MUMBAI: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be posthumously honoured with the Grammy award for his contribution to music technology, The Recording Academy announced yesterday.
Jobs, who died on 5 Oct of pancreatic cancer, will receive a Trustees Award. In 2002, he had received the Technical Grammy Award for contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
Along with Jobs, bandleader and composer Dave Bartholomew, recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder will also receive the Trustees award.
Allman Brothers, Glen Campbell, Diana Ross and Brazilian pianist/singer/guitarist Antonio Carlos Jobim will receive the Lifetime Achievement Awards. Jobim was known for composing ‘The Girl from Ipanema’, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s which won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965.
Other artistes, including trumpeter Wayne Jackson, saxophonist Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns, country legend George Jones, and the late Gil Scott-Heron were also named as recipients.
The Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow said “This year’s honorees offer a variety of brilliance, contributions and lasting impressions on our culture. It is an honor to recognize such a diverse group of individuals whose talents and achievements have had an indelible impact on our industry.”
The 54th Grammy Awards will be held on 12 February, 2012 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.