.LilBaby4PF will receive the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at the 2022 Music In Action Awards Gala
, BMAC will honor Jon “Big Jon” Platt, chairman and CEO of Sony Music Publishing, with the Clarence Avant Trailblazer Award. Kevin Liles, CEO of 300 Entertainment, Amazon Music and The Recording Academy will each be honored with the BMAC Social Impact Award. Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, attorney and author Brittany K. Barnett, and Culture Creators’ Joi Brown will receive the BMAC Change Agent Award. Congresswoman Maxine Waters will receive the inaugural BMAC Icon Award.
, will do a special performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often dubbed the Black national anthem.“The BMAC Music In Action Awards are the only awards of its kind in the music industry,” Caron Veazey, Black Music Action Coalition co-founder and co-chair, said in a statement. “It is a feel-event where we come together not to celebrate our own individual accomplishments, but to celebrate what the honorees have given to, and done for, others.
The 2022 BMAC Music in Action Awards Gala will celebrate the organization’s accomplishments over the last year and highlight upcoming initiatives. BMAC has been instrumental in addressing systemic racism within the music business and advocating on behalf of Black artists, songwriters, producers, managers, agents, executives, lawyers and other industry professionals.
Veazey is on the BMAC board of directors, along with Willie “Prophet” Stiggers, Ashaunna Ayars, Naima Cochrane, Jamil Davis, Shawn Holiday, Damien Smith, and Courtney Stewart.For more information regarding the Black Music Action Coalition and the Music In Action Awards Gala, visit bmacoalition.org.
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