The late Steve Jobs was honoured with a Grammy Trustees Award on Saturday for his contributions to the music industry, which included helping to develop the iPod and reshaping the way music is sold with the iTunes Store.
The award is meant to “recognise contributions to the music industry in areas other than performance,” CBS News reports. It was was accepted by Apple’s senior vice-president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue.
“Accepting this award means so much to me because music meant so much to him,” Cue said at the awards ceremony. “He told us that music shaped his life. It made him who he was. Everyone who knows Steve knows the profound impact that artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles had on him.”
Apple was previously awarded a technical Grammy in 2002, but this award is meant specifically for Jobs. Other recipients of this year’s Trustees Awards include band leader Dave Bartholomew and jazz engineer Rudy van Gelder. Past winners include Walt Disney and The Beatles, two names we’re sure Jobs wouldn’t mind standing alongside. — Devindra Hardawar, VentureBeat
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