Public Enemy To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Recording Academy

Iconic hip hop group Public Enemy will be receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement honor.

Public Enemy, Chicago, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Iggy Pop, John Prine, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe will all receive Lifetime Achievement awards from the Recording Academy, the organization announced today, as part of its 2020 Special Merit Awards, Variety reports.

The honorees will be given their awards at a special award presentation ceremony and concert on April 18, 2020; it will be hosted at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. “Our industry is one that prides itself on influence and paying it forward, and each year the Recording Academy has the privilege of honoring a select group of visionaries whose creative contributions have rippled throughout our culture,” said Deborah Dugan, President/CEO of the Recording Academy. “Our Special Merit Awards recipients have molded their musical passion into pieces of history that will continue to influence and inspire generations of music creators and music lovers to come.”

According to the announcement, the Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording.