For the eighth consecutive year, projects in which Paul Christensen and his wife Donna Christensen served as Line and Television Producer, have been nominated for a Grammy® by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences® (NARAS®). In a special news conference last month at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, the Recording Academy’s President and CEO, Michael Greene, announced the nominations in the Gospel Music Category.
One nomination was for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, from a live concert recording and video project for
Malaco Records, Jackson, MS, featuring recording artist, Dorothy Norwood, titled “Ole Rickety Bridge.” The second Grammy® nomination for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album, resulted from a Verity Records live recording and concert video project involving Hezekiah Walker
and the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir, titled, “Family Affair.” Both projects were released as CDs and became the soundtracks for the Long Form Videos produced by the Christensens.
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced during the 43rd Annual Grammy® Awards to be telecast on February 21, 2001. The three hour show will originate from the Staples Center in Los Angeles and be broadcast on CBS-TV at 8 PM (EST/PST). The show will reach a world wide 
audience of nearly 2 billion people in 180 countries. Each year the nominees and winners are chosen by their industry peers, the 16,000+ voting members of the Recording Academy®.
In addition to the Grammy® nominated sound tracks, the videos produced by the Christensens have enjoyed a high ranking on the Billboard Magazine Video Charts. During the company’s 28 year history, these awards represent 
the 16th and 17th Grammy® nominations Omega projects have received, as well as the tenth and eleventh nominations during the past eight years.
The nine other recent nominations were a 1999 Dottie Peoples project for AIR Gospel Records titled, “God Can and God Will;” a Malaco Records 1999 live recording and video with the Mississippi Mass Choir, titled, “Emmanuel, God with Us;” a Fred Hammond project for Verity Records in 1998, titled, “Pages of Life I and II;” a 1997 live concert by Verity artist, Hezekiah Walker titled, “Live in London;” a 1996 Benson Records project with Hezekiah Walker, Yolanda Adams and Fred Hammond; a Malaco Records recording of Rev. James Moore and the Mississippi Mass Choir in 1995; a Malaco project by Rev. Moore and a Warner Alliance live recording of O’Landa Draper, both in 1994; and a 1993 Blackberry Records sound track and video, featuring The Canton Spirituals.
