Een Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is een onderscheiding van de National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences die jaarlijks wordt toegekend aan artiesten die tijdens hun leven een buitengewoon creatieve bijdrage hebben geleverd aan de platenindustrie.
Winnaars 1962 Bing Crosby 1965 Frank Sinatra 1966 Duke Ellington 1967 Ella Fitzgerald 1968 Irving Berlin 1971 Elvis Presley 1972 Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson 1981 Fred Astaire 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 sr. 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 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, 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, 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 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 2012 The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antônio Carlos Jobim, George Jones, The Memphis Horns, Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron 2013 Ravi Shankar, The Temptations, Carole King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Patti Page, Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden 2014 The Beatles, Clifton Chenier, The Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, Maud Powell 2015 Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, Flaco Jiménez, George Harrison, The Louvin Brothers, Buddy Guy, Wayne Shorter 2016 Ruth Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Run-D.M.C., Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock 2017 Jimmie Rodgers, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, The Velvet Underground, Shirley Caesar 2018 Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, Queen, Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, The Meters, Tina Turner 2019 Black Sabbath, Billy Eckstine, Julio Iglesias, Dionne Warwick, George Clinton & Parliament - Funkadelic, Sam & Dave, Donny Hathaway 2020 Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Public Enemy, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chicago, Iggy Pop, John Prine 2021 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa, Selena, Talking Heads 2022 Bonnie Raitt 2023 Bobby McFerrin, Nirvana, Ma Rainey, Slick Rick, Nile Rodgers, The Supremes, Ann en Nancy Wilson 2024 Laurie Anderson, The Clark Sisters, Gladys Knight, N.W.A, Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette 2025 Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Prince, Roxanne Shante, Frankie Valli2026Carlos Santana, Chaka Khan, Cher, Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Whitney Houston
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Lifetime Achievement Award