As the Los Angeles fires continue to rage across the city, the Recording Academy and MusiCares made a combined pledge of $1 million to kick off a new relief effort to support musicians and industry professionals impacted by the devastating fires.
The Grammys voting body launched the effort in partnership with the Academy’s philanthropic arm to provide health, financial and rehabilitation resources for artists in L.A.
“The entire Grammy family is shocked and deeply saddened by the situation that is unfolding in Los Angeles,” Harvey Mason Jr., the Recording Academy’s chief executive, said in a statement Thursday night. “The music community is being so severely impacted but we will come together as an industry to support one another.