Tina Turner, Jay-Z and Carole King among 2021 Cleveland Rock Hall inductees as Chaka Khan is snubbed for a second time since 2016....The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of inductees has become more diverse over the years....This year's ceremony will be held live in Cleveland, Ohio and will air at a later date on HBO and HBO Max...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black and alternative digital news leaders
The 2021 Rock Hall class includes Tina Turner, rapper Jay-Z and Carole King, among others The late Whitney Houston and the late The Notorious B.I.G. were both among the 2020 Rock Hall Class of inductees, which also included Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, T. Rex, and artist managers Jon Landau and Irving Azoff Grammy winning Black R&B artists Janet Jackson (left) and Chaka Khan were among 15 nominees, either by consideration as a group or individual, slated for possible induction in 2016 to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a landmark music history museum located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. But they were snubbed as were Black artists in general that year, all but one group, and women were snubbed entirely. A third of the 15 2016 nominees were Since then the Rock Hall inductee classes have become more diverse Clevelandurbannews .com and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.C
