Neil Portnow News

The GRAMMY Foundation®is currently accepting applications for its 2012 GRAMMY Camp®, GRAMMY Camp® - Jazz Session, (formerly GRAMMY®Jazz Ensembles ) and GRAMMY Signature Schools programs for high school students and high school music programs.

MusiCares announced today that Tori Amos, Colbie Caillat, the Eli Young Band, Melanie Fiona, Demi Lovato, Owl City, Parachute, Jenni Rivera, Paulina Rubio, Patrick Stump, and Sugarland are the latest group of artists to join the innovative 'Be A Part Of The Heart' fundraising campaign, which invites the public to come together to create an online mosaic comprised of photo tiles.

The GRAMMY Foundation®is currently accepting applications for its 2012 GRAMMY Camp®, GRAMMY Camp® - Jazz Session, (formerly GRAMMY®Jazz Ensembles ) and GRAMMY Signature Schools programs for high school students and high school music programs.

The GRAMMY Foundation® and MusiCares Foundation® - the affiliated charities of The Recording Academy® - announced that their respective Boards have elected new Officers and Directors.Scott Pascucci has been elected to serve as the Chair of MusiCares, with Jon Platt, president of North America creative for EMI Music Publishing, elected as Vice Chair, and Gary Veloric elected asSecretary/Treasurer.

The Recording Academy Statement on Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith- GRAMMY Award winner Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith was a great, versatile Chicago bluesman who had a dynamic career as a vocalist, harmonica player and drummer.

Paul McCartney, legendary singer/songwriter and 14-time GRAMMY winner (as well as Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Award recipient), will be honored as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year at its 22nd annual benefit gala, it was announced today by Neil Portnow, President/CEO of the MusiCares Foundation and The Recording Academy , and Scott Pascucci, Chair of the MusiCares Foundation Board.

Five-time GRAMMY® winner Amy Winehouse was a dynamic performer and musician who seamlessly blended rock, jazz, pop, and soul and created a sound all her own.

The Recording Academy® (www.grammy.com) recently held its spring Board of Trustees meeting in Los Angeles, and elections for National Officers yielded the following: award-winning music video director/producer George J. Flanigen from Nashville was re-elected to a second term as Chair; recording artist Christine Albert from Texas was elected Vice Chair; engineer/producer Glenn Lorbecki from the Pacific Northwest continues for a second term as Secretary/Treasurer; and five-time GRAMMY® winner Jimmy Jam from Los Angeles was re-elected for a second term as Chair Emeritus.

The GRAMMY Foundation® announced today that 111 talented high school students from 93 cities and 34 states across the United States have been selected as participants in the seventh annual GRAMMY Camp®.

The Recording Academy® (www.grammy.com) and CBS (www.cbs.com) announced today a new 10-year deal that will keep Music's Biggest Night®, the annual GRAMMY Awards® broadcast, on CBS through 2021.

Honorees: Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan and Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman.

The 7th Annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert- a dinner and concert to benefit the MusiCares MAP Fund, which provides members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment.

The seventh annual MusiCares MAP FundSM benefit concert will honor Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan and Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on Friday, May 6, 2011.

Honorees: Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan and Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman.

The 7th Annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert- a dinner and concert to benefit the MusiCares MAP Fund, which provides members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment.

Honorees: Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan and Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman.

The GRAMMY Foundation® (www.grammyfoundation.com) today announced that 36 schools nationwide have been selected as GRAMMY® Signature Schools (www.grammyintheschools.com) for 2011.

In the past two decades, the Grammy Award that many theatre fans take note of has been known as 'Best Musical Show Album', and has been awarded to Broadway casts along with the producers and composers who helped to put the show on the Great White Way. Is that about to change? In accordance with the newly announced category restructuring for the 2012 Grammys, at least one part of the award will change: it will now be entitled 'Best Musical Theater Album' in an effort to widen the category.

In an effort to continuously evolve its GRAMMY® Awards process, The Recording Academy® (www.grammy.com) announced today that it has restructured the GRAMMY Categories across all genres and Fields, bringing the total number of Categories to be recognized at the 54th GRAMMY Awards in 2012, to 78 (from 109).