Fela Kuti, Whitney Houston, and Paul Simon are amongst these set to obtain Lifetime Achievement Awards on the 2026 Grammys, the Recording Academy introduced right this moment. Cher, Carlos Santana, and Chaka Khan will spherical out the honorees. Bernie Taupin, Eddie Palmieri, and Sylvia Rhone have been named as subsequent 12 months’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 Benefit Awards Ceremony—the place the awards, many posthumous, can be handed out—takes place the day earlier than the primary occasion, on Saturday, January 31, The 2026 Grammy Awards air stay from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Area on February 1. Final 12 months’s Lifetime Achievement honorees had been Prince, the Conflict, Frankie Beverly, Roxanne Shanté, Frankie Valli, Dr. Bobby Jones, and Taj Mahal.
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