by Kandiss Edwards
December 23, 2025
The Particular Benefit Awards Ceremony will happen on the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles as a part of the Grammy Week.
The Recording Academy has named music legends Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan amongst this 12 months’s recipients of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is among the 2026 Particular Benefit Awards that the Recording Academy will current throughout Grammy Week on Jan. 31, 2026, forward of the 68th Annual Grammy Awards scheduled for Feb. 1 in Los Angeles.
Houston, who died in 2012, is being acknowledged posthumously for her influential profession, throughout which she bought greater than 200 million information worldwide and achieved a number of chart-topping hits that helped form pop and R&B music.
The Recording Academy acknowledged her in its press launch, stating that she was a record-breaking vocalist whose expertise and greater than 220 million information bought made her one of the crucial celebrated artists in music historical past.
Chaka Khan, a 10-time Grammy winner whose profession spans greater than 5 many years, will even be honored. She is extensively credited with mixing R&B, funk, soul, and jazz throughout her work with Rufus and as a solo artist, with hits equivalent to “I Really feel For You” and “Ain’t No one.”
“She is a trailblazer, storyteller and the voice of energy and freedom for a lot of generations. Her stay performances are nothing wanting electrifying. Chaka Khan stays a residing drive in music – an artist whose work and life proceed to encourage, elevate and redefine what is feasible,” stated the assertion.
Honorees are chosen for his or her “artistic contributions of excellent inventive significance to the sector of recording,” the Academy stated in a press launch.
Along with Houston and Khan, the total roster of Lifetime Achievement honorees for 2026 contains Paul Simon, Cher, Carlos Santana, and Fela Kuti, the Academy stated in its announcement. The awards celebration will even honor different music figures with Trustees Awards and a Technical Grammy Award on the Particular Benefit Awards Ceremony.
Recording Academy CEO, Harvey Mason Jr., stated within the press launch that the group of recipients represents “a rare group whose affect spans generations, genres and the very basis of contemporary music.”
The Particular Benefit Awards Ceremony will happen on the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles as a part of the Grammy Week festivities main as much as the principle televised Grammy Awards occasion.
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