Fela Kuti, Whitney Houston, and Paul Simon are amongst these set to obtain Lifetime Achievement Awards on the 2026 Grammys, the Recording Academy introduced at this time. Cher, Carlos Santana, and Chaka Khan will spherical out the honorees. Bernie Taupin, Eddie Palmieri, and Sylvia Rhone have been named as subsequent yr’s Trustees Award winners, and the Technical Grammy will go to John Chowning, who found frequency modulation (FM) synthesis in 1967.
The Grammys’s Particular Advantage Awards Ceremony—the place the awards, many posthumous, will likely be handed out—takes place the day earlier than the primary occasion, on Saturday, January 31, The 2026 Grammy Awards air dwell from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Area on February 1. Final yr’s Lifetime Achievement honorees have been Prince, the Conflict, Frankie Beverly, Roxanne Shanté, Frankie Valli, Dr. Bobby Jones, and Taj Mahal.
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