On February 12th, Cheryl L. Keyes won an NAACP Image Award in the category of “Outstanding World Music Album” for her debut CD, Let Me Take You There (Keycan Records 2008). Keyes is a composer-arranger, pianist-flutist-vocalist, and associate professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. The University of Illinois Press published Keyes’s Rap Music and Street Consciousness, which received a Choice award for outstanding academic books in 2004. Keyes has also contributed articles to several UIP journals, including Black Music Research Journal and Ethnomusicology.

Congratulations on your award, Professor Keyes!