Subotic) (A)
Dancing In A Still Life (Tasha Warren) (A)
Excursions (Vuorovesi Trio) (A)
Four Hands. Two Hearts. One Hope. Ukrainian And American Music For Piano Duo (Mykhailo Diordiiev & Anastasiia Larchikova) (A)
Here And Now - Trumpet Music By Virginia Composers (Jason Crafton, Richard Masters, Annie Stevens & Paul Langosch) (A)
Lansky: Touch And Go (Gwendolyn Dease) (A)
Orbiting Garden (William Hobbs) (A)
Would That Loving Were Enough (Haven Trio) (A)
Morten Lindberg
Fred Over Jorden (Peace To The World) (Elisabeth Holte, Kjetil Bjerkestrand & Uranienborg Vokalensemble) (A)
Stjernebru (Anne Karin Sundal-Ask & Det Norske Jentekor) (A)
Yule (Trio Mediæval) (A)
Dmitriy Lipay
Heggie: Before It All Goes Dark (Joseph Mechavich, Megan Marino, Ryan McKinny & Music Of Remembrance Ensemble) (A)
Odyssey (Jorge Glem, Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela) (A)
Ortiz: Yanga (Gustavo Dudamel, Alisa Weilerstein & Los Angeles Philharmonic) (A)
Elaine Martone
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)
Chopin & Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas (Brian Thornton & Spencer Myer) (A)
Dear Mrs. Kennedy (Ryan Townsend Strand) (A)
Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)
LeFrak: Romántico (Sharon Isbin, Lopez-Yañez & Orchestra Of St. Luke's) (A)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 & Symphony No. 29 (Garrick Ohlsson, Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestrea) (A)
The Poet & The Prodigy (Debra Nagy & Mark Edwards) (A)
Shapes In Collective Space (Tallā Rouge) (A)
Songs Of Orpheus (Kelley O'Connor) (A)
All American F***boy
Andrew Law, immersive mix engineer (Duckwrth)
Immersed
Justin Gray, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Justin Gray, Drew Jurecka & Morten Lindberg, immersive producers (Justin Gray)
**An Immersive Tribute To Astor Piazzolla (Live)**
Andrés Mayo & Martín Muscatello, immersive mix engineers; Andrés Mayo & Martín Muscatello, immersive producers (Various Artists)
Tearjerkers
Hans-Martin Buff, immersive mix engineer; Hans-Martin Buff, immersive producer (Tearjerkers)
Yule
Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Arve Henriksen & Morten Lindberg, immersive producers (Trio Mediæval)
First Snow
Remy Le Boeuf, composer (Nordkraft Big Band, Remy Le Boeuf & Danielle Wertz)
Live Life This Day: Movement I
Miho Hazama, composer (Miho Hazama, Danish Radio Big Band & Danish National Symphony Orchestra)
Lord, That's A Long Way
Sierra Hull, composer (Sierra Hull)
Opening
Zain Effendi, composer (Zain Effendi)
Train To Emerald City
John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, composers (John Powell & Stephen Schwartz)
Why You Here / Before The Sun Went Down
Ludwig Göransson, composer (Ludwig Göransson Featuring Miles Caton)
Be Okay
Cynthia Erivo, arranger (Cynthia Erivo)
A Child Is Born
Remy Le Boeuf, arranger (Nordkraft Big Band & Remy Le Boeuf)
Fight On
Andy Clausen, Addison Maye-Saxon, Riley Mulherkar & Chloe Rowlands, arrangers (The Westerlies)
Super Mario Praise Break
Bryan Carter, Charlie Rosen & Matthew Whitaker, arrangers (The 8-Bit Big Band)
Big Fish
Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick, Nate Smith & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Nate Smith Featuring säje)
**How Did She Look?**
Nelson Riddle, arranger (Seth MacFarlane)
Keep An Eye On Summer
Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)
**Something In The Water (Acoustic-Ish)**
Clyde Lawrence, Gracie Lawrence & Linus Lawrence, arrangers (Lawrence)
What A Wonderful World
Cody Fry, arranger (Cody Fry)
Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.
**Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture; Ballade Op. 4; Suites From '24 Negro Melodies'**
Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic)
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Ravel: Boléro, M. 81
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela)
Still & Bonds
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)
Heggie: Intelligence
Kwamé Ryan, conductor; Jamie Barton, J'Nai Bridges & Janai Brugger; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Houston Grand Opera; Gene Scheer)
Huang Ruo: An American Soldier
Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Hannah Cho, Alex DeSocio, Nina Yoshida Nelsen & Brian Vu; Adam Abeshouse, Silas Brown & Doron Schachter, producers (American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang)
Kouyoumdjian: Adoration
Alan Pierson, conductor; Miriam Khalil, Marc Kudisch, David Adam Moore, Omar Najmi, Naomi Louisa O’Connell & Karim Sulayman; Mary Kouyoumdjian, producer (Silvana Quartet; The Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)
O'Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead
Elaine Kelly, conductor; Oisín Ó Dálaigh & John Molloy; Alex Dowling & Emma O'Halloran, producers (Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran)
Tesori: Grounded
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ben Bliss, Emily D’Angelo, Greer Grimsley & Kyle Miller; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)
Advena - Liturgies For A Broken World
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Simon Barrad, Emily Yocum Black & Michael Hawes; Conspirare)
Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved
Grant Gershon, conductor (Billy Childs, Dan Chmielinski, Christian Euman, Larry Koonse, Lyris Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, Carol Robbins & Luciana Souza; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Lang: Poor Hymnal
Donald Nally, conductor (Steven Bradshaw, Michael Hawes, Lauren Kelly, Rebecca Siler & Elisa Sutherland; The Crossing)
Ortiz: Yanga
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, chorus master (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Requiem Of Light
Steven Fox, conductor; Emily Drennan & Patti Drennan, chorus masters (Brian Giebler & Sangeeta Kaur; The Clarion Choir)
Dennehy: Land Of Winter
Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound
La Mer - French Piano Trios
Neave Trio
Lullabies For The Brokenhearted
Lili Haydn & Paul Cantelon
Slavic Sessions
Yuja Wang; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Standard Stoppages
Third Coast Percussion
**Coleridge-Taylor: 3 Selections From '24 Negro Melodies'**
Curtis Stewart; Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic)
Hope Orchestrated
Mary Dawood Catlin; Jesús David Medina & Raniero Palm, conductors (Venezuela Strings Recording Ensemble)
Inheritances
Adam Tendler
Price: Piano Concerto In One Movement In D Minor
Han Chen; John Jeter, conductor (Malmö Opera Orchestra)
Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos
Yo-Yo Ma; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
Yuja Wang; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Alike - My Mother's Dream
Allison Charney, soloist; Benjamin Loeb, conductor (National Symphonia Orchestra)
Black Pierrot
Sidney Outlaw, soloist; Warren Jones, pianist
In This Short Life
Devony Smith, soloist; Danny Zelibor, pianist; Michael Nicolas, artist
Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
Susan Narucki, soloist; Curtis Macomber, artist
Schubert Beatles
Theo Hoffman, soloist; Steven Blier, pianist (Rupert Boyd, Julia Bullock, Alex Levine, Andrew Owens, Rubén Rengel & Sam Weber)
Telemann: Ino - Opera Arias For Soprano
Amanda Forsythe, soloist; Robert Mealy, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors (Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra)
Cerrone: Don't Look Down
Sandbox Percussion; Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Christopher Cerrone, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney & Mike Tierney, producers
The Dunbar/Moore Sessions, Vol. II
Will Liverman; Jonathan Estabrooks, producer
Ortiz: Yanga
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer
Seven Seasons
Janai Brugger, Isolde Fair, MB Gordy & Starr Parodi; Nicholas Dodd, conductor; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley, producers
Tombeaux
Christina Sandsengen; Shaun Drew & Christina Sandsengen, producers
Cerrone: Don't Look Down
Christopher Cerrone, composer (Conor Hanick & Sandbox Percussion)
Dennehy: Land Of Winter
Donnacha Dennehy, composer (Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound)
**León: Raíces (Origins)**
Tania León, composer (Edward Gardner & London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Okpebholo: Songs In Flight
Shawn E. Okpebholo, composer (Will Liverman, Paul Sánchez & Various Artists)
Ortiz: Dzonot
Gabriela Ortiz, composer (Alisa Weilerstein, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)
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PHOTO CREDIT | LIV Golf
In this month’s issue, our front and back cover story is with 24X PGA Tour Champion, 2016 US Open Champion, 2020 Masters Champion, LIV Golf 3X Individual wins Dustin Johnson. We talk with him about the passion for his sport, preparing for the upcoming and his 5th LIV season, being Owner/Captain of the 4Aces, how he stays in shape, and more. 4Aces' GM, Chris Rosaasen also talks about how he came to the team and what we can expect as the season kicks off in Riyadh.
The NHL season is well underway and we had some time with NJ Devils star, Jack Hughes to talk about how he came to hockey, being drafted in 2019, his partnership with Mucinex Kickstart and how he takes time for himself.
