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Australian performing rights and copyright agency is revoking former Sony Music boss’s Ted Albert award

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Joy McKean in the 1950s. Courtesy Kirkpatrick Family Joy McKean, Australia’s “queen of country,” is the 2021 recipient of the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music, one of the highest accolades in the nation's music industry. It’s a fitting tribute for McKean, who paved the way for generations of homegrown country artists over a career spanning upwards of 70 years. The trailblazing country singer and songwriter first made her mark in the 1940s and ‘50s, working alongside her sister Heather -- as the McKean Sisters -- and created an enduring partnership in lif...

APRA Awards to honour country music legend Joy McKean, announce full lineup Plans for this month’s APRA Awards are ramping up, with the association announcing that country music matriarch Joy McKean OAM will be honoured on the night, and unveiling a host of live performances from new and established writers. McKean will be the second recipient of the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music in 2021, alongside the late Helen Reddy, who was announced earlier this year. Her 70-year career began with writing songs in her early teens, before performing, ...