2015 Special Merit Awards Ceremony Highlights | GRAMMYs

The Recording Academy honored recipients of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Awards, Technical GRAMMY Award, and Music Educator Award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception on Feb. 7 in Los Angeles. Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award were the Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, Buddy Guy, *George Harrison, Flaco Jiménez, *the Louvin Brothers, and Wayne Shorter; the Trustees Award honorees were Richard Perry, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, and George Wein; Ray Kurzweil was honored with the Technical GRAMMY Award, and Jared Cassedy was honored with the Music Educator Award. (*denotes posthumous) Subscribe NOW to GRAMMYs on YouTube: About GRAMMYs: The recording industry’s most prestigious award, the GRAMMY, is presented annually by The Recording Academy. A GRAMMY is awarded by The Recording Academy’s voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences. It is truly a peer honor, awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic