HBCUs received their flowers at the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards and one made history as the first collegiate marching band to ever be nominated and win.

The Tennessee State University marching band, better known as the Aristocrat of Bands whose home is an HBCU in Nashville, won the “Best Roots Gospel Album” category for The Urban Hymnal, a gospel album with modern influences and authentic marching band sounds.

The Urban Hymnal featured hit gospel artists like Donald Lawrence, Kierra Sheard and Fred Hammond, bringing gospel favorites like Goin’ up Yonder and Jesus Loves Me to the sound and culture of the Aristocrat of Bands.

Because all of the students in the Aristocrat of Bands couldn’t accept the award in person, the songwriters and producers Dallas Austin, Sir the Baptist and TSU professor Larry Jenkins accepted the GRAMMY while the university held a Grammy watch party with students gathered in support.

During professor Jenkins’ speech, he thanked his students, telling the new winners, “Your hard work and dedication created the pen that allowed you to write your own page in the history books. We all know we made history, but this is also February. We also made Black history.”

At the 54th annual NAACP Image Awards set to air on Feb. 25, TSU Aristocrat of Bands has also been nominated for “Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song” and “Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album” for The Urban Hymnal.

Follow the TSU Aristocrat of Bands at the NAACP Image Awards.