A huge battle is brewing at the world's biggest, most established music awards platform. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), as is generally well known in music circles, has
made big cuts to the 2012 categories. Out, reportedly, are categories like traditional gospel, children's spoken-word, and Zydeco/Cajun. But the category that has people up in arms is NARAS' decision
to kill Latin Jazz. Now Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman Santana have sent a letter to NARAS trustees asking them to re-consider. "Without Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Joao Gilberto and countless
others, there would be no Santana."
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