The music industry’s most important award in the United States, the Grammy Awards, announced on Wednesday the addition of a category to honor the best video game music, a new sign of their quest for diversity and recognition for the sector. that.
The award for Best Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media is one of five new awards debuting at the 65th Grammy Awards in 2023, along with Best Musician Songwriter or Songwriter. year at Best Spoken Poetry Album.
The Academy’s top priority is to effectively represent the music people we serve, and each year that means listening to our members and making sure our rules and regulations reflect our ever -changing industry.said in a press release Harvey Mason Jr., president of the Recording Academy, which brings together professionals in the music industry.
The news was positively received on social media, with people on Twitter offering retroactive rewards for the soundtracks of street fighter 3, Mario Kart 8 where Final Fantasy 8by Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu, along with many suggestions.
If there isn’t already a specific category, music from video games has already been recognized at Grammy awards. The piece Baba Yetucomposed by Christopher Tin for the famous video game strategy Civilization IVwon the award for best fix in 2011.
At the final ceremony, Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman, along with The 8-Bit Big Band, were crowned in this category for their version of Revenge of the Meta Knighta piece of video game Kirby Superstar.
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Source: Radio-Canada