The Recording Academy has announced the winners of this year's Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards. N.W.A., Laurie Anderson, Gladys Knight, Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette, and the Clark Sisters will be honored at this year's special Merit Awards ceremony, which will be held on Saturday, February 3, the day before the Grammy Awards, at the Wilshire Ibell Theater in Los Angeles.
At the same ceremony, the Trustees Award will be presented to producer and manager Peter Asher, hip-hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc, and attorney Joel Katz, while Tom Kobayashi and Tom Scott will receive Artistic Grammy Awards. The award for Best Social Change Song will go to “Refugee,” written by Kenan, Steve McEwan and Gerald Eaton (aka Jarvis Church).
Last year, Lifetime Achievement Award winners were Nirvana, The Supremes, Nile Rodgers, Slick Rick, Ma Rainey, Bobby McFerrin, Hart Ann and Nancy Wilson.
