Prince, The Conflict, Frankie Valli amongst 2025 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

The Recording Academy has launched its listing of recipients for the 2025 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and it contains Prince, The Conflict and Frankie Valli.

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The awards establishment revealed its choice earlier right this moment (December 20) through its official website, with the three aforementioned acts joined by gospel singer Dr Bobby Lee, old-school hip hop pioneer and rapper Roxanne Shante, Maze frontman Frankie Beverly, and blues singer Taj Mahal.

In the meantime, producer Glyn Johns – who was concerned within the manufacturing of iconic albums by The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles – together with jazz pianist Erroll Garner and classical music composer Tania León will obtain the Trustees Award.

Per the Academy, the latter award is given to people who've “made important contributions, aside from efficiency, to the sphere of recording”. Lastly, the late acoustics engineer Dr. Leo Beranek, who died in 2016 aged 102, will obtain the Technical Grammy Award.

Out of the nominees, the next Lifetime Achievement Award acts will obtain their awards posthumously: Prince, who died in 2016 aged 57, The Conflict’s Joe Strummer, who died in 2002 aged 50, and Beverly, who died in September this yr on the age of 77.

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated in an announcement: “It’s an incredible privilege to honour this eclectic group of music icons through the yr’s greatest week in music.”

“Every of this yr’s Particular Benefit Award recipients has left an indelible mark on music, from paving the best way for others to innovation that without end has modified the trajectory of the musical panorama. We will’t wait to rejoice this group and their achievements in February.”

In August, Prince was inducted into the Songwriter’s Corridor Of Fame, an honour which his sister Sharon Nelson had declared an “award he needed greater than another in life”.

In the meantime, Valli not too long ago issued an announcement after viral movies of the 90-year-old singer at latest reveals sparked concern from followers, saying that “no person has ever made me do something I didn’t need to do.”

Final week, Sam Fender carried out a canopy of The Conflict’s ‘London Calling’ throughout a live performance at The O2.