honoree

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Bennett was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006.

From Washington Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Honoree Duran Duran reveals the cancer diagnosis of former guitarist Andy Taylor while John Mellencamp calls out antisemitism at the Rock Hall ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2022

Don Katz has been named the literary and human rights organization’s Business Visionary Honoree for “his transformative contributions to the world of literature and audio storytelling.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Her voice is an alto rasp that “has a certain kind of hoarseness that I love,” says her friend Rita Moreno, a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

Powers, his college-professor wife, Honoree, and their children had a beautiful life in Middlebury, Vt., until their younger son, Kevin, a gifted musician, began to exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia at age 17.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2017