Published Outstanding Music Direction - 2022. I am incredibly humbled to join such a prestigious family of artists, and deeply grateful to the Kennedy Center for bestowing me with this incredible honor., In December 1980, we made our first trip across the Atlantic to America. Eric Clapton Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special - 2014. Step Three: Make Sure to RSVP. 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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About In-flight Entertainment, Warner Bros. Discoverys licensing chief on how movies and TV get on planes, editing decisions, and the curious case of, Sam Richardson Is Happy That the Kids Are Finding. The expanded two-day event includes Ari Lennox and GloRilla. I stand here with my fans, my family, my friends, my team, and my faith in accepting such an amazing distinction. Sean Penn called U2 one of the most poignant and consistently relevant bands in history, then segued into a video tribute to The Joshua Tree quartet in which Beyonc, Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, and Finneas spoke the lyrics to some of their best-known songs, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride (In the Name of Love) and Beautiful Day among them. Deborah F. Rutter, Kennedy Center president, noted: For nearly a half-century, the Kennedy Center Honors has represented the very best of Americas creative culture. I cannot wait to celebrate with my fellow honorees, friends, and family. With George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania Leon. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google, Visit Billboard Pro for music business news, Indian Singers to Perform Naatu Naatu on 2023Oscars, Paul Williams and Pilar McCurry to Be Honored at 2023 Guild of Music SupervisorsAwards, Volker Bertelmann, Carter Burwell Among Nominees for 2023 ASCAP Composers Choice Awards (FullList). Director of Meetings and Events at Americans for the Arts. Done+Dusted will produce the show in association with ROK Productions, represented by Elizabeth Kelly, who will executive produce alongside David Jammy and Ian Stewart. Theyre listed in alphabetical order. The Kennedy Center Honors provide recognition to living individuals who throughout their lifetimes have made significant contributions to American culture through the performing arts. All events and artists subject to change without prior notice. After years off the road, it would have been swell to see U2 back together in performance for even one number, especially in tandem with another artist (imagine the Bono/Brandi possibilities!). In other recent years, we offered a similar special photo gallery and have been very happy to see several of our suggestions be honored. With a majority of the honorees representing music as a discipline, the night was filled with song. George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight among 2022 Kennedy Center honorees. Everybody wants to know: What do you think? I received a congratulatory email today. We have a nice life, he said, an apparent and diplomatic no.. He has never stopped surprising me, never stopped learning. Standing on a stage lit by a massive sign reading Gladys, LaBelle called Knight her everything, saying they had been friends for six decades and had seen each other through laughter and tears. Kudos, anyway, to CBS for keeping all the anti-antisemitism stuff in (even if they probably would have taken hell for cutting it after Cohens routine was so widely reported). Grant has won six Grammys all in the gospel field. At the same time, the annual addition of new names to the roster of Honors recipients charts the international standard of excellence set by Americas artists, as well as the aesthetic inspiration provided by artists of other nations who have achieved prominence on these shores. This level of distinction is important. On the heels of last weeks excellent pre-Christmas Paul Simon tribute special, CBS is back on Wednesday night with The 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, offering a beautiful illusion of D.C. as a functional city in which scrappy rockers, gospel singers and mezzo sopranos can reach across the aisle, just like their political counterparts, and we really are a civilized nation united by, among so many other things, our shared appreciation for the arts. WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 21: Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Dick Van Dyke, Garth Brooks and Midori Got pose during the 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on May 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Thats why Im a CPA as well, she said on the red carpet prior to the ceremony. I tore up my speech, the elder Clooney said. But it was the combination of Sing Your Praise to the Lord and El Shaddai that exemplified the touchstones of a career balanced in pop and Christianity as BeBe and CeCe Winans, backed by Grants lifetime musical partner, Michael W. Smith, on piano and the Howard University Gospel Choir, alternately skyrocketed and calmed. Brian Wilson was honored rather The Beach Boys, for example. But they have never inducted a solo artist posthumously, so Michael Jackson, Prince and Whitney Houston, among many others, appear to be out of luck. Keep Exploring The complete list of guest performers is kept secret until the show is in progress, keeping both the Honorees and the nation on the edge of their seats. 