Taking over for longtime Chief Executive Neil Portnow, all eyes are on new Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan as she approaches her first Grammy Awards.
on Aug. 1, is a time-consuming one, with concerts at night after days spent meeting with the music-industry bigwigs who will convene Jan. 26 at Staples Center when the academy presents the 62nd Grammy Awards.
that female artists should “step up” if they wanted to be recognized at the Grammys — as though their being sidelined was the result of a lack of effort rather than the organization’s institutional bias. . Yet some have worried that a CBS telecast filled with newcomers could have trouble engaging that network’s older audience.
For now, as Dugan learns the academy’s ropes, “I’m trying to ask the right questions,” she said over coffee at a dining table piled with her 17-year-old daughter’s ACT-prep guides. “Everything’s being examined. What are our values in 2020? Are we doing the best we can in music education?” She recalled a recent staff meeting in which an intern pointed out that the organization isn’t especially funny on social media.
Many in the industry had expected the board to select a woman for the job, though some were surprised by the choice of a relative outsider. Yet Jay Landers, a veteran A&R exec who worked with Dugan at both EMI and Disney, said her close relationships outside music — with tech companies like Apple, for instance — only bolster her “fresh perspective.”
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