Harvey Mason Jr. has been running the recording academy for two years, but he's been working

in music pretty much his entire life.

I read that you wrote your first song at the age of eight.

I did.

Yeah, I wrote some songs before that, but that was when my first song was actually published

and recorded by an artist, and I got a royalty, and I had no idea what a royalty was.

My parents put it in a bank account.

They let me buy like a model airplane or something like that.

Harvey went on to write and produce a lot of songs for some really big names, too.

Justin Timberlake, Aritha Franklin, Britney Spears.

What's your favorite song that you've ever worked on?

It's impossible.

It's not an answer I can even come close to giving.

I've done so many songs, and the one that I'm most proud of is the one I've done last.

Every time I do a song, I get excited, I go to sleep thinking about, I wake up thinking

about it.

This is my favorite song.

I love this.

But these days, Harvey's thinking about a lot more than just his songs.

As a CEO of the recording academy, he's responsible for the music industry's biggest award show,

The Grammys.

And the Grammys have been facing some big challenges.

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