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Past Kennedy Center Honors Winners

Date: 12/05/2022Author: Words, Music, and News 0 Comments

On December 4, 2022, the Kennedy Center held their 45^th annual Honors celebrating the lifetime artistic achievements of rockers U2, R&B star Gladys Knight, actor George Clooney, composer and conductor Tania Leon, and Christian music singer Amy Grant.

The gala event that saw numerous stars paying homage to the honourees, will be edited down to two hours for a television broadcast on December 28.

The Kennedy Center Honors awards its honourees for a lifetime of “extraordinary talents” and while there are some names missing from the list including Liza Minelli, and Denzel Washington; the list over the past 45 years is an impressive one…

Previous Kennedy Center Honors recipients:
Justino Diaz
Berry Gordy

Joan Baez

Earth, Wind & Fire (musical group; Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson)

Linda Ronstadt
“Sesame Street”
Michael Tilson Thomas

“Hamilton” co-creators: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler, and Alex Lacamoire

Carmen de Lavallade

Martha Argerich

Patricia McBride

Shirley MacLaine

David Letterman

Natalia Makarova

Sir Paul McCartney

Bruce Springsteen

Barbra Streisand

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who

Martin Scorsese

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Smokey Robinson

Steven Spielberg

Suzanne Farrell

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

Joan Sutherland

James Earl Jones

Elizabeth Taylor

Luciano Pavarotti

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Plácido Domingo

Angela Lansbury

Fred Ebb & John Kander

Shirley Temple Black

Charlton Heston

Edward Villella

Maria Tallchief

Jacques d’Amboise

Riley B.B. King

Aretha Franklin

Arthur Mitchell

Stephen Sondheim

Marion Williams

Joanne Woodward

Mstislav Rostropovich

Fayard Nicholas

Harold Nicholas

Dizzy Gillespie

Katharine Hepburn

Harry Belafonte

Claudette Colbert

Alexandra Danilova

Mary Martin
William Schuman

Alexander Schneider

Roger L. Stevens

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Nathan Milstein

Merce Cunningham

Alan Jay Lerner

Frederick Loewe

Gian Carlo Menotti

Katherine Dunham

Elia Kazan
Frank Sinatra

Leonard Bernstein

Ella Fitzgerald

Tennessee Williams

Marian Anderson

George Balanchine

Richard Rodgers

Arthur Rubinstein

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