{"id":90656,"date":"2025-10-22T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/90656\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:38:10","slug":"musicares-names-mariah-carey-its-2026-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/90656\/","title":{"rendered":"MusiCares names Mariah Carey its 2026 Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 MusiCares,<\/a> an organization that helps music professionals who need financial, personal or medical assistance, will honor Mariah Carey<\/a> as its 2026 Person of the Year.<\/p>\n

The organization announced Tuesday that it will honor the five-time Grammy Award winning artist for providing support to many different underserved communities. Those efforts include providing relief for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic as well as founding Camp Mariah to support underserved youth and advance health, education and social welfare.<\/p>\n

Carey will be honored at the\u200935th annual Person of the Year benefit gala\u2009at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Jan. 30, two nights before the 2025 Grammy Awards<\/a> are held at the adjacent Crypto.com Arena. <\/p>\n

The announcement arrives on heels of \u201c\u201cHere for It All,\u201d her first studio album in seven years, out last month. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think songwriting has definitely been my outlet for what I need when I\u2019m ever going through something,\u201d Carey told The Associated Press<\/a> in September. \u201cWhenever I\u2019m feeling like the need to express myself. It\u2019s definitely songwriting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMariah Carey\u2019s influence extends far beyond her remarkable artistry,\u201d MusiCares executive director Theresa Wolters said in a statement. \u201dHer work exemplifies the values at the heart of MusiCares: creating systems of care that lift people up and ensure music professionals and communities can thrive.”<\/p>\n

Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy and MusiCares, described Carey as \u201ca true creative force and once-in-a-generation talent,\u201d in a statement. “Her artistry and her voice have helped shape the sound of our times. We look forward to celebrating her remarkable career on this very special night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, MusiCares honored the Grateful Dead<\/a> as its 2025 Persons of the Year for their philanthropic efforts, their unique ability to foster community through concerts and for their impact on American music on their 60th anniversary. The year prior, Jon Bon Jovi was honored<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 MusiCares, an organization that helps music professionals who need financial, personal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61326,127,114,1128,146,122,52559,61325,85,46,409,34984,917],"class_list":["post-90656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-61326","tag-article","tag-business","tag-coronavirus","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-grammy-awards","tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-pandemics","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90656","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=90656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}