Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. despatched a letter Friday urging the group’s 12,000 voting members to solid their ballots with “intention and integrity.”
The eligibility interval for the Feb. 2, 2025 Grammys has a month to go. The primary-round voting for the 67th annual Grammy Awards run from Oct. 4 to Oct. 15 and closing voting will run from Dec. 12 via Jan. 3, 2025.
“The trajectory of individuals’s careers and lives are altered by your selections,” Mason wrote within the letter, revealed by Billboard. “In case you are taking into consideration an artist’s older work, or their fame, or race, or gender, what label they’re on, who their supervisor is, what number of associates participated within the undertaking, or anything like that, you’re not doing all your job.”
Mason began his letter by noting that “this yr is completely different.”
“Final Grammy season, I heard a Grammy voter say they hadn’t taken a particular artist significantly since a efficiency they noticed greater than ten years in the past. I used to be shocked and disturbed by that. There isn’t a place in our group for such bias, grudge-holding, or careless voting. It’s in regards to the present yr and the standard of the work, interval!,” Mason stated.
“I hope that you simply start prioritizing your accountability now, and never wait till Grammy season is right here,” Mason stated. “I hope that you simply consider the music fastidiously, and put together your self to vote with care and goal, and that you simply encourage your fellow voting members to do the identical. Your friends in music are relying on you.”
