Fort Worth Musician Abraham Alexander Is Nominated For an OSCAR!

The singer-songwriter is up for the gold for his song "Like a Bird" from Sing Sing.

January 23, 2025

Abraham Alexander has been nominated for an Oscar for his contribution to the Sing Sing soundtrack. Rachel Parker

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North Texas has its fair share of Grammy Award winners (and certainly of Dallas Observer Music Awards winners), but not every day does one of our own get a chance at going for the gold.

Boy, do we love to be right: In 2023, we named Fort Worth-via-Greece musician Abraham Alexander the "best soon-to-be legend." Now the singer-songwriter is up for one of the film industry’s highest honors.

On Thursday morning, the nominations were announced for the 97th Academy Awards. It’s a big day for veterans-yet-first-time nominees, including a Best Actress nom for The Substance's Demi Moore and Best Supporting Actress contender Isabella Rosellini (Conclave).

The batshit musical Emilia Pérez may still be dividing critics (though we can all unite in being baffled at Selena Gomez's "Mi gente Latino" Spanish), but it earned the first Oscar nomination for an openly transgender person for star Karla Sofía Gascón.

Succession's daddy-issues-riddled Roy brothers, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong, are both up for a Best Supporting Actor award.

The Oscars will air on March 2. Alexander is nominated along with Texan musician/producer Adrian Quesada for Best Song with “Like a Bird” from the soundtrack to Sing Sing. The A24 film prison drama stars Euphoria’s Coleman Domingo (who’s up for Best Actor) and centers on a theater group created by inmates at the infamous New York State correctional facility.

The film is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

“It’s such an incredible honor to be nominated for Best Original Song, and I’m so grateful I get to represent Fort Worth in this way,” says Abraham via text. “Sing Sing is an amazing film and to have had the opportunity to be a part of it feels so special. It still doesn’t feel real to me.”

Eva Raggio is the former music and culture editor of the Dallas Observer. She began freelancing for the Observer in 2013 and joined the staff full-time in April 2019. Prior to that, she wrote for publications such as Nylon, Playboy and D Magazine.

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