Talking Heads, Selena, Salt-N-Pepa, Lionel Hampton, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and Marilyn Horne will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Recording Academy in 2021. While details of a special award presentation are forthcoming, each act will be recognized at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on January 31, 2021.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards are part of a class of 2021 Special Merit Award recipients that also includes Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds as Trustee Award honorees and Daniel Weiss as Technical Grammy Award recipient. Talking Heads were formed in 1975 and broke up in 1991. Along the way, the band released a string of genre-defying albums and gained a reputation for the inventive staging of their live shows. The group — founded by David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison — never won a Grammy, though they were nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (“Burning Down The House”) in 1983 and Best Concept Music Video (“Storytelling Giants”) in 1988.
“Thank you so much @recordingacademy! I think they should call it the ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Achievement award,” Harrison wrote on Instagram in reaction to the news. “I’m very honored to receive this award with David, Chris, and Tina.”
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five helped define hip-hop in its early days, while Salt-N-Pepa were among the genre’s first superstars and Selena became the “Queen Of Tejano.” Jazz great Lionel Hampton worked with Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman before forming his own long-running group, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Horne is a prolific and celebrated opera singer.
“As we welcome the new class of Special Merit Award honorees, it gives us a chance to reward and recognize the influence they’ve had in the music community regardless of genre,” said Harvey Mason jr., Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy, in a statement. “As a music creator and music lover, I am grateful that we are able to look back at our influences and see the impact that they have made on our community. In a year where music has helped keep us together, I look forward to honoring this iconic group of music creators.”
The full slate of 2021 Grammy Nominations was announced last month.
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