Steve Jobs wins posthumous Grammy
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(CBS) - The Recording Academy announced today that it would honor the late Steve Jobs with a Grammy at the Special Merit Awards.
Jobs revolutionized the music industry by pushing us into the digital age with the iPod and creating a new model for music distribution. When the iPod was launched, disc mans were the music player of choice.
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Which Grammy will Jobs win? The Recording Academy is awarding the co-founder of Apple with the Trustee Award, which honors non-performing contributions to the music industry.
Other honorees include Glen Campbell, the Allman Brothers Band, George Jones and Diana Ross. They will be recipients of Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Jobs died on Oct. 5 after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer.
A ceremony will be held for the even on Feb. 11, 2012, a day before the Grammy Awards airs on CBS.
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- My, oh, my! Can any of you tell us what you have done to make this a better world? When will your phone, computer, tablet be on the market for all of us to buy? You should have listened when more enlightened ones spoke of: it's better to keep your mouth shut, and seem a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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- Jobs is great but a portable mp3 player isn't big news. As far as music distribution goes, I think it's awful because mp3 just aren't the quality of their cd counterparts. And you end up paying the same or more for an album, with nothing to show except a limited use digital file.
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