{"id":193391,"date":"2025-12-19T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/193391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:00:08","slug":"fela-kuti-whitney-houston-paul-simon-and-more-to-receive-2026-lifetime-achievement-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/193391\/","title":{"rendered":"Fela Kuti, Whitney Houston, Paul Simon, and More to Receive 2026 Lifetime Achievement Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2346-fela-kuti\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fela Kuti<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/22529-whitney-houston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitney Houston<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4158-paul-simon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Simon<\/a> are among those set to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 2026 Grammys, the Recording Academy announced today. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/15996-cher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cher<\/a>, Carlos Santana, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/12486-chaka-khan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaka Khan<\/a> will round out the honorees. Bernie Taupin, Eddie Palmieri, and Sylvia Rhone have been named as next year\u2019s Trustees Award winners, and the Technical Grammy will go to John Chowning, who discovered frequency modulation (FM) synthesis in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammys\u2019s Special Merit Awards Ceremony\u2014where the awards, many posthumous, will be handed out\u2014takes place the day before the main event, on Saturday, January 31, The 2026 Grammy Awards air live from Los Angeles\u2019 Crypto.com Arena on February 1. Last year\u2019s Lifetime Achievement <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/prince-the-clash-frankie-beverly-and-more-to-receive-2025-lifetime-achievement-grammys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">honorees<\/a> were Prince, the Clash, Frankie Beverly, Roxanne Shant\u00e9, Frankie Valli, Dr. Bobby Jones, and Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/tags\/grammys2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow along with all of Pitchfork\u2019s coverage of the 2026 Grammy Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedImageLink-eELFBx deqABF jfBpVC fyUolD XqBtt content-card-embed__image\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedImage\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/takeaways-from-the-2026-grammy-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"article image\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2x1%20(1).jpg\"\/><\/a><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedHedLink-kqBDz deqABF kxtjOE gJzqjx hEvJqU content-card-embed__hed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/takeaways-from-the-2026-grammy-nominations\/\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedHedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 Takeaways From the 2026 Grammy Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fela Kuti, Whitney Houston, and Paul Simon are among those set to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2701,146,61742,85,46,409,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-193391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-award","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grammys2026","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}