The Recording Academy presented the Special Merit Awards to Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees Laurie Anderson, the Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer, and Tammy Wynette; Trustees Award recipients Peter Asher, DJ Kool Herc and Joel Katz; Technical GRAMMY Award honorees Tom Kobayashi and Tom Scott; and the Best Song For Social Change Award to "Refugee," written by K'naan, Steve McEwan and Gerald Eaton (a.k.a. Jarvis Church).

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