LOS ANGELES - Rockers David Bowie and Cream, country icon Merle Haggard and late comic innovator Richard Pryor are among the recipients of the Recording Academy's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Also being honored this year for their career-long artistic contributions are blues legend Robert Johnson, opera star Jessye Norman and
folk group the Weavers.
Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, engineer Al Schmitt and producer Owen Bradley will receive the Trustees Award, presented for non-performing contributions. Engineer/producer Tom Dowd -- subject of the 2003 documentary Tom Dowd & the Language of Music -- and Bell Labs/Western Electric will receive Technical Grammy Awards.
The special merit awards -- including the posthumous tributes to Johnson, Pryor, Bradley and Dowd -- will be presented at a February 7 ceremony and recognised during the February 8 Grammy Awards.
- REUTERS/Billboard
