NARM Announces Award Winners

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. (Top40 Charts/ NARM) - The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) announces that it will honor two music legends at its upcoming annual convention, which will be held in San Francisco May 4 – 7, and will celebrate the organization's 50th anniversary.

B.B. King, who has won 14 GRAMMY awards and recorded over 150 albums during his career, will receive the prestigious Chairman's Award For Sustained Creative Achievement. Also, renowned singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, an award-winning artist, who has been inducted in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004) and Songwriter's Hall of Fame (2007), will be honored with the Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award. This award was established by NARM to memorialize Chapin's efforts on behalf of the environment and other humanitarian causes.

NARM congratulates both King and Browne for their outstanding contributions to the music industry. 'We applaud B.B. King's passion and tremendous, far-reaching talent,' says NARM President Jim Donio. 'We are also very honored to award Jackson Browne for his generous humanitarian efforts that have made such a positive impact on the world.'

King will join a talented and exclusive roster of artists who have previously received the NARM Chairman's Award, including Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Leonard Bernstein, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, and Chicago, among others.

Both artists will accept their awards during the NARM 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 7.