The music world has experienced some big losses in recent weeks, including Kenny Rogers and Bill Withers. Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
Withers was ushered into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. But neither artist received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy during their lifetimes. (Either or both could receive the honor posthumously.)The Recording Academy is seriously backlogged on its lifetime achievement awards.
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