Certain musicians won't be celebrating music's biggest night. They plan to raise awareness by protesting on an issue very dear to them: to reinstate the 31 categories that were removed from the Grammy Awards.
The group of protesters mainly consist of Latin jazz performers and their supporters. Latin jazz musician, Ben Lapidus, has said: "The category eliminations came from left field. Grammy-winning Eddie Palmieri fought to have
Latin jazz. Now Latin jazz is gone." He and other artists believe the elimination of the category has harmed the genre.
In a restructuring process last year, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) cut down the Grammy categories from 109 to 78.
Sourced from: Billboard.biz
Text by: Priya Pitamber
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