Brit Awards will address ‘lack of recognition’ for black and ethnic artists

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The Brit Awards will address a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;lack of recognition” for black and ethnic minority artists at next year’s ceremony&comma; the organisers’ chairman has said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ged Doherty admitted there was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;an elephant in the room” at last month’s event&comma; which saw no black and minority ethnic &lpar;BAME&rpar; artists nominated&comma; and the only non-white nominees selected in the international artists categories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Brit Awards will address a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;lack of recognition” for black and ethnic minority artists at next year’s ceremony&comma; the organisers’ chairman has said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ged Doherty admitted there was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;an elephant in the room” at last month’s event&comma; which saw no black and minority ethnic &lpar;BAME&rpar; artists nominated&comma; and the only non-white nominees selected in the international artist categories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A protest was staged outside the glitzy ceremony&comma; the hashtag BritsSoWhite gained momentum on social media and artists including Critics’ Choice winner Jack Garratt spoke out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Doherty&comma; chairman of the British Phonographic Industry &lpar;BPI&rpar;&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was an elephant some might characterise as a lack of diversity among the nominees&comma; but which&comma; for me&comma; was more about the lack of recognition of the emerging music that is a huge part of British youth culture&period; It’s this imbalance that lies at the heart of the criticism directed at the Brits’ nominations process&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a letter to the Guardian&comma; he added the voting academy for the awards&comma; made up of 1&comma;100 people&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;needs to be updated” and he suspected a survey of its make-up would find it is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;largely white and with a bias towards older men”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This does not mean that there is an underlying prejudice at play but the unintended consequence is that emerging genres of music may not be properly recognised&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those genres include grime and Mr Doherty recently met rapper Stormzy to discuss why his Top 10 hit Shut Up was not nominated – coming one week after the deadline for this year’s shortlist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two-time Mobo &lpar;Music of Black Origin&rpar; Award-winner had hit out at the organisers&comma; telling NME&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You know when you’ve got that little bit of hope and that little bit of faith&comma; and then they didn’t&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Doherty said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I explained that the Brits’ organisers are&comma; with the guidance of a new advisory committee that includes members of the BAME music community&comma; exploring initiatives that will enable the event to more effectively celebrate diverse&comma; breaking and established talent&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The voting academy will have at least 15&percnt; BAME representation&comma; in line with national trends&comma; and be more diverse in terms of age and region&comma; he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The backlash followed a similar outcry about the lack of diversity at this year’s Oscars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e1d199a15bc">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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