The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces that Irish rock band U2, actor George Clooney, singers Gladys Knight and Amy Grant and composer Tania León will be its honorees this year.
Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said in an interview that her group has “worked really hard to think about ‘Are we including all of the performing arts?’” as it hands out its awards. She singled out Grant's music in particular as a different genre being represented in the honors this year.
Rutter said the honor is “not about one work that happens to be popular this year. Or one movie. Or one piece of choreography." It's"about lifetime achievement.”Rutter said she was told U2 frontman Bono was eating and dropped his fork when he was told the band had been selected for the honor. But it took a while for the band to accept because Bono had to get his fellow band members — The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.
“We had big dreams then, fueled in part by the commonly held belief at home that America smiles on Ireland. And it turned out to be true, yet again. But even in the wilder thoughts, we never imagined that 40 years on, we would be invited back to receive one of the nation’s greatest honours,” the band said in a statement, calling the United States"a home away from home.
Clooney and his wife, British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, have 5-year-old twins. Clooney first became well known to audiences on the television series “ER,” on which he played Dr. Doug Ross. His directing credits include “Good Night, and Good Luck," “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” and “The Tender Bar.”Knight, 78, is the only one of this year's honorees who has been a performer at the Kennedy Center Honors.
The Christian music star has two other grandchildren through the daughter of her husband, country musician Vince Gill. Grant said she currently has two songs she’s going into studio to record, including a Christmas song that will be part of a Hallmark movie. “Like a lot of good songs it came out of a therapy session,” she said.
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