She Is The Music Honors Gracie Abrams
• She Is The Music honored GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams and her impressive team of women at the Women Sharing The Spotlight event at The Peppermint Club in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 27. The powerful evening celebrated 50 impactful women in the music industry, each of whom shared their spotlight with another woman in the business.
Global superstar Alicia Keys introduced Abrams, saying, “When I found out that she has, like, 40 women who are a part of her team… this is the living embodiment, the walking the walk, the breathing the breath, the doing the thing that we’re talking about. Because it’s one thing to talk about it, it’s another thing to actually live it and breathe it and execute it and be it and believe in it… this all-female led team is still an exception in this business, and this is a reminder that we belong in every room, we belong at every table, and we should be leading every conversation.”
When accepting her honor, Gracie Abrams remarked, “It’s an interesting time to be a woman in America, and I firmly believe that the way we survive and thrive is by leading together, by sticking our necks out for each other — especially when it’s difficult — and by being in community as much as possible. To improvise off Margaret Mead if you’ll allow: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed WOMEN can change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.'”
Attendees also heard powerful remarks from Jody Gerson, Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group and Co-Founder of She Is The Music, Michelle Yablans, Exec. Director of She Is The Music, and Andreea Gleeson, CEO of TuneCore.
Pictured, (l-r): Jeanine McLean-Williams (Pres., MBK Entertainment); Ann Mincieli (Grammy Award-winning Engineer & Producer); Shirley Halperin (Co-Editor-In-Chief, The Hollywood Reporter); Jody Gerson; Gracie Abrams, Alicia Keys, Andreea Gleeson; Marcie Allen (President, Mac Presents); Sam Kirby Yoh (Partner & Global Co-Head of Music, UTA); and Michelle Yablans. [Photo by Stefanie Keenan / Getty Images for She Is The Music/MAC Presents]