We caught up with the most decorated X Games Winter female athlete, Jamie Anderson to talk about how she navigates being a snowboarder and what it means to her. We also talk about how she trains, takes time for herself, and participating in Rockstar Energy Open and the Legendary X Games!
With the Super Bowl approaching on Feb 8th, we're looking forward to seeing the Seahawks vs the Patriots to see who will win this season. This time of year brings so many events that take place during then. We talked with Ashley Daniel, NFL Director of Marketing and E-Commerce to talk about Origins: NFL Collection which is a collaborative effort between the league and designers to create products that have the spirit that the Big Game takes place and being created by those from that area. We also chat with Aaron De La Cruz to find out how he became part of this project and what he is looking forward to.
We're looking forward to festival and this season we talk with DJ/Producer KAAZE about his upcoming schedule which includes debuting at Tomorrowland, new music, his collaboration with Steve Aoki via their EP Head Rush, and how he approaches creating music and what that process involves.
We also sat down with HYPATON to talk about how he got into the industry, working with and being mentored by David Guetta, how he approaches his music, and his upcoming Tomorrowland debut.
We have had a few weeks to get used to being in 2026. We sat down with Michelle Buteau to talk about how this entertainer, comedian, and actor approaches her work, concluding the final season of Netflix's Survival of the Thickest where she is the lead and Co-Creator, her upcoming projects, how she navigates the New Year, and her partnership with Premier Protein.
We sat down with the filmmakers, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree and Sadhvi Anubhuti of BALANCE: A Perimenopause Journey which not only brings awareness to this series of periods in women's lives, but also the issues of how to navigate it whether through Hormone Replacement Treatment (HRT) or through natural means. We hear from an array of doctors on all sides of the issues, regular women, and from Executive Producers Alyssa Milano and Jeannie Mai with their stories as well.
This month's The Art of the Snack takes us to DC at Daru where we enjoy cuisine from India and Nepal.
This month's Athleisure List comes from Pave Padel, a padel club located in Montauk. We also included Four Seasons Resorts Bali as well all think about warmer weather and phenomenal trips.
Our 9LIST ROUTIN3S comes from Jack Hughes where he shares what he has, does, and enjoys Morning, Afternoon, and Night for his GAM3DAY. Our 9PLAYLIST MULTI which looks at what Dustin Johnson is listening to as well as streaming. Our 9PLAYLIST comes from Aaron De La Cruz. Our NEW YEAR N3W YOU includes Jamie Anderson, HYPATON, and KAAZE.
Read the JAN ISSUE #121 of Athleisure Mag.
PHOTO CREDIT | Australian Open
In tennis, the year kicks off with the first Grand Slam of the season at the Australian Open which started on Jan 12th and ends on Feb 1st! We are now in the quarterfinals and are looking forward to see who will take it all! We can’t wait to see the athletes and stories that will dominate this season as well as how it culminates when it hits the final Grand Slam of the year here in NYC for the US Open.
PHOTO CREDIT | Ralph Lauren | Team USA Opening Ceremony Ice Dancers Evan Bates (1G) and Madison Chock (1G)
The Winter Olympics 2026 takes place from Feb 6 - 22nd in Milano Cortina (these games will be co-hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo)! It’s a time to see your favorite athletes competing on a global stage from curling, snowboarding, alpine skiing and more. As we get closer to these games, we also enjoy seeing when each country unveils the looks for the teams from Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony and for competition looks. Ralph Lauren who has Team USA Olympic and Paralympic athletes for nearly 20 years unveiled their uniforms.
As we watch the Opening Ceremony, you’ll see Team USA arriving in a white wool coat with wooden toggles, a turtleneck sweater and wool trousers that are tailored. For the Closing Ceremony, they will have a color-block puffer jacket, wool turtleneck sweater, and white utility pants. Accessories will include knit mittens in red, white, and blue as well as a leather belt and suede alpine boots.
Via a release, David Lauren, Ralph Lauren’s Chief Branding and Innovation Officer shared that, “Ralph Lauren has had the immense privilege of outfitting Team USA for nearly 20 years, and the significance and sheer magnitude of dressing our nation’s incredible athletes—on the most dramatic stage in sport as they pursue their lifelong dreams—is an honor that never fades. Our design philosophy has always been about creating dreams and telling stories through style, and these uniforms, both timeless and modern, reflect the passion, optimism, and relentless pursuit of excellence that embody the American spirit.”
Each time they present the looks, the brand also features athletes who will be participating in the games.
PHOTO CREDIT | Ralph Lauren | Team USA Closing Ceremony Snowboarder Red Gerard (1G)
“I’ve been doing a lot of training, spending a lot of time over in Europe pretty close to where we’ll be competing in Milan,” says Red Gerard. “Trying to get better snowboarding but in a safe way without getting hurt before the Olympics! I’m stoked to represent Team USA with Ralph Lauren and to be a part of the unveiling of my personal favorite Opening and Closing Ceremony Uniforms!!”
PHOTO CREDIT | Ralph Lauren | Team USA Closing Ceremony Looks | Ice Dancers Maia Shibutani (2B) and Alex Shibutani (2B)
In addition to the looks that are worn by the athletes, Ralph Lauren also creates a collection that allows us to purchase them to support the team as well as the Winter Games. Ralph Lauren’s 2026 Team USA is available now and can be purchased online, at select Ralph Lauren stores, select department stores, and if you will be at the Winter Games this year, you can purchase pieces at their pop-up shop at the Rosapetra Hotel in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
PHOTO CREDIT | Ralph Lauren | Ralph Lauren Team USA Collection
PHOTO CREDIT | ABC/Oscars
Today, the 98th Oscars announced the nominations for this show that will take place on Sunday, Mar 15th on ABC and Hulu at 7pm ET from the Dolby Theatre in LA. The show will be hosted by Conan O’Brien for his second year in a row. As we do throughout Awards Season, we share our predictions in bold, the ones we correctly identified as winners are in bold italics and winners that we didn’t predict are in italics. On the night of the event, we will share who we predicted correctly as well as those we didn’t that won.
Bugonia (Focus Features); Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers
F1 (Apple); Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Frankenstein (Netflix); Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers
Hamnet (Focus Features); Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers
Marty Supreme (A24); Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
The Secret Agent (Neon); Emilie Lesclaux, Producer
Sentimental Value (Neon); Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers
Train Dreams (Netflix); Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers
Hamnet (Focus Features), Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme (A24), Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.), Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value (Neon), Joachim Trier
Sinners (Warner Bros.), Ryan Coogler
Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme (A24)
Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Michael B. Jordan in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent (Neon)
Jessie Buckley in Hamnet (Focus Features)
Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue (Focus Features)
Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value (Neon)
Emma Stone in Bugonia (Focus Features)
Benicio Del Toro in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein (Netflix)
Delroy Lindo in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Sean Penn in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value (Neon)
Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value (Neon)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value (Neon)
Amy Madigan in Weapons (Warner Bros.)
Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Teyana Taylor in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Bugonia (Focus Features); Screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein (Netflix); Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet (Focus Features); Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams (Netflix); Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics); Written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident (Neon); Written by Jafar Panahi; Script collaborators Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme (A24); Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value (Neon); Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Written by Ryan Coogler
Arco (Neon); Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman
Elio (Walt Disney); Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix); Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (GKIDS); Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney); Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino
Brazil, The Secret Agent
France, It Was Just an Accident
Norway, Sentimental Value
Spain, Sirât
Tunisia, The Voice of Hind Rajab
The Alabama Solution (HBO Documentary Films); Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple); Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen
Cutting Through Rocks; Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (PINK); Nominees to be determined
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix); Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee
Butterfly (Sacrebleu Productions); Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
Forevergreen; Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (National Film Board of Canada); Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Retirement Plan; John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
The Three Sisters (Polydont Films/Rymanco Ventures); Konstantin Bronzit
Hamnet (Focus Features); Nina Gold
Marty Supreme (A24); Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Cassandra Kulukundis
The Secret Agent (Neon); Gabriel Domingues
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Francine Maisler
Frankenstein (Netflix), Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme (A24), Darius Khondji
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.), Michael Bauman
Sinners (Warner Bros.), Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Train Dreams (Netflix), Adolpho Veloso
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney); Deborah L. Scott
Frankenstein (Netflix); Kate Hawley
Hamnet (Focus Features); Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme (A24); Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Ruth E. Carter
All the Empty Rooms (Netflix); Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (HBO); Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” (Sky); Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
The Devil Is Busy (HBO); Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
Perfectly a Strangeness (Second Sight Pictures); Alison McAlpine
F1 (Apple); Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme (A24); Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Andy Jurgensen
Sentimental Value (Neon); Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Michael P. Shawver
Butcher’s Stain (Tel Aviv University Steve Tisch School of Film and Television); Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
A Friend of Dorothy; Lee Knight and James Dean
Jane Austen’s Period Drama; Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
The Singers (Netflix); Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt
Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker); Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
Frankenstein (Netflix); Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
Kokuho (GKIDS); Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
The Smashing Machine (A24); Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
The Ugly Stepsister (Independent Film Company/Shudder); Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
Bugonia (Focus Features); Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein (Netflix); Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet (Focus Features); Max Richter
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Jonny Greenwood
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Ludwig Goransson
“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless (MasterClass/Greenwich Entertainment); Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix); Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park
“I Lied to You” from Sinners (Warner Bros.); Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi! (Viva Verdi!); Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams (Netflix); Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner, Lyric by Nick Cave
Frankenstein (Netflix); Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
Hamnet (Focus Features); Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
Marty Supreme (A24); Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne
F1 (Apple) Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta
Frankenstein (Netflix) Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker
Sirāt (Neon); Amanda Vil
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney); Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
F1 (Apple); Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson
Jurassic World Rebirth (Universal); David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould
The Lost Bus (Apple); Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin
Sinners (Warner Bros.) Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean
As we look ahead to the weekend, we’re excited that the X Games will bring us our favorite Winter sports from Aspen, Jan 23 - Jan 25th. With a number of phenomenal athletes including our DEC ISSUE #120 cover Mark McMorris who is the most decorated Winter athlete in the history of the X Games with 24 medals (11 G, 10 S, 3 B) and is a Winter X Games Founder Athlete for the X Games League! In addition, there are a number of athletes that will be hitting the snow that we can’t wait to see! If you won’t be in Aspen to catch all the action, you can tune in on ESPN, ABC, ESPN+, Hulu+, and streaming on The Roku Channel and XGames.com.
