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Dr. Chelsey Green Is First Black Woman Elected as Recording Academy’s Chair of the Board of Trustees

Dr. Chelsey Green is the first Black woman elected as the Recording Academy’s chair of the board of trustees. At 39, she is also the youngest chair.

“I am honored to welcome both our newly elected board and national officers to the Recording Academy, made up of passionate, talented leaders who care deeply about music and the people who create it,” Mason said in a statement. An accomplished musician and ASCAP songwriter and publisher, Blakeman was signed with her band to Warner Bros. Records and subsequently toured in the ‘80s as a keyboardist for Billy Idol, Brian Wilson and Savage Garden, among many others. The full body includes seven Grammy winners: artists Ledisi and Avery Sunshine; songwriter Jonathan Yip; arranger Sara Garzarek; music supervisor Julia Michels; producer Cheche Alara; and engineer/mixer Reto Peter.

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