{"id":259627,"date":"2025-11-03T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259627\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:27:08","slug":"recording-academy-welcomes-members-including-latin-academy-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259627\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Academy Welcomes Members, Including Latin Academy Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Recording Academy<\/a> has invited more than 3,800 members who are actively working in the music industry to join the Academy as part of its 2025 New Member Class, expanding the pool of qualified voters ahead of the 2026 Grammy Awards on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, invitations were also extended to all Latin Recording Academy Voting Members for the first time in history. With the aim of building a more globally representative voting body, Monday\u2019s announcement revealed the accepted class is comprised of 50% of people 39 and under, 58% of people of color and 35% women. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cToday marks the beginning of an exciting week \u2014 not only are we welcoming this year\u2019s incredible new class of Academy members, but we\u2019re just days away from unveiling the 2026 Grammy Awards nominees,\u201d said Harvey Mason jr<\/a>., CEO of the Recording Academy. Nominations will be announced Nov. 7. at 11 a.m. ET during a livestream event on live.GRAMMY.com and YouTube. <\/p>\n

\n\tMason continued, \u201cThis year\u2019s class reflects the vibrancy of today\u2019s diverse music landscape. The addition of many Latin Recording Academy voting members underscores that music has no borders and that our mission to serve music people, regardless of where they are from, is stronger than ever. I can\u2019t wait for our members\u2019 passion and hard work to shine through in this year\u2019s nominations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRecording Academy membership consists of voting membership for recording creators and professional membership for music business professionals. All members have the opportunity to participate in the organization\u2019s year-round initiatives, driving meaningful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion progress through the DREAM Initiative, advocating for creators at the federal and state levels, engaging in programming with the producers and engineers wing and songwriters and composers wing, mentoring the next generation of music industry talent through Grammy U, supporting peers across the Academy\u2019s 12 Chapter cities and more. <\/p>\n

\n\tVoting Members \u2014 made up of artists, songwriters, producers, and engineers active in the music industry \u2014 are eligible to vote, ultimately determining the Grammy nominees and winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Recording Academy has invited more than 3,800 members who are actively working in the music industry to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,120474,120475,341,50707],"class_list":{"0":"post-259627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harvey-mason-jr","12":"tag-manuel-abud","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-recording-academy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}