U2, George Clooney, Gladys Knight among Kennedy Center honorees
nypost.com“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.
She singled out Grant’s music in particular as a different genre being represented in the honors this year.“We’ve had gospel before.
We’ve had plenty of R&B and soul. … We’ve had country music, but we haven’t necessarily had Amy Grant and Christian pop in the same way,” she said, comparing Grant’s inclusion to the center’s honoring of LL Cool J in 2017, the first time the honorees included a hip-hop artist.This is the 45th year of the honors, which will include a gala performance Dec.
4 in Washington featuring top entertainers. The show will be broadcast on CBS at a later date.Rutter said the honor is “not about one work that happens to be popular this year.
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