Recording Academy chairman and president Neil Portnow tells Rolling Stone that the Grammys were still discussing whether to include rapper XXXTentacion, who was killed this June, in the show’s annual In Memoriam tribute.
“It’s always a daunting task to consider the talented young artists who died this year,” Portnow says. “We design the show after knowing the nominations, and that was today, so we will be deciding on the programming of that now. We don’t have pre-obits prepared like in journalism but we do leave time every...
“It’s always a daunting task to consider the talented young artists who died this year,” Portnow says. “We design the show after knowing the nominations, and that was today, so we will be deciding on the programming of that now. We don’t have pre-obits prepared like in journalism but we do leave time every...
- 12/7/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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