An govt producer of this 12 months’s Grammy Awards ceremony apologized for the absence of some notable names within the occasion’s “In Memoriam” part however stated the selection of these to be talked about was not his.
In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, Ken Winston – who took on the position final 12 months – accepted that errors have been made, with late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison and Parliament-Funkadelic singer Calvin Simon among the many artists who weren’t talked about.
“Anyone who feels neglected or feels virtually snubbed by an in memoriam, I feel from the underside of our hearts, there can solely be apologies,” Winston stated. “We go into this present solely desirous to convey pleasure and like to individuals with music.”
He defined that the listing of names was given to him by the Recording Academy. Requested in regards to the absence of reference to the music followers who died finally 12 months’s Astroworld pageant crush, he responded: “I feel that’s a very honest level. I feel, you recognize, possibly we must always have completed one thing.”
However he went on to argue that the Grammy occasion remains to be evolving, with adjustments together with a brand new manufacturing firm working the ceremony and the set up of Harvey Mason Jr. as head of the Academy. “I’d meet artists on this journey over the past couple of years they usually’d be like, ‘Nicely, the Grammys have completed this and the Grammys have completed that and it’s time for it to alter,’” Winston stated. “And I’m like, ‘Yeah, yeah! That’s why I’m right here. That’s what we are able to do – be a part of the change relatively than simply being indignant about what’s gone earlier than.’”
