Steve Jobs Get Grammy Award

Apple founder Steve Jobs really is synonymous with technology. After introducing tablet PCs, iPad, Steve Jobs, who declared the commencement of post-PC era is also increasingly attach his name as an icon of technology. But Steve Jobs is also considered to have great merit in the music industry. Therefore, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Science will provide a Grammy Award.

Steve Jobs will be given the award “Trustees Award”, the prestigious music awards event in the United States, which will be held next February. Award is given, because Steve Jobs is considered instrumental in innovations that help “create products and technologies to transform the way of consuming music, TV, movies, and books.” Of course it’s all thanks to a number of products made by Apple.

But other than meritorious making tech products, Steve Jobs also made ​​a large contribution in the fight against piracy of digital music, with the iTunes Store. Currently, the iTunes Store has sold more than 16 billion songs since its launch on April 28, 2003, to alternative music lovers to enjoy music by downloading legally.

In addition, Steve Jobs always been known as a lover of music. As a teenager, Steve Jobs is familiar with the music of the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, to the heroes of his youth, Bob Dylan.