Music duo, Gladstone Grant and Vernon Buckley, more popularly known as the Maytones will finally get their due, with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Temperature Entertainment Limited, at the Clarendon Music Awards' third anniversary celebration this Saturday in May Pen, Clarendon.

Buckley and Grant, who will be honoured in recognition of over five decades of contribution to Jamaica's music, grew up in Effortville, Clarendon, and began singing while still in their teens and later formed The Maytones. The veteran crooners recorded their first hit for record producer, Alvin Ringling's GG Records in the 1960s and together the group produced five albums and a number of singles for the label.

Grant, who still lives in Effortville, was at a loss for words when The STAR sat down with him for an interview regarding the lifetime achievement award that will be presented to him on the weekend. His singing partner (Buckley) resides in Canada.

"It's a great feeling and the recognition is a long time in coming, doing something for more than 50 years and to finally get some recognition makes you feel good my brother," said the Clarendon-based Maytones' singer as he recounted the Maytones' fifty years musical journey that took the duo to Canada, Europe, the United States and in the Caribbean.

"After all these years of touring, performing and recording music, a lifetime achievement award from the music industry is more than appreciated," said Grant, who joined Buckley in Canada last month for a Valentine's Day performance in Ontario.

The Clarendon Music Awards, which has now revamped its awards format to include other Clarendon-based players in the music industry, will this year also honour barbers, hair dressers, fashion designers, who dress and groom industry players in Clarendon. The awards' third anniversary will also be displayed in "party format," but will maintain its red-carpet appeal.

"We have broadened the scope of the awards to include other persons who are essential to the music industry in Clarendon and Jamaica. This year we are honouring barbers, fashion designers, hair dressers, nail technicians and other people who dress and groom the persons in the industry," said Temperature Entertainment Limited's, Chief Executive Officer, David Anderson.

Anderson said that the awards ceremony will honour its core awardees, singers, dancers, selectors, promoters and roll out the red carpet and give patrons a memorable evening of music in Clarendon.