On Sunday night the eyes of the music world will be focused on the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, but there's plenty of Grammy-worthy talent right here in Georgia. Here are your favorite genres and the nominated or award-winning artists who may be your neighbors:

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Brian Littrell: Backstreet Boy lives in Alpharetta with his wife and young son.
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Elton John: An album called 'Peachtree Road,' a part-time residence in Buckhead.
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Ann Nesby: Fayetteville resident has earned another Grammy nomination.
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Candi Staton: Whether she's gospel or secular, her home is in Stone Mountain.
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R&B

Akon: Sure Billboard magazine named him last year's top pop artist, but the Dacula resident's distinctive bleet has soul.

Usher: He and new wife and child are selling his Alpharetta bachelor digs and making a new home in Roswell, according to recent reports.

Ne-Yo: After filming "Stomp the Yard" in the metro area, this Arkansas native decided to make Mableton home.

India Arie: Audiences first started taking notice of her in what is now known as downtown's Apache Café, but when she packs up her acoustic guitar these days, she takes it home to Stone Mountain.

Ciara: Riverdale High's former cheerleader now practices her moves in the mirror at her Buckhead home.

Keyshia Cole: That house you may have seen on her BET reality show, "The Way It Is," is in Alpharetta.

T-Pain: College Park is where this prolific singer, rapper and producer lays his dreads.

TLC: Once members of the biggest-selling female group of all time, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas now are raising children in their big homes in the gated Sugarloaf community, and Stone Mountain.

Monica: This Grammy-winning native's College Park home is a-whirl with two little boys.

The Dream: The address of this hitmaking singer-songwriter behind Rihanna's "Umbrella" and his recording artist wife Nivea is Dunwoody.

Ron DeVoe of New Edition: If this burgeoning real estate mogul can show you around any part of town, surely it's his own Marietta.

Angie Stone: Ellenwood recently captured the heart of this soul power.

Keith Sweat: Still spending the money he earned in the late '80s as a multimillion-selling begger, this syndicated radio personality and onetime broker on Wall Street balances his checkbook in Alpharetta.

Peabo Bryson: Back on the scene after eight years between new recordings, this two-time Grammy winner is a longtime Buckhead resident.

Millie Jackson: Now that she's unleashed daughter Keisha on the world: singing background for OutKast and Erykah Badu, as well as up front: this one-time blast of X-rated fire cools her heels in Lithonia.

Candi Staton: Her young heart ran free, but now she relaxes and decides whether she wants to do secular music or gospel in the comfort of her Stone Mountain living room.

Morris Day: Atlantaaaaa Toyotaaaaa's pitchman is keeping Time in Alpharettaaaaa.

Frankie Beverly: Quietly, this appreciator of "Southern Girls" gets an eyeful from his Centennial Park condo he lives in part-time.

HIP-HOP

OutKast: Stone Mountain's Andre "Dre" Benjamin and south Fulton's Antwan "Big Boi" Patton are, together, one of hip-hop's best-selling groups.

Ludacris: On his 22 acres in College Park, this Grammy-winning rapper, actor and soon-to-be restaurateur can catch bream, bass and catfish in his lake.

Lil Jon: Whaaat?! You didn't know Atlanta's self-appointed King of Crunk lived in Alpharetta? Yeeeahhhh!!!

T.I.:Now that he's on house arrest for allegedly purchasing machine guns, this Atlanta native is getting to know his lakefront home in Henry County really well.

Young Jeezy: He has a clothing store on downtown Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, but he hangs his personal men's line up in Buckhead.

Bow Wow:This rapper-actor dropped the "Lil" in front of his name a while ago; probably, in part, because Gwinnett County's star of "Roll Bounce" and "Like Mike" is making big money in music and movies.

Soulja Boy: Thanks to this Atlanta teen, "Crank That" is a dance, a Grammy-nominated single, a phenomenon.

Yung Joc: "It's Goin' Down" in College Park, where this Grammy nominee and Atlanta native lives.

Goodie Mob: Cee-Lo (also of Gnarls Barkley), Gipp, T-Mo and Khujo span the city from Stockbridge to Fayetteville, but they can all be found on one classic album: "Soul Food."

Arrested Development: "Tennessee" helped make the Milwaukee native famous, but it's in Fayette County that this group's leader, Speech, makes music.

