It's going to be a Beautiful Day for the band U2 and four other artists when they receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors in December.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 Cuban-American composer Tania León are being honored this year.The center generally honors five people annually for influencing American culture through the arts.
But bands and other groups sometimes get honors, too. He made it: George Clooney will be one of the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors this year in December; seen in June in AustriaDisco-funk band Earth, Wind & Fire was the most recent, in 2019, the year the long-running children's TV show Sesame Street was honored.The Eagles were honored in 2016 and Led Zeppelin in 2012.
Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said in an interview that her group has 'worked really hard to think about "Are we including all of the performing arts?"' as it hands out its awards.
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