PHOTO CREDIT | Adam Hunger/AP Content Services for Mucinex Kickstart
We’re in the New Year and whether it’s wrapping up things from 2025 or beginning the marathon of the months ahead, we have all got into the flow. With the holiday season behind us, we tend to countdown to the Spring. Part of that process is navigating Cold & Flu season. We took some time to sit down with NHL New Jersey Devils Center, Jack Hughes to talk about his love for the game of hockey, playing on this team, his Olympic debut, and his partnership with Mucinex Kickstart!
ATHLEISURE MAG: When did you realize that you fell in love with hockey?
JACK HUGHES: Like honestly, super young I would say! Like, my older brother played (Editor’s Note: Quinn plays for the Minnesota Wild and his younger brother Luke plays for the Devils - they are the first trio of brothers to all be top-7 NHL draft picks and are cover athletes for EA Sports' NHL 25), both of my parents played, and growing up, hockey was always around! I always had a stick in my hand. It was probably when I was extremely young and we were on the ice skating. My brother did it so I would say that I would have been 2 or 3.
AM: That is pretty crazy and amazing!
At what point did you realize that you wanted to go pro?
JH: I mean, I don’t think that you really realize that, I think that when you’re 8 years old, you’re playing to have fun and then it’s the same when you’re 12 and then 14. But maybe, when I was 16, that’s when I started to realize that maybe that would be realistic, you know? That’s when hockey gets more serious and the pyramid starts to shrink a little bit! Just growing up, that was always a dream of mine! I just wanted to play – to play in the NHL, but it just seemed so far fetched at the time.
AM: You got drafted in 2019 and you play for the New Jersey Devils, what does it mean to you to be on this team?
JH: Yeah, it’s good! I enjoy playing on the team and also living there. It’s the only team that I have played for in my career and I really enjoy it. It’s a place that I call home now and I love it and I have really loved my time here.
AM: Clearly playing this sport is a total body workout! What are 3 workouts that you do to get ready for Game Day?
JH: Well, workouts that I do, it’s kind of hard because you’re playing every night! You’re kind of just warming up and activating and you’re trying to keep your body feeling good and staying loose. But you also want to be kept strong and to keep it that way throughout the year. It’s important to get your rest obviously and your cardio is at such a high level because of all of the games and all of the skating, so there is so much that goes into it. But you’re just trying to keep your body feeling good for when you do play.
AM: What are your foods that are you’re go-to’s that you enjoy eating?
JH: I obviously love desserts, but I can’t have those all of the time! But things that keep me going for Game Day are things like sweet potatoes, a lot of high protein things like steak and chicken – you have to do all of that! Eggs, a ton of eggs in the morning is another one. I don’t know, it’s kind of like, you don’t really eat for food or enjoyment, it’s for fuel so that you can fuel yourself so that you can feel good and you can feel energized.
AM: With the Olympics coming up, you’re going to be competing on that global stage, what does it mean to you to be able to do this?
JH: It’s just a huge dream of mine. You know, I grew up as a proud American so it’s a big dream to be able to play for your country in the Olympics and it’s the biggest stage in hockey. So to be able to be a part of it is something that I have dreamed of for my entire life and I’m excited to be able to go through that process.
AM: You’ve partnered with Mucinex and Athleisure Mag is based in NYC and we’ve had a mix of some mild days and some cold days but you know this is the time of year where we are navigating Cold + Flu season. Why did you want to partner with Mucinex and what are you doing to make sure that you are staying cold and flu free?
JH: Honestly, you have a ton of late nights traveling and you’re always moving around going from city to city. You try to stay at your best, but obviously, you get sick sometimes! I feel like Mucinex is at every locker room. Players are taking Mucinex for multi-symptom relief so that they can feel better and feel ready to try to be able to perform at their best. You have to do that and you have to get your rest as well. You just try to feel as good as you can!
AM: Can you tell us about the Kickstart to Greatness Campaign that you launched as you have partnered with Mucinex Kickstart which honors the real key heroes of youth hockey - the mentors and programs that have helped shape young hockey players?
JH: Yeah! They have partnered with USA Hockey Foundation and have donated $20,000 to help fund the young American kids that are playing hockey. It’s something that I am super passionate about because I was super young too and obviously, youth hockey is something that is close to my heart. I was grateful to help Mucinex host a youth clinic with USA Hockey and Hockey in New Jersey to help kickstart the next generation of hockey stars. It’s an easy thing for me to be involved in this as they donated to something that I care about and it is an easy merger with something that I really care about and it is an easy thing to support.
This month, we end the year with a cover star that we are very excited about who is the most decorated snowboarder in X Games history, with 24 medals (G11, S10, B3) as well as being a 3X Bronze Olympic Team Canada Snowboarding medalist - Mark McMorris! He is known for taking to the snow in Slopestyle, Big Air and Backcountry as he truly has a passion for his sport! His love for it has taken him all over the world, whether he’s competing or doing stunning films such as his latest PAVED in collaboration with Red Bull and Burton, that are both sponsors of his! He has additional coveted list of sponsors as well as including Oakley, Dove Men + Care, KLM Airlines, and Toyota to name a few.
We caught up with him ahead of some phenomenal competitions including Rockstar Energy Open that took place this month, X Games next month, and the Winter Olympics 2026 in Milano Cortina, Italy - for his 4th appearance - just for starters. We wanted to know more about how skateboarding led to snowboarding, the styles of snowboarding that he enjoys doing, the importance of competitions, how he approaches training, the upcoming season, and how he gives back through the McMorris Foundation!
ATHLEISURE MAG: We know that you enjoy skateboarding. What took you from that sport and drew you to snowboarding?
MARK MCMORRIS: Honestly, we went on a family trip and my brother and I are 2 years a part and my mom was about to have us go on a ski lesson and we saw snowboards for the first time! They were on the wall in the rental zone where you would sign up and get your gear for your lesson. I had skateboarded the entire Summer before and I thought, “I want to stand sideways, I want to be able to skateboard on the snow.”
Thank God our neighbors on our street were skateboarders and kind of got me into that and hooked on that! If not, I might have went into ski lessons! I’m very thankful that I became a boarder and it is a huge kudos and thank you to skateboarding!
AM: At what point did you think that you wanted to go pro and really do this as a career?
MM: I think when I was 12 or 13. I knew that I had potential and that I loved nothing more than being able to snowboard and to be up in the mountains with my friends. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I was definitely plotting that I would be able to stay in the mountains and to enjoy this and to do it for the rest of my life! I didn’t know what avenue I was going to go, but I did have my mind made up that I wanted to snowboard for the rest of my life.
To do so professionally was the dream. I mean, when you’re super passionate about something, it’s crazy how hard the human can work towards it!
AM: 100%!
You’re known for Slopestyle and also Big Air, can you tell us about these disciplines and why you are drawn to them?
MM: Slopestyle is a combination of rails and jumps – kind of what you would see around every single snow park. Most resorts will have a couple of jumps and a couple of rails. That’s what a lot of kids grow up doing in that freestyle of things of riding. There’s less and less half pipes nowadays. Where we grew up in Western Canada, there wasn’t many half pipes if any! So, that’s kind of what I was drawn to and obviously, I liked catching big jumps.
So, catching Big Air, is just one single jump. Slopestyle is a combination of jumps and rails which we really love and are drawn to. That’s kind of what you would see in the movies and things like that. So, I have always had a big love for it, and still do!
AM: Clearly, snowboarding is a full body sport, but do you find yourself doing other fitness methods or workouts that help to optimize you when you are doing this?