19! Biden andfirst lady Jill Bidentook their customary place in the presidential box inside the grand Kennedy Center Opera House, alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff. It would have been the dream of all dreams. The 2022 Kennedy Center Honors honorees included George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight, composer Tania Len and Amy Grantand the stars came out to celebrate. Copyright 1990-2023. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday that the Irish rock band along with actor George Clooney, singers Gladys Knight and Amy Grant and composer Tania Len are. Rod Stewart Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond. These veteran artists were honored Sunday, December 4, in Washington, D.C.. CBS and Paramount+ will air the ceremony tonight on Wednesday, December 28.Clooney is an Oscar-winning producer and actor who first gained fame on the medical drama series E.R. Grant is a legendary contemporary Christian and pop singer. The Isley Brothers So this is kind of amazing: George Clooney was among the honorees at tonights Kennedy Center Honors, so Julia Roberts wore a custom Moschino gown adorned with framed photos of George Clooney. And then there are the four boys from U2 Bono, the Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., and Adam Clayton who started a punk band in high school, when they could barely play their instruments, and went on to become one of the most significant rock artists of the modern era. Richard Kind, a friend of Clooneys since the pair starred in a failed sitcom pilot 30 years ago, jested thatthere is not one bottle of Casamigos on this set referencing the tequila line co-founded by Clooney in 2013. Of the 2021 selections, Gordy and Midler had been championed here. A subdued but focused Penn praised their sonic landscapes and called them the most consistently relevant band in history.. pic.twitter.com/3IEQ53oEkv. The Kennedy Center Honors selections for 2022 are George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania Len and U2. Privacy Policy and On Tuesday, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) was re-elected to a full six-year term, defeating Republican challenger Herschel Walker despite the latter's embrace of "culture war" issues and anti . I am incredibly humbled to join such a prestigious family of artists, and deeply grateful to the Kennedy Center for bestowing me with this incredible honor. Tania Len, In December 1980, we made our first trip across the Atlantic to America. The recipients of one of the United States' most prestigious cultural awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, have been announced for 2022. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually honors a select group of people for their artistic influences on American culture. Th Kennedy Center Honorees:U2, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, George Clooney, and Tania Leon. Gail Schuman #KennedyCenterHonors pic.twitter.com/JmFjN4graC. Your culture and entertainment cheat-sheet. All Rights Reserved. She also instituted the Brooklyn Philharmonic Community Concert Series and in 2021 received the Pulitzer Prize for her work Stride, inspired by womens rights champion Susan B. Anthony. Kennedy Center Concert Hall: 6/10/22: Channel 21 broadcast of the CAPPIES GALA: 7:00 - 9:30pm . The Kennedy Centers commitment to the arts is unparalleled and I am so very grateful for this moment., Little did I imagine when studying in La Habana that life was going to grace me with such a distinction! The Kennedy Center Retweeted. Clooneys father, Nick, 88, his TV anchorman voice still resonant, shared his pride in his son. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Chris Beachum Film April 5, 2022 9:00AM +45 More SEE , , 9. All rights reserved. Knight usually with her backup singers, The Pips has recorded dozens of albums with such classic hits as I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Midnight Train to Georgia. The challenge of singing that classic in front of the woman who made it famous fell to country music superstar Garth Brooks, who is a Kennedy Center honoree in his own right. Thank you for showing us the power of the arts and We the People, Biden said. My first thoughts went to my ancestors: they believed in my dreams, and what we lacked in material wealth, they made up for in spirit, encouragement, and support. Broadcast television is enough of a no-mans-land right around the holidays that some old-school celebrate-the-arts programming manages to sneak in, offering the sight of very classy people in their tuxes for the benefit of those of us who havent gotten out of our pajamas in a couple of days. Garth Brooks, Joan Baez, violinist Midori, Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Allen are this years honorees. Kennedy Center Honors: Music-centric tributes hit all the right notes. Ken Ham, a noted creationist and founder of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum, said results of the USA Today polling shows the triumph of a "biblical worldview" over secularism. The couple received a standing ovation from the crowd. Pearl Jams Eddie Vedder sang U2s Elevation and One. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen brought his alter ego Borat to the stage as part of the U2 tribute, pretending to mistake Biden for former President Donald Trump. He didn't play "O Canada," though two of the five nominees (Mitchell and Michaels) were from north of the border. The primary criterion is excellence, and artistic achievement in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures, and television is considered. Nominee: The Kennedy Center Honors. And it turned out to be true, yet again. 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