But during Sunday night’s broadcast of the Grammy Awards, he was missing from the “In Memoriam” segment, sparking criticism from fans and viewers — including his daughter Lisa, the executive director of the National Book Foundation. She tweeted that she was “fully offended” and “so enraged” that “the Grammys forgot” her Grammy-winning father. I feel some kind of way that the Grammys forgot my dad, a Grammy winner, in the In Memoriam section. Discussing the In Memoriam segment in a December interview, Recording Academy President Neil Portnow told Rolling Stone that it was “a daunting challenge” to decide which artists to include. “Our on-air in memoriam — we’re lucky if we wind up [featuring] 10 to 15 percent of those we lose.

Source: Huffington Post February 11, 2019 21:00 UTC