{"id":792633,"date":"2019-02-01T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=788032"},"modified":"2019-02-01T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:02:26","slug":"top-artists-join-recording-academy-initiative-to-support-female-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/top-artists-join-recording-academy-initiative-to-support-female-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Artists Join Recording Academy Initiative to Support Female Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skeptical as the music industry<\/a> might\u2019ve been at first about Recording Academy\u2019s newly organized Task Force for Diversity and Inclusion<\/a>, the group has made strides in the year of its existence. In the fall, the task force invited 900 music creators to join the voting community. On Friday, it announced an initiative to boost the number of female producers and engineers in the industry, with over 200 artists \u2014 including Ariana Grande, Cardi B, Common, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, John Legend and Keith Urban \u2014 signing on.<\/p>\n

The initiative, according to a press release, \u201ccalls on any entity\u00a0or individual responsible for or involved in selecting and hiring producers and engineers to commit to making hiring decisions only after considering a slate of candidates that includes at least two women,\u201d and provides a website<\/a> linking to resources for music-makers in search of female candidates for those roles. It also asks producers already in the industry to \u201ctake gender diversity challenges in music\u2019s technical fields into account\u201d when weighing individuals for promotion and mentorship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no magic bullet to shift a status quo that has existed for centuries, but we see this initiative as an important step,\u201d Tiny Tchen, chair of the task force and former chief of staff to Michelle Obama, said in the release. \u201cWe aren\u2019t here to tell anyone who to hire, but we have seen repeatedly that the simple act of making sure diverse candidates are always seen and considered makes it more likely that women will get the opportunities they previously have been denied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tchen, like other executives at the organization who\u2019ve spoken about the task force in the past, called such an idea \u201coverdue.\u201d The founding supporters of the initiative comprise a number of artist management companies and agencies; producers including Jack Antonoff, Diplo, Quincy Jones, Max Martin, Linda Perry, The Chainsmokers, and Pharrell Williams; labels including Columbia, Big Machine, Epic, Glassnote, Def Jam, RCA; and artists including 2 Chainz, Brandi Carlile, Chance the Rapper, Selena Gomez, Sharon Van Etten, Post Malone, Maroon 5, and Halsey, in addition to those aforementioned. The majority of artists and producers are supporters of the initiative alone, though several (Cam, Common, Andra Day, Jimmy Jam, TRAKGIRL) are members of the parent task force as well.<\/p>\n

Such an initiative comes amid broader industry tension around gender issues like sexual harassment and job discrimination, as events like Lifetime\u2019s Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> documentary bring them more into public conversation. Exiting Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said in his remarks accompanying the Grammy nomination announcements a few weeks ago that \u201creflection and reevaluation\u201d around industry diversity have been priorities of the organization in the past year. \u201cThey don\u2019t have a start and a finish. We\u2019ve begun, and I think there\u2019s always more to do,\u201d said Portnow<\/a>, who will host his final Grammy Awards next Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Skeptical as the music industry might\u2019ve been at first about Recording Academy\u2019s newly organized Task Force for Diversity and Inclusion, the group has made strides in the year of its existence. In the fall, the task force invited 900 music creators to join the voting community. On Friday, it announced an initiative to boost the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:38:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}