Wednesday's announcement that Tammy Hurt has been elected to succeed Harvey Mason Jr. as chair of the Recording Academy's board of trustees made history
After she follows Harvey Mason Jr. in the role, this marks the first time in academy history that back-to-back chairs have been people other than white men.
At each year's Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy distributes a program book to attendees. It's mostly devoted to nominees and special merit honorees, but it also includes a full page of head shots of past chairs of the academy’s board of trustees. The list goes all the way back to, who was acting national chairman from the academy’s founding in 1957 to 1961. The joke among Grammy insiders is that it’s a sea of white men until you get toThat isn’t quite true.
But things are changing in the Recording Academy, just as they are in America. The announcement on Wednesday that
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