Legendary soul singer and Maze frontman Frankie Beverly will probably be honored with a posthumous Grammy at this 12 months’s Particular Advantage Awards ceremony in February. The Recording Academy’s Particular Advantage Award is an official Grammy Week occasion, taking place this 12 months in Los Angeles on February 1st.
Frankie Beverly, who died in September on the age of 77, based the band that grew to become Maze within the Seventies as Uncooked Soul, and would go on to grow to be one of the vital beloved figures in soul music. Frankie Beverly & Maze would construct an enviable legacy on hit recordings like “Comfortable Emotions” and “Earlier than I Let Go,” and critically acclaimed albums like Pleasure and Ache and We Are One. Maze really grew to become one of the vital celebrated reside acts of their era, with Frankie Beverly as the focus for an amazing stage present.
Frankie Beverly is to be honored with a 2025 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, alongside different luminaries resembling gospel icon Dr. Bobby Jones, blues star Taj Mahal, punk icons The Conflict, legendary rapper Roxanne Shante and 4 Seasons singer Frankie Valli. Additionally being celebrated at this 12 months’s Particular Advantage Awards, Glyn Johns, Tania Leon and Erroll Garner will obtain the Trustees Award, and the Technical Grammy will celebrated Dr. Leo Beranek.
“It is a tremendous privilege to honor this eclectic group of music icons in the course of the 12 months’s largest week in music,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. mentioned by way of assertion. “Every of this 12 months’s Particular Advantage Award recipients has left an indelible mark on music, from paving the way in which for others to innovation that perpetually has modified the trajectory of the musical panorama. We won’t wait to rejoice this group and their achievements in February.”
It must be famous that Frankie Beverly & Maze by no means received a aggressive Grammy throughout their 50+12 months profession.
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will air at 8pm EST on February 2nd, the day after the Particular Advantage Awards Ceremony, reside from Crypto.com Area in downtown Los Angeles.
