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  RECORDING ACADEMY ®  TO HONOR MUSIC INDUSTRY ICONS WITH 2024 SPECIAL MERIT AWARDS DURING GRAMMY ®  WEEK THE RECORDING ACADEMY ® ’S SPECIAL MERIT AWARDS CEREMONY RETURNS TO THE WILSHIRE EBELL THEATRE ON SAT, FEB. 3 SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — The Recording Academy ® ’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony celebrating the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award, Technical GRAMMY ®  Award, and Best Song For Social Change Award recipients will return during GRAMMY ®  Week on Feb. 3, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.  Laurie Anderson, the Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer,  and  Tammy Wynette  are the 2024 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees;  Peter Asher, DJ Kool Herc  and  Joel Katz  are the Trustees Award recipients;  Tom Kobayashi  and  Tom Scott   are the Technical GRAMMY Award honorees; and  “Refugee,”  written by  K’naan, Steve McEwan , and  Gerald...

CBS and the Kennedy Center announced today THE 45 TH  ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS will air  Wednesday, Dec. 28  (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on demand on Paramount+.*   As previously announced, the Honorees include acclaimed actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian pop singer-songwriter Amy Grant; the legendary singer of soul, gospel, R&B and pop Gladys Knight; Cuban-born American composer, conductor and educator Tania León; and iconic Irish rock band U2, comprised of band members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.   In a star-studded celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage on Dec. 4, the 2022 Honorees will be saluted by today’s leading performers from New York, Hollywood and the arts capitals of the world, accepting the recognition and gratitude of their peers through performances and tributes.   The Honors recipients are recognized for their contributions to Amer...

  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of   five   Honorees who will receive the 45 th   Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.   The recipients to be honored at the annual national celebration of the arts in Washington, D.C., are: acclaimed actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian pop singer-songwriter Amy Grant; the legendary singer of soul, Gospel, R&B and pop Gladys Knight; Cuban-born American composer, conductor and educator Tania León; and iconic Irish rock band U2, comprised of band members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.   These artists will receive tributes during THE 45 TH  ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS, to be broadcast during the 2022-2023 television season on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.* CBS has broadcast the special each year since its debut 45 years ago.   The Kennedy Center a...

#SuperBowlGospel. . . GET YOUR PRAISE ON BEFORE THE SUPER BOWL WITH BET AND CENTRIC  ---------------  “THE SUPER BOWL GOSPEL CELEBRATION” ONE-HOUR SPECIAL TO AIR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015 AT 10:00 A.M.* ON BET AND 2:00 P.M.* ON CENTRIC  CO-HOSTED BY HOLLY ROBINSON PEETE AND RODNEY PEETE, STAR-STUDDED CONCERT WILL BE HEADLINED BY GRAMMY-WINNING LEGEND GLADYS KNIGHT  -------------- NEW EPISODES OF “BOBBY JONES GOSPEL” AT 9:00 A.M.* AND “LIFT EVERY VOICE” AT 11:00 A.M.* ROUND OUT THE 3-HOUR BLOCK OF GOSPEL PROGRAMMING ---------------  NEW YORK, NY (January 29, 2015) – BET Networks announced today that it will air a one-hour special from the “The Super Bowl Gospel Celebration” on Super Bowl Sunday, February 1, 2015. Co-hosted by actress Holly Robinson Peete and retired NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, the gospel musical special will premiere on BET at 10:00 a.m.* and on Centric at 2:00 p.m.*. The 16th annual concert event has become a Super Bowl we...

buzzz worthy. . . The world knows her as the lead singer of the Pips, a powerhouse solo act  and the "Empress of Soul." A lesser known fact about the legendary Gladys Knight is that she is  the favorite singer of BeBe Winans.  An even more obscure detail about Knight is that she is also a famous Mormon.  Knight converted to Mormonism in 1997 and when she did, she brought the sound of the Baptist church with her. “I have always loved Gospel music; that is my beginning,” she shares.  “My first time singing in public was in the youth choir at church. After we were baptized, all of the youth joined the Sunshine choir.  Since that time, Gospel music has been a part of my life.  I have always been singing Gospel music. ”   This month, the legendary soul singer  covers the affect becoming a Mormon has had on her career  in the latest issue of LDS Living magazine. In 2002 the Georgia born vocalist started sharing her take on sacr...