FILE – Grammy Awards are displayed at the Grammy Museum Experience at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. on Oct.
10, 2017. Image: AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File NEW YORK — For years, the Grammy Awards have been criticized over a lack of diversity — artists of color and women left out of top prizes; rap and contemporary R&B stars ignored — a reflection of the Recording Academy’s electorate. An evolving voting body, 66% of whom have joined in the last five years, is working to remedy that.
The 67th annual music awards is slated on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. At last year’s awards, women dominated the major categories; every televised competitive Grammy went to at least one woman. It stems from a commitment the Recording Academy made five years ago: In 2019, the Academy announced it would add 2,500 women to its voting body by 2025.
Under the Grammys’ new membership model, the Recording Academy has surpassed that figure ahead of the deadline: More than 3,000 female voting members have been added, it announced Thursday. Taylor Swift accepts the Album Of The Year award for “Midnights” during the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
Image: John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy/AFP “It’s definitely something that we’re all very proud of,” Harvey Mason Jr., academy president and CEO, told The Associated Press . “It tells me that we were severely underrepresented in that area.
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