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Here Are the 2025 Doris Duke Foundation Prize Recipients: The Honor Is Great. So Is the Unrestricted $525K Cash Prize

Kassa Overall and Brandee Younger are among the six recipients of the 2025 Doris Duke Artist Awards, the largest cash prize in the U.S. for artists.

The award is the largest cash prize in the U.S. dedicated to individual performing artists, specifically those in theater, jazz, and dance. Overall, 42, was nominated for a Grammy four years ago for best jazz instrumental album as a member of Social Science for Waiting Game, a collab with Terri Lyne Carrington(who was a Doris Duke Award winner in 2019). Early in her career, Younger worked with a diverse range of artists, including Pharoah Sanders, Common, John Legend, The Roots, and Lauryn Hill.

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