MM: For sure! Having mobility and strength in those deep ranges will keep you less injury prone, will make you be able to stay on the mountain longer – so strength and mobility are kind of the 2 bigaboos and I work on those daily. Especially as I get older, it’s always been very important to me and I came up during a time where my elders were like, “you have to stretch and you have to do gym work.” If you want to be a pro, you have to be a pro athlete and you have to have fitness and that kind of strength to be able to do it at the level that we are doing it and to of course have that kind of longevity! You want to try to stay out of that rehab zone!
AM: From what you can tell as we’re talking to you as you’re preparing for the Rockstar Energy Open in Breckenridge – how is it different than other competitions that you have been in as I know this is their first debut in snow.
MM: Yeah. I think it is really exciting that there is a different kind of contest that is happening in an Olympic year where it’s usually very regimented. It’s nice to be able to switch it up and kudos to them to get a unique group of riders together and to have a very unorthodox, fun, creative course that we would normally not see and to have a fun twist on things! I’m really stoked to be here and it’s nice to have this break in the season. You’re still competing and you still want do well and you’re making a plan and trying to do a run. At the same time, it feels a little more laid back and you’re not chasing points to qualify for the Olympics or going for broke on some 80’ jump – it’s all fun sized and extremely creative.
AM: You have the X Games coming up as well as the Winter Olympics. What’s a week of training look like when you are focused on competitions like that. Are you doing anything different?
MM: A week of training during a major competition like the X Games or the Olympics, is a lot of planning around when the practice sessions are. You’re trying to peak at the right times, trying to get the rest you need – when you have a day off, maybe you’re going to do a lift then. Most of the time, it’s a lot of recovery and mobility, breathwork, thoracic spine, and things like that – trying to just keep the chassis in tip top shape. Trying to eat clean and prioritizing a good 8 hour rest, things like that.
I would say that on non-competition weeks, you’re lifting more weights and doing harder gym sessions. But the practice sessions are a ton of impact and a ton of mental stress. So when you get off the hill, you’re in the gym, but it’s more about spinning, recovery, mobility, eating clean, and sleeping.
AM: Wow!
You’re one of the most decorated snowboarders and with the X Games being a few weeks away, what do you love about competing there and what are you looking forward to?
MM: The X Games has been so amazing for my career! I have had great success in Aspen and I love the town – it’s a special place. I can’t say enough good things about X Games and Aspen – it has truly built my career to what it is. I’m just thankful that I am still doing it and my first X Games was in 2011 in Aspen –
AM: Which is crazy because that’s veteran status there!
MM: Yeah, 15 years now! I’m thankful to still be going out there, I’m thankful to still be able to have a shot at winning. I’m feeling healthy and happy and I’m really excited to be able to get back there!
AM: This will be your 4th Olympic appearance. What does it mean to you to represent your country, participate in the opening and closing ceremonies, and to compete on that kind of global stage?
MM: It’s an honor to represent your country! Like you said, it will be my 4th time around which I am extremely proud of. There’s not a single male that I competed with in 2014 at the Sochi Olympics that will be at the Olympics in Italy. I am proud of that longevity and I am proud of the hard work that I have put in. I am really looking forward to going out there and doing my best and riding to the best of my ability. I really feel like that if I do that, I have a good shot at some hardware. I’m excited for family and friends to be around because the last one in 2022, it was quite COVID’d out. It wasn’t a ton of spectators.
When I go to an Olympics, it’s always been pretty focused mode – horse blinders on. Not really like taking in a ton – you’re just kind of focused on what you’re doing. I actually went to Paris for the last Summer Games and it was a lot of fun to be able to take in an Olympics and not to compete! I could just be a fan and I really enjoyed that! So I’m excited for friends and family to come to get that experience and obviously, as I get older and mature more, I know that there is a lot more to life than that, but I will definitely be locked in and focused and I will try to enjoy it as well as the pizza and pasta as well!
AM: Pizza and pasta – that’s our language right there!
MM: Yup! If we’re going to get a big work in, you get to have a carb load!
AM: As someone who has competed all over the world, you have filmed all over the world, are there 3 places that are your top destinations to snowboard in that you can share?
MM: It’s really hard for me and I guess I’m biased, but I will say that Western Canada has got to be in my top 2 if not 1! I think Japan is a place that if you love to ski or snowboard, it’s a must! Anytime after the New Year to late Feb, it’s really hard not to score there. It’s a really special place and it’s neat to go there and to experience that culture. I spend a lot of time on the glaciers in Europe during the Fall for training and I like spending time in Switzerland, Austria – places like that! I really like Italy – their mountains are amazing and the people and the culture are also amazing there. I think that the Alps, Japan and Canada are my 3 favorite places to go.
AM: Because you do travel so much, are there 3 items that you like to take with you that make you feel like you’re at home?
MM: Yeah! You know I return to the same spots a lot over the last 15 years. Something that always comes with me is this little portable blender and then I have juicers all around the world at the places that I stay! Then, there’s my roller! Like I bring that in my carry-on because sometimes I get off the plane and when I am waiting for the next flight, I can just roll my back out and it’s such a good feeling – I love it! I would say that those are obviously my essentials – I mean clearly there’s my passport and things like that.
But the things that I bring that I like, my portable smoothie, I have juicers everywhere and my roller!
AM: What do you think has allowed you to have such longevity in this sport?
MM: I think what has helped me to have such longevity in this sport is keeping a good circle of people around me. Keeping friends, family, agents, and managers that keep it fun for me. That’s really important and people that want to work hard and succeed, you need to surround yourself with people that have like minded goals for sure! Then there’s my overall passion for snowboarding, my love for snowboarding has been something that has definitely pushed me and helped me to elevate my career. My love for the community of snowboarding, and how thankful that I am that it has given me the life that I couldn’t have even dreamed of. It has literally been something that I couldn’t have even dreamed of. It’s really important for me to try and to give back. We do that with the McMorris Foundation and things like that. We just try to break down the barriers of entry. I think that giving back to a community that has given you everything is really important with longevity. Also not just competing my whole career – it’s also breaking off and doing some films and just not doing the same thing constantly – it has kept it fun for me!
AM: You mentioned the McMorris Foundation that you started with your brother, Craig, did you think that it would be where it is at today?
MM: No! Honestly, I’m so thankful that we did it as far back as we did. It kind of seemed like we weren’t big enough to have a foundation when we started it, but that’s not true. We got to meet some incredible people and some generous people and have had quite a big outreach. We’ve had connections to other athletes, we’ve got to do some amazing things and to raise tons of money and I feel like we’re so lucky and have been able to play hockey, to play baseball, to snowboard and to do this and to do that. It taught us a lot in life. You can learn a lot through sport and I want every kid to have that experience and it is something that is near and dear to my heart.
AM: When you’re not competing, how do you take time for yourself?
MM: Um, I am a huge sports person so even when I have time off, I’m engaging in sports whether it’s surfing, playing hockey, skateboarding, going to sporting events! Obviously, spending time with my family – we all like to golf. I like to chill with my friends really and just doing normal stuff. I definitely like to try and experience some of the places that I have been lucky enough to go to, but it is so work focused. So I prioritize that more by going on trips to see places and really immersing myself in the culture which I quite enjoy. It can be like I said, like horse blinders sometimes when you are going to these places and you have such a goal and it’s like work – well it is work because you’re grinding. So, I want to experience these places and more things and those places that I love. I’m a huge food guy, I love food from different places around the world. So I really indulge in that when I can!
AM: You’re also known for snowboarding in the backcountry and last night, we watched PAVED.
MM: Nice!
AM: Yeah, it was the best 42 mins of our time last night watching this in prep for this interview!
MM: Sick! That’s really cool to hear – thank you!
AM: We’ve snowboarded and we are nowhere near your level, but we do like doing it to go out a bit and then to have drinks after.
But watching you and the other athletes in the backcountry at locales around the world was really great to see as we are fans of theirs as well. Tell us about this movie as we know it was done in partnership with Red Bull and Burton and why did you want to participate in this?
MM: I mean, it was a little tricky timing in terms of being in such a big year coming up. It was something that is so important to me in being able to have such a presence in the backcountry and the film world. It was really cool to hear that you watched it because you see how cinematic it is in the backcountry and how it looks. Of course it can look a little scary sometimes.
AM: Oh it was terrifying to see the ones in Alaska – couldn’t imagine it!
MM: Yeah it’s like wow! Snowboarding on these untouched slopes it’s just so majextic and picturesque and honestly, it’s a ton of fun to be out there for me. I love pushing myself like that as well and it’s such a team effort filming. You’re all helping each other and you have each other’s backs! That’s a nice change sometimes – I mean we all have each other’s backs, but we’re also competing. So being in the backcountry with Zeb Powell (X Games G1 + S1) for the first time and long time friends with Danny Davis (X Games G2), Brock Crouch, and Ben Ferguson (X Games S1 + B1) – to have that crew together and just making an awesome film! Thank you to Red Bull and Burton for giving us that rad opportunity! It was something that I definitely couldn’t pass up and I think that they did an awesome job on the movie!
