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  RECORDING ACADEMY ®  TO HONOR MUSIC INDUSTRY ICONS WITH 2024 SPECIAL MERIT AWARDS DURING GRAMMY ®  WEEK THE RECORDING ACADEMY ® ’S SPECIAL MERIT AWARDS CEREMONY RETURNS TO THE WILSHIRE EBELL THEATRE ON SAT, FEB. 3 SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — The Recording Academy ® ’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony celebrating the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award, Technical GRAMMY ®  Award, and Best Song For Social Change Award recipients will return during GRAMMY ®  Week on Feb. 3, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.  Laurie Anderson, the Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer,  and  Tammy Wynette  are the 2024 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees;  Peter Asher, DJ Kool Herc  and  Joel Katz  are the Trustees Award recipients;  Tom Kobayashi  and  Tom Scott   are the Technical GRAMMY Award honorees; and  “Refugee,”  written by  K’naan, Steve McEwan , and  Gerald...

Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliott have joined forces as Executive producers for the ultimate movie collaboration about the top-selling  gospel girl group of all time -- The Clark Sisters,  The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel.  The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel  recounts the story of the musical discipline and strict upbringing their trailblazing mother, Mattie Moss Clark ( Aunjanue Ellis ) developed in them. Credited with being pioneers n contemporary gospel, the five Clark sisters ( Christina Bell  as “Twinkie,”  Kierra Sheard  as “Karen,”  Sheléa Frazier  as “Dorinda,”  Raven Goodwin  as “Denise,”  Angela Birchett  as “Jacky”) overcame humble beginnings in Detroit, enduring abuse, loss, rejection, betrayal, and sibling rivalries to achieve international fame as icons of the Gospel music industry. VIEW THE TRAILER The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel  will air ...