Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGrammy 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 in recent months much of its focus has been on helping all music people — 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.
MusiCares’ COVID-19 Relief Fund, which was launched only a couple of weeks after the pandemic took hold in the U.S., raised and distributed $20 million since April, and although it’s had to.
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