AM: It was beautiful and what came to mind was in watching surfing for years and specifically things like the big waves in thinking about HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, you know about the tow in for surfers. The film illustrated this with drops ins from the helicopter as well as the Ski-Doos - not sure if that is correct...
MM: Oh yeah the Ski-Doo, you’re right – you nailed it! It’s crazy what you can access on those things and that’s a big part of it. Of course, as you saw, the triangle has the Helli on top which is the top mode of transportation! But Ski-Doo, they’re amazing what you can get to. I loved being back there and being able to enjoy that with friends, it’s freaking special and you don’t have that kind of instant gratification. Like if you’re doing a competition and you do well, you’re on that podium. But when you do this and you get clips and you see it all come together, and it’s such a team effort – that’s comparable, if not more gratifying at times.
AM: The film was awesome and the music – everything was just produced and came so well together. It was very cool!
MM: Thank you! I’m happy that you enjoyed it.
AM: You have 24 medals from the X Games, 3 from the Olympics, you’ve won US Opens, you have coveted brands that are sponsoring you, you’ve been in a number of films, and you have left your fingerprint on the sport. What do you want your legacy to be known as when they are looking at Mark McMorris and this incredible career?
MM: Ooo. Someone that pushed the limits. Someone that had a love for the sport and really focused on all sides of the sport and wasn’t just kind of like a one lane kind of guy. Someone who gave back to the community. That would be something that I would be truly proud of!
AM: We appreciate you taking the time, we didn’t realize that you will be training tomorrow in prep for the competition that is taking place this weekend!
MM: No problem! I’m so excited for this cover and it’s so neat that I will be on the cover as there have been some very impressive people that have been in it!
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY | FRONT COVER/BACK COVER Chris Singer/Red Bull Content Pool | PG 16, 27 Frederik Kalbermatten | PG 19, 20, 28, 30, 34, BACK COVER Aaron Blatt | PG 23, 24 Emily Tidwell/Red Bull Content Pool | PG 33, 40, 44 - 51 X Games | PG 36 Christian Pondella | PG 38 Cole Giordano/Red Bull Content Pool | PG 42 Rock Star Energy Open |
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We’re excited to share an interview from our Athleisure Mag Summit Series which gives you an indepth look at a brand that we have had the pleasure of including in our photoshoots from celeb covers, model editorials, and even wearing it personally with a number of looks. Virgins Saints and Angels is a brand that includes a number of accessories that tell an array of stories and adds visual texture to whatever your style may be!
We sat down to talk with Cheryl “Finn” Finnegan, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Virgins Saints and Angels. We talk about the origins of the line, the assortment, her design process, and essentials you need as you begin to build your own collection.
ATHLEISURE MAG: I have to say it is such a pleasure to be able to chat with you finally for this Athleisure Mag Summit Series Virtual Event! This series allows us to talk with great fashion brands that I know our readership and community should know about. Having them hear from the brand, learning about their assortment, and what we can expect from them in upcoming seasons! As you know, I have been a fan of your brand for the past 2 decades from wearing it personally when I’m out and about, for TV segments and also including it in our photoshoots for Athleisure Mag!
In talking with you right now, I am wearing the first ring that I ever received from your collection as that in itself is a full circle moment as it was the first piece that I wrote about for a blog that I started back in 2004 and how was I to know that in 2011, my boyfriend who I am still with who is a Co-Founder of Athleisure Mag, would not only buy this ring without knowing that I knew about it, but he ordered it through Ylang23 which is a retailer that I knew and would talk to off and on when I was working on my site! They knew me and thought it was such serendipity and then around that time, I was in Santo Domingo designing my collab line with Sebago as we were were preparing to launch the collection on HSN and I ended up meeting the leather team that supplied leather for your belts because their company was supplying the leather for my shoes!
CHERYL FINNEGAN: Oh my gosh thank you so much and I just think the world of you!
AM: Same! It’s a brand that I have loved ever since I knew about it, it’s what I wear every single day and I love everything about it. I just want to say thank you for creating it and your aesthetic is something I appreciate and I really love that you are taking the time!
CF: Of course!
AM: So prior to launching Virgins Saints and Angels, I’d love to know about your background because I know you are a fashion veteran as you worked in marketing for Levi Strauss and Co.
CF: Yes, I have been working in fashion since I was probably 16!
AM: Same!
CF: Yeah, starting out in the local department store and moving on from there. I worked with Levi Strauss and I had the best title on the planet! I was called an Image Consultant!
AM: Ok, that is the best title!
CF: It is the best title! I loved handing that card out! So, I was in charge of going out and checking out boutiques. I was searching out for places for us to be in. So I was always on the cusp of what was happening. So when I moved down to San Miguel I originally started doing these plastic woven bags. They were super cute and I reinvented the whole plastic bag in the mercado and I had to brand it because I am a marketing person.
The branding in these plastic bags – I couldn’t sew anything in there and it was cheesy to glue something in there. So I had the weavers who were prisoners, they did that job in the prison system in Mexico – I had them weave the little ring in there and I did a key fob.
AM: Ah I’m seeing where the DNA of VSA came from the minute you said that and now I know why the brand also has key fobs!
CF: Then that key fob turned into a belt buckle which then turned into a ring and then a rosary and that is how it all began!
AM: Yeah, I always wondered what was the piece that sparked everything else – this is fascinating because it’s an extensive assortment that has an array of pieces that speak to each other inside of the collections as well as those adjacent to it, but I couldn’t figure out where it started and what the root was.
CF: Right! I was making these little itty bitty key fobs and I had a sweet little logo under resin and then Fred Segal was buying the bags. But one day he said to me, “do you think that you could just sell me some of the key chains?” I thought that was great because the bags take up major bulk right?
AM: Yes!
CF: So most of the cost of the bag was the shipping. So I thought, I could ship 100 key chains in a little box. So then I started putting in the religious imagery in them. Then I had cute little hangtags on them so it would be Adam and Eve and the cute little tag would say, “They always look better than they taste” or something fun about the Virgin of Miracles or whatever. I had these cute little tags on them and Fred Segal went crazy over them! I was just selling them as fast as they got in and then eventually, it turned into a belt buckle. Literally, I was walking down the street in LA with my belt buckle and Laurence Fishburne’s (Matrix franchise, John Wick franchise, The Amateur) relative stopped me and asked me what I was wearing and I told her that I had just made this belt buckle and it was my prototype. She said that she had to have one and I just took it off my body and I sold it to her!
AM: Oh my God, that is insane!
CF: Then I thought, I think that I could be onto something!
AM: The pieces are so iconic. When we had Lala Kent from Vanderpump Rules as our cover for our MAY ISSUE #29 in 2018, she wore one of your crowns for the cover.
CF: Yes – insane.
AM: It’s just amazing the responses that you get when you’re wearing them even in the wild. On days where I’m running between editor’s appointments and showrooms and I’m just rocking leggings and a top but I have my VSA which takes it to another level, I do get stopped and you have mini conversations about them and it’s so fun to engage with people in that way.
What is your sourcing process like? I do like the elements in the pieces an San Benito and then the Magdalena – where do you get all of these things from?
CF: Well inspiration is local, I mean you’re in Mexico. When I first got here, I didn’t get it. I come from the Midwest –
AM: Same!
CF: Right, your religion is private.
AM: Same! That’s how I was raised too!
CF: I’m from near Chicago.
AM: I’m from Indianapolis originally and obviously, I’m in NY now. But I totally get it. Like growing up there you’re religious, but it’s not something that I would just throw out in conversation.
CF: It’s reserved right?
AM: 1000%
CF: In Mexico, Guadalupe is on every other tattooed man – it’s just very visible. I found it interesting and then I started looking into it more and then I started adding in this Gothic kitsch. I was definitely more of a punk goth chic when I was young. I had the spiky hair and black that was my thing. I definitely have a bit of those elements in every piece that I do. The Magdalena was that ability to wear a rosary and to wrap it around. I particularly love the belt buckles and to me, those were it! That was my go-to piece that I was known for and every celebrity would wear the belt buckle and be pictured in it and you would see it! An earring you may not see necessarily, a ring you may not see, but a belt buckle – you’re going to see that.
AM: I do love the Gothica style of it. I always say that there is this noir/macabre feeling in the pieces that are pleasantly moody where it’s not fully leaning in that direction but you get that essence. I’m not a preppy girl by any means, although I growing up that is how I dressed – hello Midwest. But, I love that I feel when I wear them that it grounds the look, it gives an edge to it. It feels approachable, it has visual texture, and there are always great conversations around the pieces and it goes on for minutes! You see a cross, then there is an interesting design, or some other fun element.
CF: I know! It does kind of push the limits! I will never forget when I was in San Francisco, I was in a store and a woman came in and she told me that her parents had a dining room and it was all in black velvet and had Jesus and Mary in it as they were very religious. This woman was wearing her Virgin of Guadalupe belt buckle and she felt kind of dirty wearing it there – ha! It definitely pushes something.
