Grammy Awards: Domi & JD Beck on 'crazy' nomination

The archetypal happening you should cognize astir Domi & JD Beck is that it's OK to beryllium jealous of them.

Domi is 22. JD's 19. They've performed with artists similar Ariana Grande and Snoop Dogg and are signed to Anderson .Paak's label.

Oh, and they're nominated for 2 Grammy Awards.

JD, a drummer, and keyboardist Domi person been called a "supersonic jazz duo" by the media.

Their euphony is improvised and features influences from dozens of antithetic artists and genres. It's hard to describe.

But erstwhile asked to, successful 3 words, Domi's effect is quick.

"It's terrible. It's boring. It sucks," she tells BBC Newsbeat.

The 2nd happening you should cognize astir Domi and JD is that you shouldn't instrumentality everything they accidental seriously.

Take their website - it says Domi is simply a 12-year-old theoretical physicist from France and JD a six-year-old sheep researcher from Texas.

Part of that is existent - Domi is French and JD grew up successful Dallas.

"Totally fake news," admits JD. "But if we judge it to beryllium true, that's each that matters."

Like their tracks, Domi and JD are decidedly playful and unconventional, but what they are superior astir is making music.

Both person been playing since they were children, practising for hours and, successful Domi's case, studying astatine Berklee, successful Boston, 1 of the world's apical euphony schools.

They gained reputations arsenic talented performers and yet ended up performing unneurotic successful 2018.

Domi & JD's jam sessions were seen by shaper Thundercat, who invited them to execute astatine a festival featuring Ariana Grande.

It's besides wherever they met Anderson .Paak. He liked what helium heard.

Since then, they accidental the 3 of them person been "inseparable", and Domi and JD were the archetypal enactment signed to his label.

He's 1 of the artists to lend his dependable to their medium Not Tight, which is up for a Grammy.

As you mightiness person guessed by now, Domi and JD aren't excessively disquieted astir winning.

"We benignant of disregard each awards oregon things similar that," says JD.

"I don't privation that to beryllium the crushed we're making euphony or, you know, astatine slightest making decisions musically.

"I consciousness similar a batch of euphony nowadays is competitory successful a mode that's like, 'How galore radical tin we amusement this to?' Rather than: 'How galore radical tin we marque the champion euphony for?'."

But being nominated for Best New Artist, alongside acts similar Måneskin and Wet Leg, does bring contention and comparisons.

It's besides got radical talking astir however JD and Domi are bringing jazz to a much mainstream audience.

"Yeah, it's weird," says JD.

"And I conjecture if it reaches the masses, that's cool. I'm much disquieted astir making the champion imaginable music."

Domi adds: "If it reaches people, it's truly cool. But first, it needs to beryllium what we wanted."

"And it ne'er volition beryllium due to the fact that we're perfectionists, and we hatred everything we do," says JD.

And portion they haven't got their sights connected a trophy, they bash admit that being up for an grant is beauteous cool.

"It's not each twelvemonth that you person an instrumental set nominated for Best New Artist," says JD.

"Because, you know, vocal domination."

"I don't attraction astir winning," says Domi, "but conscionable being nominated shows that immoderate radical care, truthful it's cool."

JD says: "If we bash win, oregon if we don't, I deliberation we're conscionable yet much assured successful the decisions we make.

"And I deliberation that's going to payment us, musically, astatine least, due to the fact that we tin truly instrumentality to our gut."

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