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Black music stars to protest over Grammy cuts?

Musicians take a stand against the award ceremony announcing cuts to R‘n’B categories
18/07/2011 01:33 PM

PROTEST: Matthew Knolwes, pictured here with daughter Beyoncé, is said to be angry at the announcement of cuts to the R'n'B categories at the Grammy Awards

BLACK MUSIC stars and industry experts are set to protest over the recent announcement that the Grammy Awards would cut some of its R‘n’B categories.

It is thought that some of those eliminations will include categories such as, Best R&B Female, Best R&B Male, Best Urban Alternative Performance and, Best Contemporary R&B Album.

Black record label executives including Beyoncé’s father and former manager, Matthew Knowles, and singers including Musiq Soulchild and Betty Wright, are urging The Recording Academy, the organisation behind the Grammys, to reinstate said categories at the awards.

The group are expected to issue a formal statement of protest to The Recording Academy offices in Atlanta, Santa Monica, D.C., Philly, Chicago and New York later this month.

Posted on: 18/07/2011 01:33 PM

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She's mixed raced you idiot....

Mon, 2011-07-18 20:51

Her mum is mixed race. Her

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Her mum is mixed race. Her mum is now darker in colour than she has become.

Tue, 2011-07-19 11:39

I don't for a second think

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I don't for a second think that Beyonce has been 'skin-lightening'.

This paranoia has to stop, people!

One person passes this off as fact and everyone else piles in as if they read it in the Encyclopaedia!

She's always had fair skin - deal with it.

The issue has got less to do with how light skinned the artists are than it has to do with how the business sees black music in general.

There will, after all, come a time when these categories will become redundant as more and more of the music industry is dominated by mainstream black music artists.

It certainly isn't so far off - which is why that discussion is now clearly taking place.

Black, American music already controls the mainstream popchart airwaves of most of the world.

If not now then when?

Mon, 2011-07-18 18:28

I don't think more and more

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I don't think more and more of the music industry is dominated by black musicians. You will have to find evidence to back this up. Also it is fairly obviousm Beyonce has laways been light skinned. But she is now almost white skinned, with the blonde hair to match.
I have read of white artists being given preference in record deals, even by black producers. There is even a story on here about it if you look it up, I think its called "Is music black and white." It is highlighting the trend to sign less and less black artists singing what is traditionally considered black music, and to instead sign a white artist, and the reason being they generate more momey because the white fan base is bigger. Producers are thinking solely in terms of how much money they can generate.
Racism does not disappear, it simply reinvents itself, and society finds new ever more innovative ways to attempt to keep black people out of the spotlight.

Mon, 2011-07-18 20:24

His daughters skin

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His daughters skin lightening, and the attempts of her and other black mega stars to appear more and more european hardly help the cause of the protesting father Matthew Knowles. If black artists themselves dont want to even look black, it is helping those with a covert racist agenda to make black music as an artform disappear entirely, or become less visable.

Mon, 2011-07-18 15:23