Today, multi-GRAMMY award winning and multi-genre traversing legend Taj Mahal announced he will celebrate his 80th birthday with the GRAMMY Museum, who will host an intimate conversation moderated by Scott Goldman on Thursday, June 16. The conversation will explore his incredible career and new music including the critically acclaimed recent album release Get On Board featuring Taj Mahal alongside former Rising Sons band mate, Ry Cooder. The event will also feature a live performance by Taj Mahal. 
 
Living History Live is presented by Iron Mountain Entertainment Services. American Express Early Access on sale 5/19 at 10:30 a.m. PT. General tickets on sale: 5/21 at 12 p.m. PT. For tickets and further information please visit: https://grammymuseum.org/  
 
Taj Mahal has found the blues in sounds across the entire global sonic landscape. A brilliant artist with a musicologist’s mind, Taj has pursued and elevated the roots of beloved sounds with boundless devotion and skill. He has traced origins to the American South, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, and has created entirely new sounds, over and over again. 
 
As a result, he’s not only an icon to rock-and-roll legends such as The Rolling Stones, but also a hero to ambitious artists, who are determined to combine sounds that have been mistakenly ostracized from one another. No one is as simultaneously traditional and avant-garde as Taj Mahal.