Recording Academy boots Grammy voters. CEO says awards should be decided by ‘relevant music people’
LA TimesTwo-thirds of the professional musicians who will decide the results of next year’s Grammy Awards weren’t members of the Recording Academy as recently as 2018. “What we’re doing is we’re looking at the membership that we have, and we’re comparing that to what’s going on in our music community — who’s making the music, what’s their gender, what’s their age, what’s their ethnicity,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in an interview. In addition to enlisting new members, the academy has shed Grammy voters that no longer meet the organization’s qualifications for membership — “voters that maybe had a hit record or a song published in the ’70s or ’80s and just kept voting,” as Mason put it. The group’s goal, he said, is an electorate composed of “relevant music people.” Asked whether some of those deemed irrelevant protested their expulsion, Mason laughed. But my hope is we can celebrate the results — better nominations, better wins, more reflective of what’s happening in music.” To that end, Mason sent a letter to voters in July imploring them to put in the work of listening to eligible recordings and judging them “with pride and with purpose.” Many younger members have complained about the academy’s cumbersome voting process, which Mason said the group has tried to improve with an app it soft-launched last year and is more heavily promoting this time around.
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