SAN DIEGO — Harvey Mason Jr. is not the first CEO of the Recording Academy, under whose auspices the Grammy Awards are presented, who is also a musician and a Grammy nominee. But he is the only one who has been nominated five times for a Grammy — as a producer and a songwriter —which makes him uniquely qualified to know what it is like to be in the audience during a Grammy Awards telecast, waiting and hoping for a win. “It was a thrill to be in that room,” said Mason, who will address the audience during Sunday’s Grammy Awards telecast and online-only pre-telecast. “I know people say that to b…
