Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

In addition to the Grammy Awards , which are very well known to the public, the Recording Academy also awards a significantly smaller number of Lifetime Achievement Awards , with which the life's works of outstanding musicians of all genres and styles are recognized.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was first presented in 1965. In most cases, the award is given to individuals, occasionally duos and groups. In addition to interpreters, composers, conductors and producers are also taken into account. The Lifetime Achievement Award is also awarded posthumously . The following personalities received this coveted award:

Award winners

year	image	Artist	Life dates	nationality
1965		Bing Crosby	1903-1977	United States
		Frank Sinatra	1915-1998	United States
1966		Duke Ellington	1899-1974	United States
1967		Ella Fitzgerald	1917-1976	United States
1968		Irving Berlin	1888-1989	United States
1971		Elvis Presley	1935-1977	United States
1972		Louis Armstrong	1901-1971	United States
		Mahalia Jackson	1911-1972	United States
1984		Chuck Berry	1926-2017	United States
		Charlie Parker	1920-1955	United States
1985		Leonard Bernstein	1918-1990	United States
1986		Benny Goodman	1909-1986	United States
		The Rolling Stones	founded in 1962	United Kingdom
		Andrés Segovia	1893-1987	Spain
1987		Roy Acuff	1903-1992	United States
		Benny Carter	1907-2003	United States
		Enrico Caruso	1873-1921	Italy
		Ray Charles	1930-2004	United States
		Fats dominoes	1928-2017	United States
		Woody Herman	1913-1987	United States
		Billie Holiday	1915-1959	United States
		BB King	1925-2015	United States
		Isaac Stern	1920-2001	United States
		Igor Stravinsky	1882-1971	Russia France United States
		Arturo Toscanini	1867-1957	Italy
		Hank Williams	1923-1953	United States
1989		Fred Astaire	1899-1987	United States
		Pablo Casals	1876-1973	Spain
		Dizzy Gillespie	1917-1993	United States
		Jascha Heifetz	1901-1987	Lithuania United States
		Lena Horne	1917-2010	United States
		Leontyne Price	born in 1927	United States
		Bessie Smith	1894-1937	United States
		Art Tatum	1909-1956	United States
		Sarah Vaughan	1924-1990	United States
1990		Nat King Cole	1919-1965	United States
		Miles Davis	1926-1991	United States
		Vladimir Horowitz	1903-1989	United States
		Paul McCartney	born in 1942	United Kingdom
1991		Marian Anderson	1897-1993	United States
		Bob Dylan	born in 1941	United States
		John Lennon	1940-1980	United Kingdom
		Kitty Wells	1919-2012	United States
1992		James Brown	1933-2006	United States
		John Coltrane	1926-1967	United States
		Jimi Hendrix	1942-1970	United States
		Muddy Waters	1913-1983	United States
1993		Chet Atkins	1924-2001	United States
		Little Richard	born in 1932	United States
		Thelonious Monk	1917-1982	United States
		Bill Monroe	1911-1996	United States
		Pete Seeger	1919-2014	United States
		Fats Waller	1904-1943	United States
1994		Bill Evans	1929-1980	United States
		Aretha Franklin	1942-2018	United States
		Arthur Rubinstein	1887-1982	Poland
1995		Patsy Cline	1932-1963	United States
		Peggy Lee	1920-2002	United States
		Henry Mancini	1924-1994	United States
		Curtis Mayfield	1942-1999	United States
		Barbra Streisand	born in 1942	United States
1996		Dave Brubeck	1920-2012	United States
		Marvin Gaye	1939-1984	United States
		Georg Solti	1912-1997	Hungary United Kingdom
		Stevie Wonder	born in 1950	United States
1997		Bobby "Blue" Bland	1930-2013	United States
		Everly Brothers	founded around 1957	United States
		Judy Garland	1922-1969	United States
		Stéphane Grappelli	1908-1997	France
		Buddy Holly	1936-1959	United States
		Charles Mingus	1922-1979	United States
		Oscar Peterson	1925-2007	Canada
		Frank Zappa	1940-1993	United States
1998		Bo Diddley	1928-2008	United States
		The Mills Brothers	founded in 1928	United States
		Roy Orbison	1936-1988	United States
		Paul Robeson	1898-1976	United States
1999		Johnny Cash	1932-2003	United States
		Sam Cooke	1931-1964	United States
		Otis Redding	1941-1967	United States
		Smokey Robinson	born in 1940	United States
		Mel Tormé	1925-1999	United States
2000		Harry Belafonte	born in 1927	United States
		Woody Guthrie	1912-1967	United States
		John Lee Hooker	1917-2001	United States
		Mitch Miller	1911-2010	United States
		Willie Nelson	born 1933	United States
2001		Tony Bennett	born in 1926	United States
		The Beach Boys	founded in 1961	United States
		Sammy Davis, Jr.	1925-1990	United States
		Bob Marley	1945-1981	Jamaica
		The Who	founded in 1964	United Kingdom
2002		Count Basie	1904-1984	United States
		Rosemary Clooney	1928-2002	United States
		Perry Como	1912-2001	United States
		Al Green	born in 1946	United States
		Joni Mitchell	born in 1943	Canada
2003		Etta James	1938-2012	United States
		Johnny Mathis	born in 1935	United States
		Glenn Miller	1904-1944	United States
		Tito Puente	1923-2000	United States
		Simon and Garfunkel	founded in 1957	United States
