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
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.
Selena Quintanilla, Talking Heads to be honored at Grammys
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David Byrne and the Talking Heads will receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in January. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 22 (UPI) Late singer Selena Quintanilla and the Talking Heads will be honored at the 2021 Grammy Awards in January.
The Recording Academy announced its new Special Merit Awards honorees in a press release Tuesday.
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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.