Back in June, four Latin jazz musicians announced that they planned to take legal action to against the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences after their genre, along with 30 other categories, were removed from the list of Grammy awards available. Monday, they kept that promise, and file suit against the Academy to have the award reinstated.
Ben Lapidus, Mark Levine, Eugene Marlow, and Bobby Sanabria are among a number of musicians upset by the Academy’s April announcement that they would be eliminating 31 of its 108 categories.
The musicians’ suit claims that by eliminating the categories, the Academy has failed to uphold its obligations to its members, adding that the removal of he Latin jazz category “could have severe detrimental impact on the plaintiffs’ musical careers.”