AM: It does push the limits but you have created this world from the jewelry to the campaign imagery that you put around it that creates a cohesive story and what it means to be in that space. Sometimes our shoots end up popping up so quickly that I may not have time to reach out to your team to put a request in for something that is in a new collection or an archive piece and I will shop my personal VSA collection to bring it to set as it adds that element of drama.
CF: Oh honey! We’re so happy to work with you!
AM: Of course sometimes when there is a tight window you have to make do! You had a cameo set that we pulled a couple of years ago and I had requested various pieces from it as I wasn’t sure how we were going to have it with our model and by the time I saw the looks, I realized that they all needed to be worn together as we shot it at the Algonquin Hotel here in NYC.
CF: Oh yes! I loved that!
AM: Your team was great to work with to get that going. And between the dress and the layers of statement necklaces and the earrings this Cameo Noir moment just really came together. My team was like, wait all of this together and I’m like the whole thing!
CF: You’re too cute!
AM: Where do you start in your design process? Being where you are in Mexico, walking around definitely must be something for the senses and crazy inspiration.
CF: My new collection is just coming out and it’s called Brigid. So, Brigid took me back to my original roots. So when I was first introduced to San Benito, I was in Ireland. I saw the Celtic cross and I remembered being in San Benito and seeing the San Benito Monastery. That was the Celtic cross and I have Celtic roots. So Brigid takes me back to the first trip in Ireland when I was first introduced to that Celtic cross in a town called Kildare. Killdare happens to be the town where Brigid is. I wanted to do something that was very Irish and I started looking back into it and the famous Celtic cross in Ireland is in Kildare and Brigid, she is the only Goddess who is also a Saint. So she is a pagan Goddess and a Saint at the same time.
AM: Interesting!
CF: She is all 4 elements. She is Air, Water, Fire, and Earth.
AM: Now it makes sense with the images that you sent knowing that!
CF: Exactly right? So, I’m tying things back to my Celtic roots but yet, it is so very Mexican inspired for the pieces. All of my pieces are handmade!
AM: That’s another thing that I love about your brand! It already comes out with that heritage aspect to it due to how it is crafted. It is polished not like something that is mass produced, but in a way where you feel that an artisan made it and it is passed down to you. Every time I put it on – even if it is a new piece or one I haven’t worn in a while, you have this feeling that is warm and as if it something that you have had for years.
CF: You need to come down here and come down to the workshop!
AM: I want to come and see this, I would probably freak out!
CF: All of my clients that come to the workshop, they always say, “you don’t charge enough for your pieces.” They are blown away!
AM: I have to say that I have always felt that your pieces are a great price point; however, you have all the people that are making it by hand –
CF: It’s a lot! I have the same workers for 25 years.
AM: Really?
CF: Yes, the same people! They are the best of what they do. They love when I bring a magazine photo in and show them. They love seeing Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus or a number of the people that have worn their brand. They all have their little alters at their work stations. They really put a lot of love in what they do.
AM: When you make a collection each season like Brigid, how long is that process from concept to finish?
CF: It’s a lot. It can take – Brigid is coming out on Feb 1st and what we do is that we always wear the pieces beforehand. So after awhile in wearing a piece, you can see how it feels and you may say, this isn’t right. So we have to change and we have 2 pieces that we are right now in the process of getting ready. For Brigid, we have been working since Oct on this. It takes a long time and as a designer, I’m working all of the time. You don’t just stop your brain from being creative right? Every time you are looking at something, you’re saying, how does this translate?
It’s very interesting and I love it. I sit with the workers, I don’t hand them a sketch. I sit with them while we are making the pieces. I don’t have my cell phone with me or my laptop, I sit with them and I say, let’s do this and let’s do that. Then, they give me ideas, and we do it together.
AM: I did the same thing with my shoes as there was so much to learn by being able to talk with the artisans that have been doing this for years. I was able to share my vision, how I wanted the leathers arranged and then to watch them put it together, offer directions and adjustments to make a beautiful collection that I sold on HSN. So being in Santo Domingo and to have that experience really opened my eyes to craftsmanship. They knew that product and it was a pleasure to work with them. They knew that leather better than anybody, they knew about the last and so many components of the shoe.
CF: Yes! I have to say that it is very different than going to a factory in China where they are throwing things in a machine and spitting it out. There was a period where there was a copy cat of mine and they were making it in China and you could tell that it wasn’t the same.
AM: You knew the difference! Just the weight alone. It always surprises me that the pricing of your collection is so reasonable and then when you think about the hand made element as well, it’s amazing that your prices aren’t higher.
CF: People know once you start wearing it and playing with it. Our pieces in addition to being hand made are also hand polished. In this industry, when people say handmade – what does that mean because there could be elements that are and others on a machine. I do such a volume that I am fortunate that I am able to keep the prices at where they’re at. That definitely helps and we have a nice kind of flow to our factory – I don’t call it a factory I call it an atelier. We have about 13 people who work with us and every piece has its own hand antiquing. I don’t like that usually in jewelry when you antique it, they throw it in a black pot and they tumble it. I don’t like that. I like to brush it on by hand and I tell them where I want it to be more intense and where I want it to be less intense.
AM: Oh wow that explains something else I have always wondered. It’s yet another little detail that I am learning about you and the brand! I always noticed that it wasn’t the same all over in terms of my rings as I have more in this category than other portions of your line. So I will see certain parts of the ring will look one way or another when I am turning my hand or picking something up. I just thought that my skin was making it do that!
CF: There is a designer that wore my cuff to death in the shower, swimming in the ocean and I ran into her in NY and I said Nicole, would you like for me to replate that for you? It was black! And she was like, it’s my natural patina piece – my personal patina! I was like ok!
AM: Oh wow!
Who would you say is the VSA customer if you had to put a person in a category or categories?
CF: I know! There is the woman that I think she is that is this punk rock cool chick. But it’s so difficult because we have people from Miley Cyrus to Maria Shriver to Marilyn Manson. It is the most bizarre brand. A marketing company will come to me and say who is your customer and I really know that we are all over the board. We are being included in the upcoming season of Euphoria –
AM: Oh yeah, that’s huge! It’s their 3rd season!
CF: Yeah and they’re using my pieces all over! Yeah! So I have that kind of client and I have no idea as I have never seen that show.
AM: I did try to watch it but I feel like the show the cast when it first started they were like 16 but they’re definitely show the cast going through it. They’re drinking, doing drugs, navigating relationships. For me, watching younger kids do that isn’t for me versus seeing the same thing done with adults. But it is an acclaimed show and I know people really love it! I mean Zendaya (Challengers, Dune franchise, Spider-Man franchise), Colman Domingo (The Four Seasons, Fear the Walking Dead, Sing Sing) – so now I feel like I need to get on that train.
CF: I know! I have to watch it.
AM: So now that VSA is in it, I have to support it.
CF: You’re not going to see Zendaya in it but it’s another main character –
AM: Could be Sydney Sweeney (White Lotus, The Housemaid, Eden) as I know she is in it.
CF: I don’t know, but the main character is going to be wearing a signature rosary as that is her thing. You’ll see a belt buckle and you will see everything. I don’t want to say too much but I am excited.
I have also had a number of programs contact me as there is this whole witchy aesthetic that has been going on lately. When VSA started, Passion of the Christ came out, The Da Vinci Code so there was a lot of the religious thing, then we moved into Disney because there was Once Upon a Time –
AM: Yes! Loved that show and the pieces for that were huge as that was such a major collab with Disney!
CF: I fit in with those things personally. Then things got a little boring and now there is this whole witch thing going on. So there’s a movie called Forbidden Fruit that they chose my pieces for and then there is this new series that they are filming in Canada right now and I sent them 150 pieces. They went crazy for everything!
AM: I would love to see them in White Lotus, I don’t believe they are in production just yet. When they were filming in Thailand for S3, I was reached out to by someone working with them and they were looking for designers to partner with. I don’t know if it was for the show or for promotional items that would flow coming off of that and I told them then that they should talk with you and that I would be happy to connect the 2.
CF: Love it! I will tell you that my team is so professional and you have worked with them so many times. We say that we will have it on X date – we do, we have the return label, everything is packaged clean, we do what we say we will do. I don’t know how many people in the industry do that.
AM: Not a lot! Many times I have the request with a buffer and you’ll have some people still missing that window – so crazy!
CF: They’re kind of taken back at how easy it is to work with us!
AM: Oh yes, you guys package it nicely and everything is just ready to go. I find that in this business even though some people don’t do things to standard, when you are not a massive brand or with a massive firm or whatever the case may be, you have to be more on point and easy to work with so that you can continue to navigate and I always appreciate when people take care and pride in what they do! It’s about the details and the follow through!
CF: I also have this immense archive!
AM: I was just going to ask you about that!
CF: It’s massive – it’s crazy! So this program called The Body that is coming out, they shared the storyline and I told them that I would pick all of the pieces so they could give me direction. I gave them my mood board with all of the pieces. The pieces I showed them were not on the website. I can just pull from the archive and it’s so fun and most people don’t know that I do head pieces – I have thousands! I’m not going to put them on my website. People don’t necessarily want to spend a $1,000 on a headpiece that they will wear once.
