When musicians gather in Los Angeles on Sunday for the annual Grammy Awards, they’ll be dropping into a country in crisis.
Actors, athletes and musicians have been speaking increasingly loudly about the Trump administration’s actions in Minneapolis, following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti last weekend.
“You never know how it’s going to play out but the one thing, I think, we have, as an advantage to be honest, is the fact that musicians — we’re communicators,” said Harvey Mason, Jr., the president and chief executive officer of the Recording Academy, which presents the Grammys.
“You’re going to hear and feel what’s going on in the world through the music,” he told CNN.
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