He won a Grammy Award

An interesting fact about Barack Obama is that he received a Grammy Award. Obama's name has been associated with two Grammy Awards. Dreams from My Father, his speech album, won him his first Grammy in 2006. His lecture album The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream received the second award in 2008. His concession speech following the New Hampshire primary was turned into the "Yes We Can" music video, which earned Daytime Emmy Awards and had ten million views on YouTube in its first month. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, two other former presidents nominated for the same honor, were defeated by him.

Obama was voted Person of the Year by Time magazine in both December 2008 and 2012. His unprecedented campaign and victory in 2008 earned him prizes for what Time called "a steady march of seemingly inconceivable triumphs." At Westminster Hall in London on May 25, 2011, Obama made history by becoming the first American president to address both chambers of the British Parliament. Only five heads of state have received the invitation since the start of the 20th century: Charles de Gaulle in 1960, Nelson Mandela in 1996, Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, and Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.