AM: But it is there should they want it!
CF: It’s been so much fun and I can’t believe that I have had this life.
AM: Your photoshoots are productions in themselves and I get it as we do a number of them here at Athleisure Mag. What is that like as they are immersive and they have such a storyline and you had one that always comes to mind which was a Last Supper motif.
CF: I know! That one was so controversial. I would have surprise photoshoots with my team and that one was a team photoshoot.
AM: Oh wow!
CF: They didn’t know it was going to happen we were just eating like we normally do. I do them at my house, so I have the MUA sneaking in, the costume guy, the hair guy – everyone is setting up. So I let everyone know this is it – the Last Supper photoshoot. I have Mariana there with her long black hair naked, covering her breasts with the black tears and huge belt buckle. We have 12 women dressed super elegantly with the hairdos and I wanted a crystal turkey – the food had to be crystalized! We have so much fun with these shoots and they are all at the office or at my house!
AM: I always enjoy seeing your campaigns, photoshoots, and videos. There have been times that I have used them in terms of creating my moodboards for a shoot or concept. It’s art and it has everything in there.
CF: I go outside of it. When I do Marie Antoinette, she’s going to have the white makeup on and we’re going to go all out. Forget about the hybrid! I’m the real deal!
AM: What do you feel are the 3 key pieces that someone should have if they are just starting our their VSA collection?
CF: Ok, well for certain my Magdalena which is a multi-beaded piece that is super versatile and the first necklace that I designed! It’s still in the line and still my #1 piece. Lady Gaga wears it, Madonna wears it, everyone! That was the necklace that Britney Spears put me on the map. Then when she was going through that period of time where it was about Save Britney Spears was all over the Internet. She decided that she was going to pose naked on the Internet with only my necklace – she is like Maria Magdalena reincarnated. Lady Gaga wore it for her half time show and people choose to wear my pieces during key moments. Miley Cyrus wore that necklace for forever. It means something to them.
I would definitely say a VSA ring. I would also say a belt buckle. These are great statements. A lot of people think that with a belt buckle you have to have a skinny waist – no you don’t. You can wear your belt buckle high on the waist if you want our buckles are big it’s somehow an illusion!
AM: I tell people it’s a look that should be incorporated.
CF: Those 3 items the Magdalena the beaded necklace, the buckle, and the ring. My rings are statement pieces as you know – don’t be afraid of them!
AM: I say that too. You get used to wearing them and I don’t leave the house without them! I would feel weird leaving the house without them. The few times I do, they are probably in my bag waiting to be put back on. I workout in them and they sit in the little ring tray when I am getting my nails done.
CF: It’s like protection.
AM: I do feel that they are a bit like armor when I put them on. I have had them for so long and I like being able to choose a nice arrange of rings as I tend to wear 4 and always 2 from VSA. The fact that you have archives I do want to dig into those as a few years ago I was looking through that with one of your team members because we thought a project was going to take place and I couldn’t believe pieces I was drooling over that I had never seen on the website.
CF: Oh yeah the archive!
AM: Right and to your point, I was like we need to go to San Miguel because I can only imagine!
CF: You and Paul need to come down you would have so much fun! I love how versatile the pieces are the people that love this brand. I remember when Tim McGraw was in a photoshoot and he was styled in various pieces. The shearling coat was Dolce Gabbana and the best photo of all is a full page shot of him in his lounge chair in his office. He had his belt buckle on – VSA belt buckle and his hat and his favorite denim shirt and the credits said that the buckle was designer’s own. He was so proud of wearing that piece. I don’t care that he didn’t say my name –
AM: I remember seeing that picture and looking at the credits and I knew it was VSA!
CF: Yeah! That’s the thing – he chose that outfit because that was the picture and he looked so relaxed and so great.
We get phone calls and emails of people claiming that the pieces have done something to save their life – it is bizarre. We had a woman from NYC call the office and she was crying. She told me that she was weaing the Guadalupe belt buckle in Central Park and walked up to a woman crying on a park bench. She put her hand on her shoulder and said can I help you? The woman looked up and saw the belt buckle and said, “you just did.” The woman on the bench had prayed to Guadalupe asking for a sign or she would end her own life.
AM: Oh my.
CF: I mean, we were all crying by the end of that story. It was just amazing and we get these stories. People from Patagonia that had a life changing event that happened while wearing the necklace and now they aren’t going to take it off. You can’t believe some of the things that we hear and there is a power behind it.
AM: I always feel settled when I wear them it’s putting on those last elements to take on the world like armor.
CF: Listen to us!
AM: I’ve always felt that when you wear an accessory and especially when it comes to jewelry and that skin to skin contact, there is what the designer intended by designing it and then it merges with who you are as a person and then it becomes like a totem in many respects. You wear it every day, stories and moments in time are being associated and there is something there.
CF: I think jewelry does that way more than a sweater or something of that nature.
AM: Totally! I think it’s like when you walk into someone’s home, you feel a vibe because you are in the space of the inhabitants that eat, sleep, and live there and the home becomes an amplifier of the energy and sentiments that are there.
CF: Exactly.
AM: So the pieces that you’re wearing, because it is everyday and next to your skin – it is a thing.
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PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS | PG 56 - 65 Virgins Saints and Angels | PG 73 - 75 Paul Farkas
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As we close the year, we know that this time of year is one where we spend even more time celebrating various moments and enjoying eating at phenomenal restaurants that only enhance the memories that we share with friends, family, and colleagues! In this month’s Athleisure Mag, we make our way to DC to sit down with Owner/Chef Ryan Ratino to talk about Bresca, their tasting menu, and what we can expect when we swing by for our next visit!
ATHLEISURE MAG: We’ve had the pleasure of chatting with you before for with Jônt and Ômo by Jônt which is also part of Hive Hospitality. Currently, your restaurant group is now tied for the most Michelin-starred concepts of any hospitality group in America (4) and the 2nd group with the most Michelin stars (5) in America (with Thomas Keller having the most), what does it mean to you to have these distinctions?
CHEF RYAN RATINO: I have always had the utmost respect for the guide and the chefs who are highlighted in it - it means so much to me, our teams, and our restaurants. The designation is globally known, and it is one of the benchmarks in the industry. It is a reflection of our hard work and tenacity in this industry.
AM: Bresca has had 1 Michelin star every year since 2019! How do you balance navigating your goals, interests, and needs for the restaurant with those elements that involve maintaining the Michelin star?
CHEF RR: It is a validation that our hard work has paid off, year after year. Receiving the star year after year enables us to be more creative and more attentive to details - it just makes us better at what we do; and that for me, is balance. I also enjoy time off playing golf and fishing and have always been into physical fitness when I need time away.
AM: In looking at your mission for Hive Hospitality, you are focused on pioneering the future of hospitality, delivering exceptional experiences, and practicing environmental safety. Why are these so important to you?
CHEF RR: It is a pillar of the our company to inspire our guests - as well as give back to the industry and lead by example. While we are driven by passion, it is important to me and our teams to push the envelope a little further with hard work - one of the Midwestern values that were instilled in me from a young age.
AM: What cuisine is offered at Bresca and what ingredients or spices are indicative of it?
CHEF RR: Seasonal, plus the most responsibly sourced and finest ingredients from the Mid-Atlantic and beyond, while using cooking techniques rooted in France with a touch of regional influence.
AM: Tell us about the ambiance of the restaurant and what diners can expect when they come in?
CHEF RR: Fun - the most important thing of all - as well as personalized warm service. The restaurant is buzzy & lively - the chatter of the guests and the dining room teams working together is the music of a french bistro.
AM: Tell us about your 3 Course Menu!
CHEF RR: The three course menu is a celebration of seasonal ingredients, where we feature some of the local farms what we have worked with for years, as well as inspiration from my childhood favorite snacks and inspiration from my home state of Ohio.
AM: On your A la Carte menu, what are 3 items that we should have our eye on?
CHEF RR: Rohan Duck à la Presse (when on the menu -a signature), “Smoke in Chimney” Trout, Berkshire Pork tenderloin, and Brioche stuffed Amish Chicken.
AM: What are 3 cocktails that you suggest that we should have our eye on?
CHEF RR: Bananas for Coffee, Oyster-tini, and Buttered Beet Manhattan.
AM: Tell us about your wine program.
CHEF RR: Our wine program includes some of the very best wines from around the world - and our sommeliers taste every single day to find the most interesting, plus the ones that work best with our food. We have had relationships with some of these producers for years.
AM: What should we know about Restaurant Week and what can you tell us about the menus that will be available during this time?
CHEF RR: We’ll be offering Restaurant month starting on Friday, January 2nd to February 1st, with exclusive 3 and 5 course tasting menus, each one designed to showcase the season’s boldest, most expressive flavors.
AM: Will there be events coming up that we should keep an eye out for as last month you had the Bresca Wine Dinner Series?