Jermaine Dupri: Not only is Atlanta the home of So So Def — as his billboard announces on 85-N — but this record producer, executive and recording artist makes his home there, too, in north Fulton (along with girlfriend Janet Jackson).

Polow Da Don: Zone 4 is the imprint he uses to put out Rich Boy and Keri Hilson, but he parks his Jaguar in Midtown.

CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL

Third Day: This oft-awarded contemporary Christian rock quintet — with three Grammys — still calls the metro area home. Mac Powell, Mark Lee and Brad Avery all live in Cobb County (Powder Springs, Kennesaw and Acworth, respectively); Tai Anderson and David Carr are Roswell residents.

Dottie Peoples: The Grammy-nominated gospel star calls Riverdale in Clayton County home.

Casting Crowns: Most of this hugely successful contemporary Christian rock band is based at Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough. Mark Hall, Juan and Melodee DeVevo, Andy Williams and Megan Garrett all make their home in the McDonough area. Chris Huffman lives in nearby Stockbridge and Hector Cervantes lives in Rome.

Ann Nesby: The former Sounds of Blackness vocal powerhouse is again among the Grammy nominees, this year for traditional R&B vocal performance. The younger set might be more familiar with this Fayetteville resident's granddaughter, Paris Bennett, fifth-place finisher on "American Idol" in 2006.

COUNTRY

Sugarland: Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles toiled for years on Atlanta's local music scene before hitting it big in Nashville. Bush still has a residence in Avondale Estates, but South Georgia native Nettles has made a move north of the metro area, with a home near Dahlonega.

Travis Tritt: He's one of the most successful country artists the metro area has ever produced, and though he grew up in Marietta, Tritt now makes his home in Paulding County.

Kenny Rogers: The country music legend is now a co-owner of Kenji Design Studios, an Atlanta interior design consulting firm whose client list includes Midtown's soon-to-rise Trump Towers. Rogers and his family live in Buckhead.

Patty Loveless: Loveless had a string of Top 10 country hits from 1988 until 1996, and though she hasn't reached those heights with more recent work, her three latest albums are among the best of her career. Loveless and producer-musician husband Emory Gordy Jr., an Atlanta native, call Paulding County home.

JAZZ

Russell Gunn: Two-time Grammy nominee and trumpeter is a frequent performer at Midtown's Churchill Grounds, but his home is in Southwest Atlanta.

Freddy Cole: The brother of Nat King Cole and uncle of Natalie is up for jazz vocal album trophy at today's Grammy ceremony. The recent Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee lives in Southwest Atlanta's Cascade Heights.

POP/ROCK

Indigo Girls: Emily Saliers still resides in Decatur, where the Indigo Girls first met as elementary school students. Amy Ray prefers the rural anonymity of the North Georgia mountains.

Elton John: Atlanta's favorite knight, who titled his 2004 album "Peachtree Road," still keeps a part-time residence in Buckhead.

Brian Littrell: The Backstreet Boy's wife, Leighanne, is a Marietta native, and they now live in Alpharetta with their young son.

Shawn Mullins: The Atlanta-born singer-songwriter scored a worldwide hit in 1998 with "Lullaby," and he still makes his home in the Lake Claire neighborhood, just west of Decatur.

Brendan O'Brien: This Buckhead resident shuns the spotlight and rarely grants interviews, but he's been a top producer since the '90s, helming albums by the Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam and every Bruce Springsteen album released in this decade.

R.E.M.: Let's play word association. If we say Athens and music, R.E.M. is probably your next thought. Two of the band's three members: Michael Stipe and Mike Mills: are still Athens residents, but guitarist Peter Buck now calls Seattle home.

Ed Roland: One of Atlanta's hottest acts of the '90s, Collective Soul scored three Top 20 hits in the middle of that decade: and many more and for much longer on the modern and mainstream rock charts. Frontman Roland grew up in Stockbridge, but his address is now in Buckhead.

Widespread Panic: This Athens jam band has a large and very loyal fanbase and plays sold out shows around the U.S. The band's members live, well, all over the area. John Bell lives in Dahlonega, while Dave Schools and Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz call Athens home. Meanwhile, Todd Nance is in Stone Mountain and Jimmy Herring in Carrollton. John Herman, however, lives in Tennessee.

Cindy Wilson: Party rockers extraordinaire the B-52's may have been launched from Athens, but none of them lives there these days. Wilson is the only member who still lives in the area, and she's in Dunwoody.