Grammy Awards are great, but the Recording Academy’s greatest contribution to the music industry is arguably MusiCares — its charitable foundation to support music industry workers in need.
In simpler times, it helps people with everything from emergency health care to substance-abuse treatment, but these days it has focused on helping music people — everyone, not just Academy members — who have lost their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the music industry and much of the world.
Last week the Recording Academy and MusiCares launched the COVID-19 Relief Fund with $2 million, and earlier this week Amazon Music, Facebook, SiriusXM-Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music made “generous” contributions to it —
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