Artists were reticent to address the Deborah Dugan scandal at the GRAMMYs. Eve_Barlow reports
On Sunday night, the ousted Academy president was nowhere to be seen nor mentioned explicitly. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy When Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan was placed on leave ten days prior to the 2020 Grammys, many wondered if the awards would serve as a space for artists to be vocal about inequities within the industry.
L.A. hip-hop maestro Georgia Anne Muldrow was the most outspoken on the allegations of discrimination. “In my life it’s normal, but it shouldn’t be normal,” she said, referring to the Academy’s historically poor record of fair gender and race representation. “There’s things that have to change culturally, and it’s gonna express itself in an Academy, especially in the elite society.” Muldrow said she was asked to sit on the original Task Force spearheaded by Tina Tchen of Time’s Up.
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