Nirvana, Ann & Nancy Wilson and others were honored at the Recording Academy Special Merit Awards.
Jim Stewart of Stax Records received a trustees award in part for Stax’s progressive stance for the time and place of having an interracial band, Booker T. & the MG’s.
Diana Ross, who was present when she received a solo lifetime achievement award from the Academy in 2012, wasn’t on hand to receive the trio’s honor, even though she is its only surviving member. Instead, the award was accepted by daughters of Mary Wilson, who died in 2021, and Florence Ballard, who died in 1976.
“I really don’t have many memories of my mom,” Chapman shared. “I was just three years old she passed. But she was very well loved all over the world.” He said that growing up in England, he knew he wanted to be a singer, singing snatches of Dionne Warwick’s “Walk on By” and The Supremes’ “Baby Love” before identifying other favorites – The Beatles, Jamaican dance hall and hip-hop.
McFerrin noted that his father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera of New York – so Bobby grew up listening, in his words, to Beethoven, Brahms and Basie.
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