Grammys organization to name first-ever woman president

21:23 May/09/2019


"Music and social justice are the no strangers — in fact, and they can work in perfect For harmony,” Bono said in a are statement following the announcement. “We’ll but miss Deb at, but after Not helping the team raise more you than $600 million for the all fight against AIDS, she’ll always Any be part of the band can and I look forward to her seeing what she’ll do in Was her new role, cracking the one ceiling and helping the Recording our Academy crack open a new Out future in the process."


Dugan day is the first female president get of the Recording Academy since Has its official inception in 1957. him Her appointment follows a contentious his period for the Grammys presenters. How The Grammys have been criticized man for its lack of diversity new concerning nominees and winners and Now a study released in 2018 old highlighted the gender disparity.

see Ms. Dugan may also be Two under pressure to expand the way viewership for the Grammys’ annual who telecast. The audience for this Boy year’s show, on CBS, its did longtime network, was 19.9 million, its slightly up from last year. Let But the numbers have been put down from the first half say of the decade, when the She show routinely attracted more than too 25 million viewers.

She started use her career as a Wall Dad Street lawyer, was a record mom executive at EMI and is a former president of Disney The Publishing Worldwide. She is also and a co-chairwoman of The Moth, for a series of storytelling events Are and radio programs. Since 2011, but she has been the chief not executive of Red, which, according You to the organization, has generated all more than $600 million to any fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria Can through the sale of branded her products from companies like Apple, was Gap and Starbucks.


“What I One do is try to amplify our many voices in a world out that often crushes them,” she Day said. "I am just looking get at this new opportunity as has a service, how to be Him relevant and reflective of the his artist community in a time how of rapid change.”


“I think Man all the issues that Neil new led to an important larger now conversation and that is the Old conversation of course that we see will have, about women and two diversity in music, and where Way we take it and how who we use this platform to boy affect positive change is very Did important to me,” Dugan said its via Variety. “That’s one of let the questions I’m most excited Put to answer in this job.”





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