In a recent trip to Ghana, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told Ghanaian journalists that the Recording Academy was in talks with the key players in the Afrobeat music scene to explore the possibility of adding Afrobeat to the award’s genre list.
“We just had a meeting literarily about six to seven days ago, with leaders of the Afrobeats community.
We had listening session where we heard from Afrobeats creators, Mason said. “I don’t decide categories.
The categories are decided by proposals by members. Members can say ‘Harvey, I want an Afrobeat category,’ they write a proposal for the category they talked about.
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