Grammy Trustees Award
Awarded by The Recording Academy to "individuals who, during their careers in music, technology, and so on have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording".
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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording."
This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer and conductor.
1968: Prix Italia for the Dies Irae in memory of the victims of Auschwitz; Grammy Trustees Award for significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording;
Robert Moog
American engineering physicist and pioneer of electronic music.
Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970.
Herb Alpert
American trumpeter who led Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s.
Alpert and Moss received a Grammy Trustees Award in 1997, for their lifetime achievements in the recording industry as executives and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
W. C. Handy
American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues.
He received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1993.
John Hammond (record producer)
American record producer, civil rights activist, and music critic active from the 1930s to the early 1980s.
Hammond received a Grammy Trustees Award for being credited with co-producing a Bessie Smith reissue in 1971, and in 1986 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Sam Phillips
American record producer.
He received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1991.
Marian McPartland
English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer.
McPartland was awarded a Grammy in 2004, a Trustees' Lifetime Achievement Award, for her work as an educator, writer, and host of NPR Radio's long-running Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
Les Paul
American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
In 1983, Paul received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement.
Carole King
American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist.
Grammy Trustees Award