The Grammy Awards has weathered its fair share of controversies over the years. Everything from bias challenges in the institution and its own #MeToo moments have put it in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, yet despite this, it still all culminates once a year in a bombastic evening of music television that keeps people talking for the following 12 months.
In the house, though – specifically, downtown Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena – the week before the awards show was to air on 5 February, there’s no such controversy. A remarkably consistent crew of pro-audio veterans has been helming the Grammy Awards’ technical tiller, some of them for well over 20 or even 30 years. Like the seasoned crew of a sturdy ship, they are more likely to change places than change faces. For instance, the production added a second FOH engineer this year, but that person had previously been one of the show’s regular monitor engineers.
Words: Dan Daley
Photos: Dan Daley