Christian artists Sarah Kelly, Skillet and Israel and New Breed received their first GRAMMY Award nominations Wednesday. The 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held Feb. 13 in Los Angeles and broadcast at 8 p.m. EST on CBS.

Kelly, a Gotee artist, received a nod for Take Me Away in the Best Rock Gospel Album. She also is Gotee's first new artist to be nominated for a GRAMMY. The band Skillet was nominated in the Best Rock Gospel Album category for Collide, and Integrity Gospel group Israel and New Breed was nominated in the Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album category for Live From Another Level.

Previously nominated artists who were nominated Wednesday include The Crabb Family for Driven (Daywind) in the Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album category, and INO Records' Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir received a nod for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album category for Live … This Is Your House.

A new category has been added to the GRAMMYs-Best Gospel Performance. Nominees are Shirley Caesar and Ann Nesby, The Stone (Music World Music/Columbia); Ray Charles and Gladys Knight, Heaven Help Us All (Concord Records); John and Mavis Staples, Lay My Burden Down (EMI/Blue Note); Fred Hammond, Celebrate (Verity/Zomba Label Group); and Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama, There Will Be A Light (Virgin).

For a complete list of nominees, visit www.grammy.com.

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