The Recording Academy announced yesterday the winners of its Special Merit Grammy Awards, where Steve Jobs will be receiving a 2012 Trustees Award. The award was created to recognize people who have contributed to music in forms other than performing it. 

As former CEO and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs* helped create products and technology that transformed the way we consume music, TV, movies, and books. A creative visionary, Jobs' innovations such as the iPod and its counterpart, the online iTunes store, revolutionized the industry and how music was distributed and purchased. In 2002 Apple Computer Inc. was a recipient of a Technical GRAMMY Award for contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field. The company continues to lead the way with new technology and in-demand products such as the iPhone and iPad

An invite-only ceremony will be held on February 11, 2012 and an official announcement will be made the next day during the 54th annual Grammy Awards. 

Jobs passed away this past October following a battle with pancreatic cancer.