Beyoncé or Adele? Kendrick Lamar or Bad Bunny? Willie Nelson or Buddy Guy? Wet Leg or Maneskin? Dave Chappelle or Louis C.K.?
Regardless of who wins or loses at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, its honcho Harvey Mason Jr. knows exactly what the perfect edition of the Grammys should be like. "Everyone wins every award they were nominated for!" he said, laughing heartily.
Mason is himself a five-time nominee as a songwriter and producer whose first nomination came for co-writing "He Wasn't Man Enough, a 2000 hit for Toni Braxton. As of May 2021, Mason is also the first Black CEO in the history of the Recording Academy, the nonprofit music-advocacy organization under whose auspices the Grammys are presented.