2004		Van Cliburn	1934-2013	United States
		The Funk Brothers	founded in 1959	United States
		Ella Jenkins	born in 1924	United States
		Sonny Rollins	born in 1930	United States
		Artie Shaw	1910-2004	United States
		Doc Watson	1923-2012	United States
2005		Eddy Arnold	1918-2008	United States
		Kind of Blakey	1919-1990	United States
		The Carter Family	founded in 1927	United States
		Morton Gould	1913-1996	United States
		Janis Joplin	1943-1970	United States
		Led Zeppelin	founded in 1968	United Kingdom
		Jerry Lee Lewis	born in 1935	United States
		Jelly Roll Morton	1885-1941	United States
		Pinetop Perkins	1913-2011	United States
		The Staple Singers	founded in 1951	United States
2006		David Bowie	1947-2016	United Kingdom
		Cream	founded in 1966	United Kingdom
		Merle Haggard	1937-2016	United States
		Robert Johnson	1911-1938	United States
		Jessye Norman	1945-2019	United States
		Richard Pryor	1940-2005	United States
		The Weavers	founded in 1948	United States
		Queen Esther Marrow	born in 1941	United States
2007		Joan Baez	born in 1941	United States
		Booker T. & the MG's	founded in 1962	United States
		Maria Callas	1923-1977	Greece
		Ornette Coleman	1930-2015	United States
		The Doors	founded in 1965	United States
		Grateful Dead	founded in 1965	United States
		Bob Wills	1905-1975	United States
2008		Burt Bacharach	born in 1928	United States
		The band	founded in 1967	United States
		Cab Calloway	1907-1994	United States
		Doris Day	born in 1922	United States
		Itzhak Perlman	born in 1945	Israel
		Max Roach	1924-2007	United States
		Earl Scruggs	1924-2012	United States
2009		Gene Autry	1907-1998	United States
		The Blind Boys of Alabama	founded in 1939	United States
		The Four Tops	founded in 1939	United States
		Hank Jones	1918-2010	United States
		Brenda Lee	born in 1944	United States
		Dean Martin	1917-1995	United States
		Tom Paxton	born in 1937	United States
2010		Leonard Cohen	1934-2016	Canada
		Bobby in it	1936-1973	United States
		David Honeyboy Edwards	1915-2011	United States
		Michael Jackson	1958-2009	United States
		Loretta Lynn	born in 1932	United States
		André Previn	born 1929	Germany United States
		Clark Terry	1920-2015	United States
2011		Ramones	founded in 1974	United States
		Julie Andrews	born in 1935	United States
		Dolly Parton	born in 1946	United States
		Roy Haynes	born in 1925	United States
		Juilliard String Quartet	founded in 1947	United States
		George Beverly Shea	1909-2013	Canada
		The Kingston Trio	founded in 1957	United States
2012		Allman Brothers Band	founded in 1969	United States
		Glen Campbell	1936-2017	United States
		Antonio Carlos Jobim	1927-1994	Brazil
		George Jones	1931-2013	United States
		The Memphis Horns	founded in 1967	United States
		Diana Ross	born in 1944	United States
		Gil Scott-Heron	1949-2011	United States
2013		Glenn Gould	1932-1982	Canada
		Charlie Haden	1937-2014	United States
		Lightnin 'Hopkins	1912-1982	United States
		Carole King	born in 1942	United States
		Patti Page	1927-2013	United States
		Ravi Shankar	1920-2012	India
		The Temptations	founded in 1960	United States
2014		The Beatles	1960-1970	United Kingdom
		Clifton Chenier	1925-1987	United States
		The Isley Brothers	since 1956	United Kingdom
		power plant	since 1970	Germany
		Kris Kristofferson	born in 1936	United States
		Maud Powell	1867-1920	United States
		Armando Manzanero	born in 1935	Mexico
2015		Bee Gees	1958-2012	Australia / United Kingdom
		Pierre Boulez	1925-2016	France
		Buddy guy	born in 1936	United States
		George Harrison	1943-2001	United Kingdom
		Flaco Jiménez	born in 1939	United States
		Louvin Brothers	1951-1963	United States
		Wayne Shorter	born 1933	United States
2016		Ruth Brown	1928-2006	United States
		Celia Cruz	1925-2003	Cuba
		Earth, Wind & Fire	founded in 1969	United States
		Herbie Hancock	born in 1940	United States
		Jefferson Airplane	1965-1996	United States
		Linda Ronstadt	born in 1946	United States
		Run DMC	1982-2002	United States
2017		Shirley Caesar	born in 1938	United States
		Ahmad Jamal	born in 1930	United States
		Charley Pride	born in 1938	United States
		Jimmie Rodgers	1897-1933	United States
		Nina Simone	1933-2003	United States
		Sly Stone	born in 1943	United States
		Velvet Underground	1964-1993	United States
2018		Hal Blaine	1929-2019	United States
		Neil Diamond	born in 1941	United States
		Emmylou Harris	born in 1947	United States
		Louis Jordan	1908-1975	United States
		The meters	founded in 1965	United States
		Queen	founded in 1970	United Kingdom
		Tina Turner	born in 1939	Switzerland
2019		Black Sabbath	1969-2017	United Kingdom
		George Clinton & Parliament - Funkadelic	born in 1941	United States
		Billy Eckstine	1914-1993	United States
		Donny Hathaway	1945-1979	United States
		Julio Iglesias	born in 1943	Spain
		Sam & Dave	1961-1981	United States
		Dionne Warwick	born in 1940	United States

Web links

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