Swayvo Twain, the son of late R&B vocalists D’Angelo and Angie Stone, says he was not invited to this year’s Grammy Awards, where there will be a tribute performance for his father.
Twain, real name Michael Eugene Archer II, spoke to The Breakfast Club co-host Loren Larosa and said he was not extended an invitation to the 68th Annual Grammy Awards set to be held on Sunday, Feb. 1.
D’Angelo, who won four Grammys in his lifetime, died last October at 51 years old after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Speaking to Larosa, Twain expressed “gratitude” to The Recording Academy for “honoring my father’s legacy on one of the biggest nights in music.”
“It would have been a pleasure to attend but unfortunately my siblings and I haven’t received an invitation to be a part of the moment celebrating our parents’ lives and work,” he continued.
In an update, Lorosa shared that Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. was looking for Twain’s contact information and intended to invite him to the ceremony.
Along with Twain, 28, D’Angelo had two younger children, Imani Archer, 26, and Morocco, 15, from two later relationships.
A representative from the Recording Academy said that Imani and D’Angelo’s brother, Luther, were invited to this year’s ceremony, possibly meaning there was a miscommunication between the family.
Just months before D’Angelo’s passing, Twain’s mother, singer Angie Stone, died after a car accident in Montgomery, Alabama, following a performance in Mobile. The vocalist was 63 years old.
In December, Twain appeared on The Breakfast Club and recalled spending a week with D’Angelo after Stone’s passing and expressed that he knew it would be the last time he saw his father.
“We was just just talking and laughing and listening to music,” Twain said around the 11-minute mark below. “I ain’t really wanted him to see me sad or nothing like that.”