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Prince, the Clash to Receive 2025 Grammys’ Lifetime Achievement Awards


Prince, the Clash, and Frankie Valli are among the artists who will receive lifetime achievement awards at the 2025 Grammys’ Special Merit Awards.

Pioneering Juice Crew rapper Roxanne Shante, Maze’s Frankie Beverly, blues great Taj Mahal, and gospel singer Dr. Bobby Jones will also be given lifetime achievement awards at the Feb. 1 event, while jazz legend Erroll Garner, Cuban composer Tania Leon, and producer Glyn Johns will receive the Recording Academy’s trustees award. In recent years, Grammy Lifetime Achievement award recipients have included Nirvana, Nile Rodgers, N.W.A., Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette, and the Supremes. The Special Merit Awards will take place at Los Angeles’ Wilshire Ebell Theater on Feb. 1, one day before the 2025 Grammys themselves go down at the Crypto .com Arena on Feb. 2.

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