Jennifer Hudson is back to work. With the Grammys rapidly approaching, Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson has announced that she is ready to go back to work. The “Dreamgirls” star has been away from singing and acting as she mourns the murder of her mother, brother and nephew. The three family members were slain in October. Hudson is slated to perform at the 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year gala in Los Angeles on Feb. 6. The event is just two days before the Grammys and will be Hudson’s first public appearance since the tragedy. Hudson is competing for four awards, Best R&B Album. “It’s been a childhood dream of mine to release an album, so to receive four Grammy nominations is truly a blessing,” she said in a statement following the nominations.

Jennifer Hudson going back to work. Singer Jennifer Hudson is reportedly getting back to work, months after the tragedy of her relatives being killed in their South Chicago home. Hudson is set to begin filming a video next week for her single, “If This Isn’t Love,” according to her label, J Records. Hudson was due to film the clip in Los Angeles when her mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were discovered shot to death in their Chicago home on the city’s South Side on Oct. 24. The body of her nephew, 7-year-old Julian King, was found in a sport utility vehicle three days later. Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law, William Balfour, who is married to Hudson’s sister Julia, has been charged in the slayings. Prosecutors have said Balfour was upset Julia had been dating another man. Hudson has been in seclusion since the shootings.