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By Shelby Stewart ·Updated January 5, 2024
Today, the Recording Academy announced its recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Special Merit Awards ceremony this year.
In this year’s cohort, the Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer, are the 2024 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees; hip-hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc is a Trustees Award recipient; and “Refugee,”written by K’naan, Steve McEwan, and Gerald Eaton (a.k.a. Jarvis Church), is being honored with the Best Song For Social Change Award.
“The Academy is honored to pay tribute to this
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