{"id":4034,"date":"2022-04-04T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/a-kirby-song-cover-just-won-a-grammy-the-verge\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:20:51","slug":"a-kirby-song-cover-just-won-a-grammy-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/a-kirby-song-cover-just-won-a-grammy-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kirby song cover just won a Grammy – The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman won for their arrangement of Meta Knight\u2019s Revenge<\/em>
Kirby is officially a Grammy award winner<\/a> \u2014 well, at least in spirit. The pink, spherical creature helped earn Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman a Grammy for the best arrangement, instrumental, or acapella for their take on Meta Knight\u2019s Revenge<\/em> from the 1996 classic Kirby Superstar<\/em>. The arrangement was performed by the aptly-named 8-Bit Big Band, a 30 to 65-member orchestra that specializes in putting its own spin on video game music.
In the past, the 8-Bit Big Band<\/a> has performed Zelda\u2019s Lullaby<\/em> from the Ocarina of Time, Fourside<\/em> from Earthbound<\/em>, Big Blue<\/em> from F-Zero<\/em>, and much more. You can listen to the group\u2019s performance of the reimagined Meta Knight\u2019s Revenge<\/em> in the embed above \u2014 it\u2019s a real jazzy take on the original track<\/a>, and dare I say, sounds even better than Nintendo\u2019s remake<\/a> included in Super Smash Bros<\/em>.
Video game music isn\u2019t nominated for a Grammy very often, but this win is especially timely considering the recent release of Kirby and the Forgotten Land<\/em><\/a>. In 2011, the song Baba Yetu <\/em>from Civilization IV<\/em> won a Grammy<\/a> after getting re-released in a separate album. Journey<\/em> was nominated for best score soundtrack<\/a> for visual media in 2012, but ended up losing to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em><\/a>.
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Filed under:Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman won for their arrangement of Meta Knight\u2019s RevengeKirby is officially a Grammy award winner \u2014 well, at least in spirit. The pink, spherical creature helped earn Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman a Grammy for the best arrangement, instrumental, or acapella for their take on Meta Knight\u2019s Revenge from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}