Today (Aug. 4), the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) revealed honorees for its second annual Music in Action Awards Gala on Sept. 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Jon “Big Jon” Platt, chairman and CEO of Sony Music Publishing (pictured at left) will be receiving the Clarence Avant Trailblazer award. Kevin Liles, CEO of 300 Elektra Entertainment (right), will be honored with the BMAC Social Impact award alongside Amazon Music and the Recording Academy. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, attorney and author Brittany K. Barnett, and Cultural Creators’ Joi Brown will be recipients of the BMAC Change Agent award. And finally, Rep. Maxine Waters (center) will receive the inaugural BMAC Icon award.
Said Platt: “Clarence Avant is an extremely significant person in my life, so to be bestowed with the BMAC Trailblazer award in his name is a special honor. Clarence blazed a trail that continues to inspire so many of us, and I appreciate BMAC for following his path towards equality in the music business.”
“In the 35 years I have spent in our industry, I have tried to make every decision and every movement intentional with the overarching goal of social justice and equality,” added Liles. “It is my mission to bring about change so that boardrooms reflect the music that is being released. I am honored and humbled to receive BMAC’s Social Impact Award and am excited to continue the conversation and bring about necessary change in our industry.”
The recipient of this year’s Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award — which went to the Weeknd at BMAC’s first-ever ceremony in 2021 — will be announced at a later date.
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SOURCE: Variety, Thania Garcia
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:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69909221/A5D0EC0A_C7EF_4236_8809_CDD93870167F.0.jpeg "WATCH: The Weeknd gets emotional while accepting the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at event hosted by the Black Music Action Coalition")
