Nirvana and Heart sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson acquired lifetime achievement awards on Saturday on the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards, becoming a member of a prestigious group of honorees that additionally included the Supremes, Chic’s Nile Rodgers and rapper Slick Rick.
Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear all attended the ceremony, which came about on the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. Novoselic took the lead within the acceptance speech, quoting a lyric from Nirvana’s 1993 In Utero music “Serve the Servants” and marveling on the band’s long-term affect on musicians and music followers. “They said that Kurt [Cobain] was witty or maybe he was a smartass,” Novoselic mentioned. “And he said, ‘Teenage angst has paid off well.’ It has.”
“I do fan mail, old-fashioned fan mail, and I get letters from around the world, like Nirvana fans, just all around the world,” the bassist continued. “A lot of young people. There’s a new generation of Nirvana fans, and I’m just very grateful for that.”
Ann Wilson didn’t attend the ceremony; Hipgnosis Songs founder Merck Mercuriadis as an alternative accepted the lifetime achievement award on her behalf. Nancy did attend, nonetheless, and mirrored on an illustrious profession that’s spanned practically 5 a long time.
“In 1974, I followed my calling, which pulled me out of my college dorm room to capture this dream I had with my sister since we were little kids,” she mentioned. “The dream was to be the Beatles. We followed our muse through the decades. We blazed a few trails and broke a few glass ceilings along the way for both men and women. And Recording Academy, thank you forever for this. It’s gonna look super sweet on my grandma’s piano in my home studio.”
You can see the total record of Special Merit Awards honorees right here and watch a recap video under.
Recording Academy Special Merit Awards Recap
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