Lucinda Williams, Take 6, & More Will Perform at 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala
Produced by The Recording Academy and Grammy Museum, the event will take place on Friday, May 8, at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, Funkadelic founder George Clinton, rock group Heart, and a cappella gospel sextet Take 6 are set to perform at the 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala.
George Clinton, Heart and Lucinda Williams each have a recording being inducted into this year’s Grammy Hall Of Fame. Produced by The Recording Academy and Grammy Museum, the event will take place on Friday, May 8, at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
As previously announced, multi-Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and pianist Norah Jones will also perform at the Gala and will be presented with the Ray Charles Architect of Sound Award. The evening will also honor this year’s label honoree, Warner Records. Additional performers will be announced soon.
Returning as host is journalist Anthony Mason. The show will be produced by former Grammy Awards Executive Producer Ken Ehrlich, alongside Ron Basile, Chantel Sausedo, Lindsay Saunders Carl, and Lynne Sheridan, with musical direction by Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning composer, producer and conductor Cheche Alara.
The 2026 Grammy Hall Of Fame inducted recordings include 14 titles that span nearly a century of recorded music and range from 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me to Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 to Radiohead’s OK Computer. Others include recordings by Alice Coltrane, Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Ella Jenkins, Eric B. & Rakim, Funkadelic, Heart, Lucinda Williams, Nick Drake, The Rouse Brothers, Selena, and The Soul Stirrers. The full list of past inducted recordings can be seen here.
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