This year's class will be saluted at the Grammy Museum’s inaugural Grammy Hall of Fame Gala and concert on May 21 in L.A.
Mason has become a master at compartmentalizing, juggling his responsibilities as Recording Academy CEO with film and TV music projects.
The Recording Academy's vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion Ryan Butler breaks down the new initiative, and explains how it will directly impact representation in their voting body.
"Our voices and likenesses are... not mere digital kibble for a machine to duplicate without consent," Lainey Wilson told members of Congress
The program, which is in its third year, celebrates movers and shakers in the music industry, across the executive and producer categories.
Other 2024 Special Merit Award honorees include Laurie Anderson, The Clark Sisters, Tammy Wynette and Peter Asher.
The lawsuit says a staffer spent two years in the mid-1990s as "prey to a predator" that the Recording Academy "could have stopped.”
Since 2019, people of color have gone from comprising 24% of the Academy's total membership to 38%. Women now make up 30% of the total.
Capitol Music Group's Michelle Jubelirer will serve as keynote speaker at the Feb. 2, 2024 event.
"As an organization that promotes the unifying and healing power of music, we are shocked and heartbroken," the Recording Academy states.
