On Thursday, Jan. 22, amidst the mayhem of Grammy week in Los Angeles, the Vanity Group CEO Karleen Roy threw her inaugural “Grit Before the Gram” event. Billed as “the soundtrac…
EVP of urban promotion Juliette Jones, Interscope head of media strategy Cara Donatto, Quality Control Music’s Simone Mitchell, marketing executive Afrika Lander, and LL Cool J Inc. COO Claudine Joseph.
Choreographer and dancer Laurieann Gibson, who has worked with Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and Katy Perry, was another of the women being recognized. “I’m so excited that I’m making an alignment with women who walk the walk, talk the talk, and dance the dance,” she said. “I want to see artists really go back to honoring the opportunity to perform and become the record, rather than not take this opportunity seriously. Not everybody can touch the Grammy stage, we need to get those stakes back.
For Habtemariam, she entered the game early as child. “It was all black women I came up around,” she explains. “I never even thought it’d be an issue. That naiveness also allowed me to go through the game without any fear. If there was any bias, I was blind to it because I knew I belonged to it. I just knew I could exist as a great black women and do incredible art that’s purposeful. It’s really nice to see this all come together.
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