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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 28 January 2020

This cover image released by Trimeter Records shows “The Fam-
ily Songbook” by The Haden Triplets.
Associated Press

Review: DJ Khaled poses in the press room with the award for best rap/sung performance for "Higher" at
the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles.
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Haden Triplets Music mainstays and newcomers

sustain tradition speak out on Grammy inclusion

of sibling harmony

By LEANNE ITALIE awards are rigged and said he wasn't surprised
By PABLO GORONDI viously unpublished songs AP Entertainment Writer filled with conflicts of inter- about the Grammy criti-
Associated Press from their grandfather, Carl NEW YORK (AP) — Drama est. At the Clive Davis gala cism.
On their new album, “The E. Haden. over fairness and inclusion Saturday night, Combs — "Diddy could actually be
Family Songbook,” The They may have been sung at the Grammy Awards who was honored — spoke a politician. I thought this
Haden Triplets sustain the on the the Haden Family carried over to music's big for 50 fiery minutes, saying speech was powerful. It
longstanding musical tra- radio show in Missouri in the night Sunday as newcom- in part: touched on a lot of things
dition of siblings singing 1930s, where Dad Charlie ers and mainstays in the "So I say this with love to people were afraid to say,"
in harmony while also ex- got his start as a yodeling industry supported Sean the Grammys, because he said.
panding their family’s mu- toddler, but were not re- "Diddy" Combs and his you really need to know Of Dugan calling out ma-
sical footprint, which goes corded. Their recovery is a powerful speech putting this, every year y'all be kill- nipulation of the nomina-
back generations. real treat. the Recording Academy ing us man. Man, I'm talking tion process, he said, "It's
On the second album The four dusted-off works on a clock to fix the nomi- about the pain. I'm speak- not like it's news. We've
they’ve recorded as a include “Memories of Will nation process when it ing for all these artists here, known it all along. It's just
group, Petra, Rachel and Rogers,” an homage to the comes to rap and R&B in the producers, the execu- coming to the forefront. All
Tanya Haden, daughters actor and humorist who major categories. tives. that is hidden will come to
of legendary jazz bassist died in a 1935 Alaska air- "I think if they smart, they lis- The amount of time it takes light."
Charlie Haden, interpret a plane crash, and the lovely ten to Diddy," soulful singer to make these records, to Tyler, The Creator said
wide range of songs. but fatalistic “Who Will You Lucky Daye told The Associ- pour your heart into it, and backstage after his "Igor"
The selections include not Love.” ated Press on the red car- you just want an even play- won best rap album that
just American folk stan- The sisters’ natural empathy pet. ing field." he's "half and half" on the
dards like “Wayfaring really shines through across British rapper Labrinth add- Combs urged in his speech controversy over whether
Stranger” and “Flee As A the album, produced by ed: "Hopefully there's a that substantive change Grammy voting is fair.
Bird,” but a heartbreaker Woody Jackson, and the conversation to really think should come within 365 "On one side, I'm very grate-
from Kanye West, “Say You songs from their grandfa- about what's happened." days. ful that what I made could
Will,” and even a composi- ther are a shining addi- Days ago, the academy's Legend Smokey Robinson just be acknowledged in a
tion from their brother, Josh. tion to the family treasure just-ousted CEO Deborah had words of support for world like this," he told re-
Also aboard are four pre- chest.q Dugan claimed that the Combs, his friend, but he porters. q