As a part of its long-term effort to update and diversify its membership, the Recording Academy — residence of the Grammy Awards — has prolonged membership invites to greater than 3,900 established music professionals spanning numerous backgrounds, genres and disciplines.
In keeping with the announcement, the 2024 class of invitees is 45% girls, 57% individuals of colour and 47% below the age of 40. With this yr’s new member invitees, the Recording Academy is on monitor to attain its aim of including 2,500 girls voting members by 2025 this yr — one yr forward of schedule.
Invites have to be formally accepted by July 31 for recipients to turn out to be Recording Academy members and take part within the Online Entry Process (OEP) for the upcoming Grammy Awards. Via OEP, members can submit recordings, music movies and different eligible content material for Grammy Award consideration. People invited as Voting Members who settle for their invites are eligible to vote for the Grammy Awards, with the primary voting poll opening on Oct. 4 and shutting on Oct. 15.
“There’s no higher strategy to kick off Grammy season than by inviting hundreds of numerous and proficient music creators and professionals to hitch our Recording Academy household,” mentioned Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “Our members are the guts of the Academy, driving our mission to make lasting, optimistic impacts on the music neighborhood and form music historical past. We’re hopeful that every one 3,900+ invitees be a part of us in serving, celebrating and championing the voices of music creators year-round.”
Among the many invitees celebrating this profession milestone immediately are Tanner Adell, Ashnikko, Grupo Frontera, and Teddy Swims, who expressed their pleasure:
- Tanner Adell: “So excited to say I’m within the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2024 New Member Class. This yr has been filled with checking issues off my bucket listing, and that is undoubtedly one in every of them! Couldn’t be extra honored to hitch this unimaginable roster and advocate for music and my fellow creators.”
- Ashnikko: “It’s an honor to turn out to be a member of the Recording Academy. I’m so grateful to be a musician in such an thrilling period of music. It’s an extremely inspiring time. To have the ability to have a hand in nominating a few of my favourite artists which are shaping tradition proper now feels very particular.”
- Grupo Frontera: “We’re excited to hitch the Recording Academy as new members this yr. We’ve been so blessed to be accepted into the music business with open arms within the quick time that now we have had and becoming a member of this neighborhood full of the most effective of the most effective music has to supply is an honor.”
- Teddy Swims: “I’m really humbled to be invited into the Recording Academy. It’s an honor to be part of one thing that so lots of my heroes have belonged to.”
The Recording Academy’s membership invitation course of is community-driven and peer-reviewed yearly, specializing in two kinds of membership: Voting Membership for music creators and Skilled Membership for music enterprise professionals (Grammy U is the third sort of membership and follows a separate utility course of). Annually, musicians and professionals should apply for membership by March 1. Their submissions are reviewed within the spring by a peer evaluate panel composed of present Recording Academy members lively within the music business. If permitted, candidates are invited to hitch the Recording Academy. For extra info on the Academy’s membership necessities, go to here.
A complete report on the Academy’s 2024 New Member Class, together with an in depth breakdown of the general membership demographics and crafts, will likely be launched later this yr following the deadline for 2024 invitees to hitch the Academy. To see the 2023 New Member Class and general membership replace, go to here.
