| 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 |
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