"It made me mad, made me angry," she told The Guardian in 2001. "But it helped show me what a strong woman my mother was, and made me want to be strong like her. Keys' parents split up when she was 2 and, growing up, she didn't have a relationship with her father, Craig Cook, a flight attendant. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor." These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. "In the '80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. "Times Square was dark-gee, it was dismal," Keys told The Guardianin 2016.
Her attorney called the accusation that she never raised concerns before she herself was accused of misconduct "completely false."Īlicia Augello-Cook hails from the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, where she was raised by her mother, Teresa Augello, an Italian-American legal secretary and actress who exposed her daughter at an early age to jazz and classical music and had her in piano lessons by the time she was 7. Dugan never raised these grave allegations until a week after legal claims were made against her personally by a female employee," the Academy said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. Portnow stepped down after 17 years last summer and all was seeingly well leading up to the 2020 show, what with Lizzo leading the field with eight nominations and the usual slew of who'd-a-thought-to-put- them-together performances falling into place. Last week, however, Portnow's successor, Deborah Dugan, was placed on leave forcreating a "toxic and intolerable working environment" and bullying a female assistant, according to a memo sent to members by interim Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason Jr.ĭugan has since filed a complaint against the Recording Academy with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, among other bombshell allegations-including that the voting process is rigged. In addition to Keys being brought in as the first woman to host in 14 years, five of the eight Album of the Year nominees were by female artists and 31 women took home awards that night. A blue-ribbon panel was formed to examine areas where the stodgy old Academy could improve. Efforts to be more inclusive in 2019 were evident in the wake of then-Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow's ill-advised entreaty to women in 2018 to "step up" if they wanted to be more prevalent on the big stage.
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