Right now the Recording Academy® prolonged its annual membership invites to almost 3,600 established music professionals spanning numerous backgrounds, genres and disciplines, underscoring the Academy’s dedication to recruiting certified members from throughout the music panorama. This 12 months’s 2025 class of invitees is 49 p.c girls, 56 p.c Folks of Coloration and 60 p.c below the age of 40. The invites prolonged in the present day provide every potential new member a chance to energy the Recording Academy’s mission of cultivating the well-being of the music group, celebrating creative excellence within the recording arts, advocating for human creators’ rights, and extra.
“For in the present day’s music creators, GRAMMY® membership opens up an unimaginable set of alternatives,” stated Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “Not solely do voting members get the prospect to honor their friends with GRAMMY nominations and awards, Academy members get entry to hands-on expertise, ability improvement to advance their careers, publicity to friends and mentors within the music business and be a part of a corporation shaping the way forward for music.”
Celebrating receiving an invite in the present day to turn into new Recording Academy members embrace Joey Bada$$, alameda, LaRussell, Mariah The Scientist, and extra expressing their pleasure of their new journey forward:
- Addison Rae – “It’s a enormous honor to affix the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025 New Member Class. I’m so fortunate to be surrounded by expertise and poise that conjures up me to create fearlessly and assist encourage others to take action as effectively. Thanks for this unimaginable alternative!”
- Alemeda – “I’m really lucky to affix the Recording Academy’s 2025 New Member Class alongside so many unimaginable friends. It’s a privilege to signify and empower my fellow musicians and creatives as we assist form the way forward for music.”
- Audrey Nuna – “I’m excited to turn into a Recording Academy member and have a seat on the desk. Trying ahead to becoming a member of the Academy and its continued efforts to advocate for music, in a extra inclusive and equitable approach. Thanks for this honor.”
- Chase Rice “I’ve been lucky to expertise success within the music business for over a decade, however this new chapter – creating impartial, sincere initiatives that really replicate who I’m – appears like crucial work I’ve carried out. Being invited to affix the Recording Academy at this stage in my profession is an unimaginable honor, and I’m grateful for the chance to face alongside and assist different artists who’re out right here chasing what’s actual too.”
- Chrisette Michele – “I’m so excited to affix the GRAMMY / Recording Academy’s class of 2025. What an honor to contribute to the ahead motion of music, musicianship and tradition. Music is my life, my breath, and all I take into consideration. That is such an ideal pleasure.”
- DJ Diamond Kuts – “I’m tremendous excited to be part of the Recording Academy. The Recording Academy performs such a significant half in music, and I’m honored to be part of this phenomenal staff.”
- Dondria – “I’m so excited to be part of The Recording Academy/GRAMMYs New Member Class of 2025. It’s an honor to affix a group that uplifts music and the individuals who create it. I’m trying ahead to studying, connecting, and utilizing my voice to assist fellow artists.”
- Ella Langley – “I’m very grateful to be included within the Recording Academy’s 2025 New Member Class. That is the one factor I’ve ever wished to do and I’m extraordinarily proud to be an artist & songwriter included in a group of different creators that form the complete business.”
- Felukah – “Music adjustments the way in which we expertise the world round us. With the ability to make music and advocate for the music of my friends has all the time been the dream, so becoming a member of the GRAMMYs New Member Class is basically thrilling.”
- Foggieraw – “Grateful to be aside of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025 New Member Class. I’ve been capable of accomplish so much this 12 months, however really honored to affix the academy and advocate for my fellow artists.”
- Grupo Firme – “Nos sentimos profundamente honrados de ser parte de la nueva generación de miembros de la Recording Academy. Representar la música Mexicana en este espacio world es un sueño hecho realidad, y estamos listos para alzar la voz por nuestra cultura, y nuestras raíces. ¡Vamos con todo!”
- Halima – “Turning into a member of the Recording Academy is actually significant to me. As a queer black girl, it’s highly effective to affix a group of my friends the place our views could be represented and championed. I’m excited to contribute to shaping a extra inclusive and dynamic future for music.”
- J Noa – “Receiving this chance means so much to me. Everybody is aware of that while you come from the streets and have restricted sources, you actually must hustle to get one thing like this. So this appears like an enormous recognition and a reward for doing issues the best approach. I wish to thank the Academy and the individuals who’ve all the time had my again.”
