Honoring and congratulating Philadelphia natives, Questlove, Jazmine Sullivan, and the Philadelphia Orchestra for a stellar 2022 award season, collectively winning an Oscar and four Grammys for outstanding contributions to music and film.

WHEREAS, Jazmine Sullivan, a singer-songwriter and North Philadelphia native from the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, won her first-ever Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album, for her critically acclaimed LP,

Heaux Tales

and Best Vocal Performance for

Pick Up Your Feelings

.

WHEREAS, After the early success of Bust Your Windows and Need You Bad and a nearly six-year hiatus, Jazmine released

Heaux Tales

on January 8, 2021, with first-week sales of 42,000 copies, debuting at number four on the US

Billboard

200

chart, becoming her highest-peaking album,

with its standout hit “Pick up Your Feelings”, Jazmine’s first ever Gold Single, receiving two nominations alone; and

WHEREAS, Quest Love aka Ahmir Thompson, University of the Arts alum, famed Philly DJ, talented drummer and founding member of the Roots, , made his directorial debut in 2021 with the Summer of Soul, a feature-length film exploring the

Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969

,

and featuring performances by

Stevie Wonder

,

Mahalia Jackson

,

Nina Simone

,

Sly and the Family Stone

, and other top soul, jazz, gospel, and Latin artists of the era

, that ultimately snagged an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and a Grammy for Best Music Film; and

WHEREAS, Debuting to widespread critical praise, Summer of Soul won a host of other awards, including

both the US Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for documentary at the 2021

Sundance Film Festival

,

Best Documentary Feature

at the

6th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

, sweeping six awards at that ceremony, and

Best Documentary

at the

75th British Academy Film Awards,

and set a new Sundance Film Festival record for documentary film acquisition price when Searchlight Pictures acquired the film for distribution in theaters and on

Hulu; and

WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor was awarded a Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance for its rendition of "Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3" ; and

WHEREAS, The City of Philadelphia continues to be a standout for arts and culture with a global reach that cannot be denied; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Hereby honors and congratulates Philadelphia natives, Questlove, Jazmine Sullivan and the Philadelphia Orchestra for a stellar 2022 award season, collectively winning an Oscar and four Grammys for outstanding contributions to music and film.

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