Clifton Chenier to Receive A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Clifton Chenier to Receive A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 

Special Merit Award Ceremony on January 25, 2014!

December 12, 2013

by Lola Love
www.ZydecoOnline.com

Clifton Chenier, The King Of Zydeco Music will be Honored By the Recording Academy on January 25, 2014.

In December 2013, the Recording Academy (the Grammy's) announced  that Mr. Clifton Chenier (the King of Zydeco Music) will be a 2014 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, one of its Special Merit Awards. Clifton Chenier was previously recognized by the Recording Academy when he was awarded a Grammy Award in 1983 for his album "I'm Here".  

This is a special invitation-only ceremony that will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2014, the day before the 56th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California. C.J. Chenier, the son of Clifton Chenier will be accepting the award on behalf of his father.  Your Zydeco Lady, Lola Love, Rod Sias, founder of the Zydeco Historical and Preservation Society and ZydecoOnline, and cousin of C.J. Chenier, and Gabriel Lewis Photography will attend the ceremony as special guest of C.J. Chenier. 

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors performers who have made contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording while the Trustees Award recognizes such contributions in areas other than performance.

Special Merit Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award

Class Of 2014

Clifton Chenier

The Beatles

the Isley Brothers,

Kraftwerk, 

Kris Kristofferson, 

Armando Manzanero, 

Maud Powell

Trustees Award Honorees 

Rick Hall, 

Jim Marshall 

Ennio Morricone

Technical GRAMMY Award Recipients

Emile Berliner

Lexicon 

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