- Joey Bada$$ – “Being invited to affix the Recording Academy is a real honor and a strong acknowledgment of the work I’ve put into my craft. It’s extra than simply recognition, it’s a chance to have a voice in shaping the way forward for music and to face alongside the artists and creators I respect most. I’m proud to signify not simply myself, however the tradition and group that raised me.”
- KATSEYE – “We’re so honored to be a part of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025 New Member Class! It’s thrilling to face alongside such inspiring artists and be a part of a group that really champions music, artistry, and variety.”
- Kelli O’Hara – “I’m thrilled and honored to be a member of the Recording Academy’s 2025 membership class. Wow! I feel music is essentially the most integral a part of our shared human expertise. The creation of music and preservation of that creation is paramount to our creative survival, and I’m honored to participate in celebrating and rewarding that within the deepest approach. Thanks!”
- LAILA! – “It’s an unimaginable honor to be invited to affix the Recording Academy. I used to be impressed to turn into a member as a result of I wish to be a part of the dialog – serving to form a extra inclusive and modern music business for the subsequent era.”
- LaRussell – “I’m excited to be a part of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025 New Member Class! I understand how vital it’s to have a spread of musical backgrounds on the desk. I’m trying ahead to having the ability to advocate for this and the subsequent era of musicians who could not have gotten an opportunity or felt seen beforehand. I’m honored to be aside of one thing so important in our business.”
- Maiya The Don – “Music is so vital to me – it’s so far more than a passion or a job. I’m so grateful and excited to be a member of the Recording Academy New Member Class! To be acknowledged and invited to assist and advocate for my friends is a privilege. I’m honored. Thanks.”
- Mariah The Scientist – “Honored to be a part of the Recording Academy’s 2025 New Membership Class. I’ve all the time made music from an actual place – sincere, susceptible, mine. To be invited into an area that uplifts artists like me is a full-circle second. Grateful to be seen, and able to stand for the way forward for music.”
- Monaleo – “Being thought-about to be a part of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025 New Member Class means so much to me as a result of I’m really a fan and pupil of music. I consider music is sacred and ought to be handled as such. I’m enthusiastic about artwork so being invited amongst a panel of likeminded people would fill my coronary heart.”
- Nikki Glaser – “I’m past thrilled to say I’m within the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025 New Member Class. I screamed once I came upon. That is the best factor the GRAMMYs have given me for the reason that half of Benson Boone’s tuxedo I stored after final 12 months’s present. I couldn’t be extra honored to affix this unimaginable roster of creatives and really get to play an element in rewarding my favourite music and performers. It is a function I’m going to take very significantly and as a comic, it’ll be good to lastly have one factor I do in earnest.”
- Pip Millett – “I’m honoured to turn into a member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs 2025! It appears like one other thrilling step additional right into a inventive world I already love. I’m extremely grateful to be becoming a member of such a beautiful roster!”
- Rae Khalil – “Receiving a Recording Academy member invitation wouldn’t solely be an honor however it might symbolize the dedication and self-discipline as a member of the artist group, whereas invigorating me to remain passionate and be an inspiring voice to my fellow artists.”
- Rob49 – “I’m excited to turn into a member of the Recording Academy / GRAMMYs. I’m representing the brand new wave of New Orleans and rap. It’s vital for me as an artist to have my metropolis represented.”
- Samara Cyn – “I’m truthfully so honored to be invited to this 12 months’s Recording Academy New Member class. I really like music and this appears like a very cool strategy to assist and uplift high quality music in addition to my friends and idols that give a lot to their craft. I’m actually proud to be right here alongside such superb creatives.”
New members have the chance to take part in most of the Academy’s initiatives similar to drive significant DEI progress and affect by means of the DREAM Initiative, advocate and acknowledge the creators behind the music by means of federal and state Advocacy efforts, interact in programming with the Producers & Engineers Wing® and Songwriters & Composers Wing, assist their friends throughout the Academy’s 12 Chapter cities, and extra. Recording Academy Voting Members — made up of artists, songwriters, producers, and engineers energetic within the music business — are eligible to vote for the GRAMMY Awards®, in the end figuring out the outcomes on Music’s Greatest Night time® and shaping music historical past.
Invites have to be formally accepted for invitees to turn into Recording Academy members.