While acknowledging that the nomination is a major distinction, the 28-year-old singer admitted that it saddens him that he cannot share the joy with the band’s legendary frontman, Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away in July at the age of 76.

Speaking on the Q podcast, Yungblud shared his mixed emotions:
“I don’t know how to feel about it. As a singer, being nominated for a Grammy for a live performance—where you can’t go into a studio and add layers or make it perfect—is a moment that’s gone, and you can’t share it with the person you were singing to. It’s an honor, but it’s also tragic.”

Yungblud is preparing to embark on a major tour in the coming months, but he admits he needs some time and space to process both Ozzy’s death and his own rapid rise to fame. Elaborating, he said:
“I really need to make sense of what’s happened. On January 1st we’re heading to Australia and the world tour continues—we’re now booking dates through 2028, and I also have to make another album in the middle of all this.”

Honoring Ozzy Osbourne’s legacy in the right way remains deeply important to him.
“I want to honor him properly, and I really want to take the time to feel it and see it clearly, because if you don’t process things, you don’t feel anything—you go numb,” he added. “I truly want to be present and grateful to the universe and to my idols, and above all to the community that stood by me—to look them in the eye and be there for the next 20 years.”

Yungblud remains profoundly affected by Ozzy’s death, given the pivotal role the rock legend played in bringing him into the spotlight. “You’re given a chance by your hero to show the world what you can do, you get to know them on a human level, and then they die. Honestly, it moves me as I try to process this journey I’ve been on, having loved this idol my whole life,” he confessed.

“It’s probably the biggest moment of my career—the one that may have, for the first time, made the world pay attention to me. I get to know him and try to show him how grateful I am, not just for my life and who I am, but for the opportunity he gave me—and then he dies,” he concluded.