Nirvana, Heart, the Supremes, and more were honored at the intimate Recording Academy's Special Merit Award ceremony ahead of the 2023 Grammys. Our recap from the event:
“In 1974, I found my calling which pulled me out of my college dorm room to capture this dream I had with my sister, since we were little kids,” she continued. “And the dream was to be the Beatles. Not to be married to them or the girlfriend of one of the Beatles—but toWhile her sister wasn’t in the theater that evening, Nancy made it a point to make her presence felt. “Thank you, Ann fucking Wilson. You know, what an honor to stand next to this powerhouse force of nature,” she smiled.
“We were two stubborn military brats, who could not have cared less about the gender politics at the time, and we still do not,” added Nancy. “Our style and Nirvana’s style were made to rage against the machine, and use our passion and our creativity as a powerful weapon against the status quo,” said Wilson, giving a shout out to their fellow Seattle comrades. “We followed our muse through the decades. We blazed a few trails and broke a few glass ceilings along the way for both men and women.
Pamela “Mama” Dawson, the Director of Choral Activities at DeSoto High School in Texas, was among the evening’s first recipients, and was honored with a Music Educator Award. In one of the most memorable speeches, Dawson, who has been the choir teacher at DeSoto since 2007, set the tone for the night, and spoke of the “gift of music.”
“As a music educator, it’s a blessing to not only love music, but to live it, to feel it, to instill it, and to share that changing power that life changing power with everyone who has an ear to hear and a heart to beat,” said Dawson. Dr. Andy Hildebrand, who created the Auto-Tune software program, was one of two Technical Grammy Award Honorees; the Audio Engineering Society was also recognized for their contribution to the recording industry. Hildebrand acknowledged the often controversial impact his software has had on music, quipping that he didn’t realize his technology “would corrupt music for the rest of my life,” while also optimistically mulling that it has forever changed the “economics of the studios.
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