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THE RECORDING ACADEMY (NARAS)
35 Years at the Forefront of Issues and Excellence
The Recording Academy this year celebrates its thirty-fourth Annual
Grammy Awards, the music industry's most prestigious honor. The Recording
Academy itself dates back to 1957, when a select group of recording artists
and executives recognized the need for an organization to represent the
interests of the creative and technical people in the recording industry.
This led to the birth of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences,
Inc. (NARAS), also known as the Recording Academy, whose voting members are
all creatively or technically involved in the recording industry. They vote
in the Grammy process, which is predicated on artistic and technical
achievement rather than chart action or sales figures. Ella Fitzgerald, Frank
Sinatra, Henry Mancini and Count Basie were among the recipients of the first
Grammy Awards, which were presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in May of 1959.
The Recording Academy has continued to grow along with the industry it
represents. The Los Angeles chapter was incorporated in 1957, followed
by six more chapters, New York (1958), Chicago (1961), Nashville (1964),
Atlanta (1969), Memphis (1972) and San Francisco (1974). A national
structure was also developed to manage and administer the fledgling
not-for-profit organization's national activities (such as the Grammy
Awards), and in 1961 the National Academy was officially created. Today,
the Recording Academy's membership numbers approximately eight thousand.