Honorary Grammys for The Velvet Underground, Nina Simone and Sly Stone

This past Monday December 19, the Recording Academy announced that by 2017 the singer Nina Simone, Sly Stone and Tue Velvet Underground receive the honorary Grammy for career (Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards) in the scheduled ceremony on February 12 in Los Angeles.

For the legendary Nina Simone, it represents an achievement: remember that in his youth was a piano prodigy, who was denied any possibility of a career in the field of academic or classical music. However, endowed with an exquisite voice and interpretive unparalleled gift it is one of the most famous soul singers, besides being a social activist human rights.

Meanwhile, Sly Stone is considered one of the greats of funk, and in fact is considered a kind of predecessor of musicians like Prince, for example.

Similarly, The Velvet Underground was a group that introduced important changes in the rock of the sixties. We can not forget the famous album, the first in which the artist Andy Warhol served as producer, and in which members John Cale and Lou Reed touched topics as sexual and drugs, something that had not done so far .

Other musicians who will be honored Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride and Jimmie Rodgers.