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2005 Kennedy Center Honorees: Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell and Tony Bennett with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, in the Blue Room at the White House, December 4, 2005. 2006 Kennedy Center Honorees: Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and Zubin Mehta with ...
December 2nd, in front of a crowded room of admirers and the President of the United States, funny-man David Letterman, the rock band Led Zeppelin, including John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert ...
Pages in category "Kennedy Center honorees" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 250 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
On December 2, 2012, Guy was awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. [41] At his induction, Kennedy Center chairman David Rubenstein said, "Buddy Guy is a titan of the blues and has been a tremendous influence on virtually everyone who has picked up an electric guitar in the last half century". [42]
As an adult performer, Raitt experienced the other side of the Kennedy Center Honors equation: performing as part of tributes to Mavis Staples in 2016 and Buddy Guy in 2012. These performances are ...
Coppola received a tribute filled with previous Kennedy Center honorees, including Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino and George Lucas. All described an iconoclastic and driven auteur who ...
Bill Cosby accepted his award at the Kennedy Center in 2009. He had twice refused the award, stating that he was disappointed with the profanity used in the inaugural ceremony honoring Richard Pryor. [11] After Cosby was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, the Center stripped Cosby of his award and his 1998 Kennedy Center Honors. [12]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Performers such as Gladys Knight or the Irish band U2 usually would be headlining a concert for The post Gladys Knight, Tania León among Kennedy Center honorees appeared first ...