Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the body behind the Grammys), took the stage and eulogized the victims of the Nova Festival. Mason (55) said the following: "Tonight we cherish the world of music.
We are all, no matter where we are, united in a common musical experience. It brings us closer than anything else, and that is why music must be our safe place" Mason went on to list terrorist attacks that have occurred in the past decade at other music events: the 2015 Bataclan theater massacre in Paris.