Grammy Best African Music Performance Award
Grammy organizers add Best African Music Performance and two others ahead of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.
Ahead of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy has created a new music category for African music: Best African Music Performance.
It also added two new categories: Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording.
Additionally, the previous categories of non-classical producer of the year and non-classical composer of the year will be relocated to the general field.
The Recording Academy's most recent semiannual Board of Trustees meeting, held last month, decided on and approved the category additions and revisions.
The Recording Academy's Chief Executive Officer, Harvey Mason Jr., stated in a statement on Tuesday that the news categories reflect a wide range of relevant musical genres.
“The Recording Academy is proud to announce these latest category changes to our award process. These changes reflect our commitment to actively listen and respond to the feedback from our music community, accurately represent a diverse range of relevant musical genres, and stay aligned with the ever-evolving musical landscape,” Mason said
The addition of an award category for Africa is a recognition of recordings that utilise unique local expressions from across the African continent.
The category includes, Afro-fusion, Afro Pop, Afrobeats, Alte, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, Genge, Kizomba, Chimurenga, High Life, Fuji, Kwassa, Ndombolo, Mapouka, Ghanaian Drill, Afro-House, South African Hip-Hop, and Ethio Jazz genres.
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