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- The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is a special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording."
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The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is a special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording."
YearRecipient2024Laurie Anderson, The Clark Sisters, ...2023Bobby McFerrin, Nirvana, Ma Rainey, Slick ...20222021Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, ...This Special Merit, The Lifetime Achievement Award, is presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers* who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.
Lifetime achievement awards are awarded by various organizations, to recognize contributions over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions. Such awards, and organizations presenting them, include:
Feb 3, 2024 · When the Recording Academy’s list of its 2024 lifetime achievement awardees was announced on Jan. 5, the name “Laurie Anderson” was most surprising to one of its recipients: Laurie Anderson.
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- James Ehnes Takes Home His First Grammy
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Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's second studio album, Clouds, earned the Canadian musician her first Grammy Award for best folk performance. That album would also go on to become Mitchell's first release to be certified gold in the U.S., peaking at No. 31 on the Billboard 200 charts. Mitchell has seven other Grammy Awards to her name, including a ...
Pop icon Céline Dion was a decade into her career by the time she scored her first Grammy nomination for her work on the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack (as well as her 1992 self-titled album). Her debut on the Grammy stage was a performance of the theme song for the Disney classic, alongside duet partner Peabo Bryson. Together, they won best pop p...
Superstar producer David Foster has 16 Grammy Awards to his name, and is tied with audio engineer Serban Ghenea as the Canadian with the most wins. While his first win was for Earth, Wind & Fire's "After the Love Has Gone" in 1980, Foster's biggest winning streak didn't hit until the '90s: he took home record and album of the year in 1992 for his w...
Alanis Morissette was nominated for a staggering six Grammys in 1996 and took home four awards: album of the year, best female rock vocal performance, best rock song and best rock album. To cap it all off, Morissette gave an incredible performance of her Jagged Little Pill hit, "You Oughta Know," accompanied by a string section.
This year will mark the 20th anniversary of Nelly Furtado's debut album, Whoa, Nelly!. This release not only put the Canadian singer-songwriter on the map, but it also earned Furtado her first and only Grammy Award for best female pop vocal performance. When her name was announced, Furtado got onstage for what she called a "highly unexpected" win. ...
Alberta's Indigenous drum and singing group Northern Cree has won numerous Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, Aboriginal Peoples' Music Choice Awards and Nammys (Native American Music Awards). But the one title that they're still missing is a coveted Grammy Award. Northern Cree has been zero for eight at the Grammys (their first nomination was in 20...
James Ehnes is the most decorated classical musician in Juno Awards history with 26 nominations and 11 wins, but his Grammy-winning record is equally impressive. While he's only been up for two awards, he is two for two, winning best instrumental soloist(s) performance (with orchestra) in 2007 for Barber/Korngold/Walton: Violin Concertos and again ...
Only six Canadians have received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: Oscar Peterson, Glenn Gould, the Band, Joni Mitchell, George Beverly Shea and Leonard Cohen. Cohen's 2010 win was actually his first Grammy Award ever, something that he noted in his acceptance speech: "I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by th...
Barbara Streisand's hesitant tone said it all: Arcade Fire's 2011 album of the year win for its third album, The Suburbs, was a complete surprise to everyone, including the Montreal band. "What the hell," leader Win Butler said immediately, after beating out fellow nominees Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Eminem and Lady Antebellum. The win sparked confusio...
In 2011, a fresh-faced Justin Bieber was up for two Grammy Awards: best pop vocal album for My World 2.0 and best new artist. Bieber ended up empty-handed that year, notably losing out on best new artist to "surprise winner," jazz musician Esperanza Spalding. But Bieber would nab another eight nominations in subsequent years (three of them were for...
Aug 9, 2023 · Here are the five artists who have received lifetime achievement awards from the Recording Academy and are members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Joni Mitchell Grammy wins: Nine plus a...
The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, instituted in 2012 during the 46th CMA Awards, is given by the Country Music Association. The presentation of the award is intended to "honor an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music (that) achieved both national and international prominence and stature ...
