Selena Among 2021 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Honorees
2021 Special Merit Awards, awarding
Lifetime Achievement Awards to Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, and Talking Heads. The Recording Academy also named Ed Cherney, Benny Golson, and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds as Trustees Award honorees; and Daniel Weiss is the Technical Grammy Award recipient.
The honorees will be recognized on the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards on January 31, 2021 on CBS. Given the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, more details about the special award presentation event will be announced at a later date.
“As we welcome the new class of Special Merit Award honorees, it gives us a chance to reward and recognize the influence they’ve had in the music community regardless of genre,” said Harvey Mason jr., Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy. “As a music creator and music lover, I am grateful that we are able to look back at our
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, and Talking Heads to Be Honored With Recording Academy® Lifetime Achievement Award
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Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds To Be Honored With Trustees Award; Daniel Weiss To Receive Technical GRAMMY
® Award
SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Recording Academy
® has announced the honorees for its 2021 Special Merit Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, and Talking Heads. Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds are Trustees Award honorees; and
Daniel Weiss is the Technical GRAMMY
® Award recipient. The honorees will be recognized on the
Selena is being honored with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 Grammys
Harvey continued, “As a music creator and music lover, I am grateful that we are able to look back at our influences and see the impact that they have made on our community. In a year where music has helped keep us together, I look forward to honoring this iconic group of music creators.”
Selena’s album
Live won Best Mexican-American Album at the 36th annual Grammy Awards back in 1994. The
Como La Flor singer’s win marked the first time that a female Tejano artist won the category, according to The Recording Academy. In addition to Selena, who was killed in 1995, fellow Lifetime Achievement Award honorees