When the group that organizes the Grammy Awards abruptly announced last April that it was cutting nearly a third of the award categories and eliminating trophies for smaller genres like Latin jazz and zydeco, it did not take long for the protests to start.
Latin jazz musicians in New York quickly started a petition drive and a Web site, and filed a lawsuit, accusing the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of violating its own rules and discriminating against ethnic minorities. A few older stars — Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana — took public stands against the changes, calling them a disservice to musicians outside the mainstream.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
