Overview

• Kaye posted on Facebook on June 18 that she will not attend the Nov. 8 induction ceremony at Los Angeles’s Peacock Theater.
• She criticized the “Wrecking Crew” name as a “terrible insulting” label that misrepresents the collective contributions of studio musicians.
• Kaye is receiving the Musical Excellence Award in recognition of her bass work on an estimated 10,000 recordings from the 1960s onward.
• Her career began as a jazz guitarist in the 1950s before she transitioned to bass and worked with the Beach Boys, Phil Spector and Frank Sinatra.
• The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame plans to include her among the 2025 inductees in absentia alongside acts such as Cyndi Lauper and OutKast.