Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLiterally minutes after the announcement that the Recording Academy has named Valeisha Butterfield Jones and Panos A.
Panay to the new roles of co-presidents hit the wires, the pair and CEO Harvey Mason, jr. were on a zoom call with Variety to talk about the organization’s new structure and what it means. (The three are pictured above, L-R: Panay, Mason, Butterfield Jones.)The home of the Grammys has been on a substantial overhaul since Mason took the helm in January of last year, and according to the announcement, Butterfield Jones (who will remain the Academy’s chief diversity officer) and Panay (founder of Sonicbids and most recently a top executive at Berklee School of Music) will be part of a “modernized.
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