Selena, Salt-N-Pepa & Talking Heads land Lifetime Achievement Grammys
Salt-N-Pepa and rockers
Special Merit Awards are hip-hop icons
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, opera singer
Marilyn Horne, and late jazz musician
Lionel Hampton.
Trustees Awards, with R&B legend
Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds, saxophonist
Benny Golson, and noted producer and engineer
Ed Cherney, who lost his battle with cancer last year (2019), due to be saluted for their “significant contributions… to the field of recording”, while engineer
Daniel Weiss has been recognized with the
Technical Grammy Award.
“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,”
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According to
Billboard, this is the second year in a row that a hip hop group has been selected to receive this award. In fact, this time around two groups are being honoured - Salt-N-Pepa and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five.
The first hip hop group to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award was Run DMC in 2016.
Selena, Salt-N-Pepa, Talking Heads Among Honorees for Lifetime Achievement Awards at 2021 Grammys
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The recipients for the upcoming Grammy Lifetime Achievement award have been officially announced by the Recording Academy, a month after the nominations were revealed. Dec 23, 2020
Also set to be feted with the Special Merit Awards are hip-hop icons
Grandmaster Flash &
Marilyn Horne, and late jazz musician
Lionel Hampton.
Recording Academy officials have additionally named the stars selected for the Trustees Awards, with R&B legend Kenny
Benny Golson, and noted producer and engineer
Ed Cherney, who lost his battle with cancer last year (19), due to be saluted for their significant contributions. to the field of recording while engineer
Selena Quintanilla, Talking Heads to be honored at Grammys
UPI News Service, 12/22/2020
Late singer Selena Quintanilla and the Talking Heads will be honored at the 2021 Grammy Awards in January.
ADVERTISEMENT The Recording Academy announced its new Special Merit Awards honorees in a press release Tuesday.
Quintanilla, who died at age 23 in March 1995, will receive a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award. The singer, known as the queen of Tejano music, previously won Best Mexican-American Album for Live at the 1994 Grammy Awards.
Talking Heads, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne and Salt-N-Pepa will also receive Lifetime Achievement Awards. Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and Kenny Babyface Edmonds will receive Trustee Awards, with Daniel Weiss to be honored with the Technical Grammy Award.