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KEN EHRLICH, PHILIP GLASS AND FRANK WALKER TO BE HONORED WITH TRUSTEES AWARD; GEORGE AUGSPURGER TO RECEIVE TECHNICAL GRAMMY ®  AWARD SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- On DEC. 19, 2019 t he Recording Academy ®  is announced its 2020 Special Merit Awards recipients. The Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are  Chicago ,  Roberta Flack ,  Isaac Hayes ,  Iggy Pop ,  John Prine ,  Public Enemy  and  Sister Rosetta Tharpe .  Ken Ehrlich ,  Philip Glass  and  Frank Walker  are Trustees Award honorees; and  George Augspurger  is the Technical GRAMMY ®  Award recipient. A special award presentation ceremony and concert celebrating the honorees will be held on April 18, 2020, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Additional details regarding the ceremony will be announced shortly. "Our industry is one that prides itself on influence and paying it forward, and each year the Recording Academy has the privilege of ...

New York – January 12, 2019 – Musical titans Dallas Austin, Missy Elliott, Tom T. Hall, John Prine, Jack Tempchin & Yusuf / Cat Stevens will become the latest inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the organization’s 50th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner. These legendary songwriters wrote mega-hits such as, "The Boy Is Mine,” “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” “Angel From Montgomery,” “Ballad of Forty Dollars,” “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and “Moonshadow.” The star-studded induction event is slated for Thursday, June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Additional special award honorees will be announced soon.  SHOF Chairman Nile Rodgers said, “The first thing you need to know is it’s about the song, the second thing you need to know is it’s about the song, the third thing you need to know is it’s about the song. That’s true now more than ever but it has always been about the song so I’m very proud that in my first year as Chairman of the Songwriter’s Ha...