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04.22.08 NARM Announces Award
Winners
Blues Icon B.B. King To Be Honored With
Chairman's Award; Rock Legend Jackson Browne To Accept Humanitarian
Award
The National Association of Recording
Merchandisers (NARM) announces that it will honor two music legends at
its upcoming annual convention, which will be held in San Francisco May
4 - 7, and will celebrate the organization's 50th
anniversary.
B.B. King, who has won 14 GRAMMY awards and
recorded over 150 albums during his career, will receive the prestigious
Chairman's Award For Sustained Creative Achievement. Also, renowned
singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, an award-winning artist, who has been
inducted in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004) and Songwriter's
Hall of Fame (2007), will be honored with the Harry Chapin Memorial
Humanitarian Award. This award was established by NARM to memorialize
Chapin's efforts on behalf of the environment and other humanitarian
causes.
NARM congratulates both King and Browne for
their outstanding contributions to the music industry. "We applaud B.B.
King's passion and tremendous, far-reaching talent," says NARM President
Jim Donio. "We are also very honored to award Jackson Browne for his
generous humanitarian efforts that have made such a positive impact on
the world."
King will join a talented and exclusive roster
of artists who have previously received the NARM Chairman's Award,
including Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson,
Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Leonard Bernstein, Garth Brooks,
Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, and Chicago, among others.
Both artists will accept their awards during the NARM 50th Anniversary
Gala Dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 7.
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