Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is a special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording."^[1] This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers. The honor was established in 1962, with the first awarded recipient in 1963.

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded for	"performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording"
Country	United States
Presented by	The Recording Academy
First award	1963; 62 years ago (1963)
Website	grammy.com

Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

The following individuals have received Lifetime Achievement Awards, listed by year.

Year	Recipient	Ref.
1963	Bing Crosby
1965	Frank Sinatra
1966	Duke Ellington
1967	Ella Fitzgerald
1968	Irving Berlin
1971	Elvis Presley
1972	Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson
1984	Chuck Berry, Charlie Parker
1985	Leonard Bernstein
1986	Benny Goodman, The Rolling Stones, Andrés Segovia
1987	Roy Acuff, Benny Carter, Enrico Caruso, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Woody Herman, Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Isaac Stern, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Hank Williams
1989	Fred Astaire, Pablo Casals, Dizzy Gillespie, Jascha Heifetz, Lena Horne, Leontyne Price, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan
1990	Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, Paul McCartney
1991	Marian Anderson, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Kitty Wells
1992	James Brown, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters
1993	Chet Atkins, Little Richard, Thelonious Monk, Bill Monroe, Pete Seeger, Fats Waller
1994	Bill Evans, Aretha Franklin, Arthur Rubinstein
1995	Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, Henry Mancini, Curtis Mayfield, Barbra Streisand
1996	Dave Brubeck, Marvin Gaye, Georg Solti, Stevie Wonder
1997	Bobby "Blue" Bland, The Everly Brothers, Judy Garland, Stéphane Grappelli, Buddy Holly, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Frank Zappa
1998	Bo Diddley, The Mills Brothers, Roy Orbison, Paul Robeson
1999	Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Mel Tormé
2000	Harry Belafonte, Woody Guthrie, John Lee Hooker, Mitch Miller, Willie Nelson
2001	The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Marley, The Who
2002	Count Basie, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Al Green, Joni Mitchell
2003	Etta James, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Miller, Tito Puente, Simon & Garfunkel
2004	Van Cliburn, The Funk Brothers, Ella Jenkins, Sonny Rollins, Artie Shaw, Doc Watson
2005	Eddy Arnold, Art Blakey, The Carter Family, Morton Gould, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Perkins, The Staple Singers
2006	David Bowie, Cream, Merle Haggard, Robert Johnson, Jessye Norman, Richard Pryor, The Weavers
2007	Joan Baez, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Bob Wills
2008	Burt Bacharach, The Band, Cab Calloway, Doris Day, Itzhak Perlman, Max Roach, Earl Scruggs
2009	Gene Autry, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Four Tops, Hank Jones, Brenda Lee, Dean Martin, Tom Paxton
2010	Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, André Previn, Clark Terry
2011	Julie Andrews, Roy Haynes, Juilliard String Quartet, The Kingston Trio, Dolly Parton, Ramones, George Beverly Shea	[2]
2012	The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antônio Carlos Jobim, George Jones, The Memphis Horns, Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron
2013	Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page, Ravi Shankar, The Temptations	[3]
2014	The Beatles, Clifton Chenier, The Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, Maud Powell	[4]
2015	Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, Buddy Guy, George Harrison, Flaco Jiménez, The Louvin Brothers, Wayne Shorter	[5]
2016	Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Run-DMC	[6]
2017	Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, The Velvet Underground	[7]
2018	Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, The Meters, Queen, Tina Turner	[8]
2019	Black Sabbath, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, Sam & Dave, Dionne Warwick	[9]
2020	Chicago, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Iggy Pop, John Prine, Public Enemy, Sister Rosetta Tharpe	[10]
2021	Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, Talking Heads	[11]
2022	Bonnie Raitt	[12]
2023	Bobby McFerrin, Nirvana, Ma Rainey, Slick Rick, Nile Rodgers, The Supremes, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart	[13]
2024	Laurie Anderson, The Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette	[14]
2025	Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Prince, Roxanne Shante, Frankie Valli	[15]