When the Grammy awards ceremony happens later this month in Los Angeles, a former Clevelander will sit in the audience hoping to hear his name called to take home one of those gilded gramophones.was born in Singapore and raised in Malaysia, where he loved to draw Pokemon characters as a boy. When his family immigrated to America, his artistic talent helped him make new friends.
Awalludin's family moved to Parma Heights, where he attended Valley Forge High School and took art and design classes."I figured I could make logos and cover art for local people that I would see on Myspace in Cleveland," he said. That experience led Awalludin, now living in Brooklyn, to design art for rappers like Wiz Khalifa, Ludacris and Meek Mill."Meek's was pretty unique in the sense that they almost had something done already, and last minute he wanted something a little different with the typography on his album. So we had to get it done within days," he said.Awalludin designed the album cover art for Mill's"Championships," which received a 2020 Grammy nomination for best rap album.
So back on that November morning last year when the Grammy nominations were announced, Awalludin had another surprise.
WCPN NickyChulo is gonna win this one day. I'm speaking it into existence.
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