CHEF RR: Stay tuned:)- follow us at @brescaDC on Instagram.
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Carmel Retreats opened its doors in 2020, after owner, Barry Shimo Farb navigated his own journey with cancer and realized how deeply restorative it was to spend time on this property. Guests told him, “I didn’t know how exhausted I was until I exhaled here,” and he felt that during his own recovery. He wanted to create a place designed around that moment — where the surroundings are healing.
Carmel-by-the-Sea is one of those rare places where nature and creativity comes together. This village sits beneath a veil of Monterey pines and ocean fog, and there’s a calm that you feel within minutes of arriving. The air smells of sea salt, woodsmoke, and blooming jasmine. Artists, writers, and wanderers have come there for a century to find clarity and inspiration - and that spirit is still alive.
Many people are living at a pace that our bodies are not designed to sustain. Recharging is not just an indulgence, but it’s maintenance. Barry believes that when we step out of our loops and into a quieter environment, our minds reorganize, our creativity resurfaces, and our emotional bandwidth expands. He believes that rested people make better decisions, show up more fully for the people they love, and feel more at home in their own lives.
There are 2 historic cottages: Cuddle Doon and Wee Hoos are private sanctuaries. They’re filled with soft natural textures, warm lighting, and handcrafted details that encourage you to slow down. You’ll find a fireplace, spa-inspired bathrooms, deep reading chairs, and quiet corners for journaling, meditation, or simply listening to the ocean in the distance.
Guests receive a curated wellness welcome basket, a personalized retreat guide, locally roasted coffee, organic teas, aromatherapy blends, yoga mats, and a weekly ritual schedule designed to help guests unwind the minute they arrive.
Retreats can be tailored to your own rhythms. Guests can enjoy guided meditation, breathwork, yin yoga, forest bathing walks through the pines, sound healing, journaling prompts, cold-plunge moments at the beach, and evening reflection rituals by the fireplace.
For couples or small groups, they also offer intention-setting ceremonies, relationship-centered practices, and creative expression sessions like photography walks or intuitive sketching. Everything is designed to meet you exactly where you are.
We like an initiative that they have known as Postcards for Healing. Anyone can nominate someone in their life who is coming through illness, grief, or major life transition to receive a free 2–3 night stay at Carmel Retreats. They use the “trapped dates” between bookings — nights that would otherwise sit empty — and turn them into an offering of rest, dignity, and care. It’s a way of letting the property give back to people who need a soft place to land.
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY | Carmel Retreats
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Heli-skiing with SEABA is about small group, high-touch adventure in some of the most expansive, untouched terrain on the planet, with guides who migrate to Haines each winter specifically because this zone delivers the kind of lines people dream about.
We spoke with Nick Trimble, Co-Owner, Founder, and Logistics Manager, as he has been involved in the ski and snowboard industry for over 30 years.
Heli-skiing is using a helicopter as your “chairlift” so you can access big-mountain backcountry terrain that you simply cannot reach at a resort. Instead of lapping groomers or crowded bowls, you’re flying into remote alpine zones, landing on ridgelines, and skiing or riding long, sustained pitches of untracked Alaskan powder.
What makes heli-skiing with SEABA different is scale and intimacy - the terrain footprint stretches roughly 250 nautical miles from Southeast Alaska up toward the BC/Yukon border, but the operation itself is deliberately small, with a maximum of 4 groups per helicopter and a 4:1 guest-to-guide ratio. That means as a guide, it’s possible to tailor lines, pace, and objectives to each group, so customers feel like they’re pioneering first single descents tailored to them rather than following a conga line down a single run.
SEABA chose Haines because it has a rare combination of coastal snowpack, steep relief, and relatively easy access. The maritime influence builds deep, stable snow on the classic Alaskan spines and ramps people see in films, while the town itself remains a low-key, authentic Alaskan community.
From a guest’s perspective, Haines is appealing because it feels like a genuine adventure basecamp: you’re looking straight out at the mountains you’ll be flying into, watching weather move through the fjords, and then 20 - 30 minutes later, you’re standing on top of them. The fact that SEABA’s permit area extends far beyond just one valley, and links up with partnering zones, gives our guides multiple weather and aspect options to find good snow even when conditions change.
On an all-inclusive SEABA trip, the idea is that once you arrive in Haines, almost everything tied to your ski logistics, safety, weather, and terrain is handled for you so you can focus on why you traveled there in the first place, having the best ski day of your life. A typical day starts with breakfast, followed by a guide-led safety briefing and daily conditions update, then a short transfer to the helicopter staging area where groups cycle through flights for multiple runs.
Back at base, the all-inclusive approach covers lodging arrangements in Haines and meals tied to the package, plus ground transfers associated with the ski program, but guests still have flexibility to explore local restaurants and the town on their own.
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PHOTOS COURTESY | SEABA
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ALL’S FAIR
Hulu Originals
Hulu
If you have yet to watch S1 of All’s Fair, a splashy legal drama filled with a stellar cast, as well as phenomenal wardrobes, this is defintiely a series for you! Seeing a powerhouse group of women taking on cases, navigating their own firm, and then having stellar guest stars - it’s the guilty pleasure worth watching! Before the end of the season, viewers learned that this show has already been greenlit for S2 which gives us something to look forward to! You can stream all episodes now, whether it’s your first time or you want to revisit some of your favorite moments!
THE COPENHAGEN TEST
Peacock Originals
Peacock
Just in time before the year comes to a close, the much anticipated thriller series, The Copenhagen Test debuts on Dec 27th.
We meet Alexander Hale (Simu Liu), a first-generation Chinese-American analyst, who finds himself stuck downstairs at his top-secret spy agency, The Orphanage.
Once he realizes that he may be the mole they’re hunting for, he realizes that his eyes and ears have been hacked. He feels that the only way to survive is to act as if he is unaware of the hack, he works with his agency to hunt. He also works with his agency to see who is involved in what happened to him. This takes place while The Orphanage creates a fake world around him, assigning him a new “girlfriend,” promoting him to a new dangerous mission and sending him down a rabbit hole where it’s not clear what’s real and what’s fake in his own life. As he navigates his conflicting worlds, he knows that he will have to tak autonomy of his life to see how he will truly be able to operate as he continues to go through his ever changing reality.
JAY KELLY
Netflix Original
Netflix
When you’re the biggest star on the planet who can take on whatever role you wish to play, you have a team of people who ensures that your able to go about your day seamlessly - you don’t get the chance to really think about your life and place within it.
We meet Jay Kelly (George Clooney) who has a life that anyone would want to live in. But he realizes that as connected as he is to his industry and projects, his real life is one that he is not as connected as he would like to be. In taking a trip to try and spend time with his daughter, we realize the sacrifices that Jay, as well as entourage, have taken on in order to support his career and stardom. Jay even has to re-examine what he thinks he knows about the team that supports him and how he is there for them as well.
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TAHINI BABY: BRIGHT, EVERYDAY RECIPES THAT HAPPEN TO BE VEGETARIAN
Avery
Eden Grinshpan
We enjoy Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes and in Tahini Baby: Bright Everyday Recipes That Happen To Be Vegetarian, there are an array of dishes that are veggie forward that we are looking forward to making, and of course, eating! The fact that we can enjoy these shareable plates that have layers of flavor that are tangy, tart, rich, and creamy. We’re looking forward to making Tahini, Lemon-Braised Leek Masabacha with Za’atar Laffa, and Harissa-Roasted Cauliflower.
In this cookbook, there are recipes that will take you from breakfast to dinner and everything thing in between! You’ll find items to enjoy for solo dining, your significant other or even if you’re hosting a viewing party at home with friends who are coming by!
BEST OFFER WINS
Celadon Books
Marisa Kashino
As we’re closing out the year, we’re always thinking of books that are on our list to read. In Best Offer Wins, we find ourselves in the suburbs of Washington, DC. where in a period of 18 monts, Margo Miyake, a publicist has lost 11 houses in a number of bidding wars. When she ends up getting a tip of a house, in a perfect neighborhood!
The thought of leaving her cramped apartment that she lives in with her husband as well as making plans to have a child in the future, means that she would be a step closer to having her life where she would like for it to be.
She knows that she needs to buy this house before it is open to the public and she knows that a competitive offer is needed.
She begins to get to know the homeowners, she hopes to win them over and with whatever snags come along the way, she is determined to make sure that she gets what she wants.
PRETTY BROWN EYES: MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE
Independently Published
Nicole Doswell-Busano
In Pretty Brown Eyes: More Than A Pretty Face, we think this is a great gift to give the littles in your life if you are looking for a great holiday gift. Nicole, the author of this book, is in Fashion PR and wrote this book for her daughter as a means to empower her! The fact that she is a beautiful little girl is great; however, she wanted to make sure that she understood that she has so many qualities that make her amazing beyond her looks.
This story, which is perfect to read to your little during nap time, bedtime, or other moments, allows you to meet this curious toddler who gets to know what makes her special from kindness, courage, creativity, and so much more!
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