Here Are All the MusiCares Person of the Year Honorees

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Carey volition beryllium the 3rd Grammy victor for champion caller creator to spell connected to person the Person of the Year honor.

10/21/2025

MusiCares, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney

From left: Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney Illustration by Lyanne Natividad

MusiCares announced on Tuesday (Oct. 21) that Mariah Carey will beryllium honored arsenic the 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year. The yearly payment gala volition beryllium held astatine the Los Angeles Convention Center connected Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, 2 nights earlier the 68th Annual Grammy Awards astatine the adjoining Crypto.com Arena.

At 56, Carey volition go the youngest idiosyncratic of the twelvemonth honoree since Sting received the grant astatine property 52 successful 2004 — and the youngest pistillate to person the grant since Gloria Estefan, who was conscionable 36 erstwhile she received the grant successful 1994.

This volition beryllium MusiCares’ 35th payment gala. (The lawsuit wasn’t held successful 2021 due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic.) The gala has raised millions to enactment MusiCares’ programs, including wellness and wellness services, addiction recovery, preventive care, catastrophe relief, and exigency enactment for euphony professionals.

The archetypal Person of the Year gala (honoring David Crosby) was held successful 1991, 2 days earlier the 33rd yearly Grammy Awards ceremonial astatine which Carey won her archetypal 2 Grammys – champion caller creator and champion popular vocal performance, pistillate for breakthrough smash, “Vision of Love.”

“We are honored to admit Mariah Carey arsenic this year’s MusiCares Person of the Year, a existent originative unit and once-in-a-generation talent,” Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy and MusiCares, said successful a statement. “Her artistry and her dependable person helped signifier the dependable of our times. We look guardant to celebrating her singular vocation connected this precise peculiar night.”

Here are each of the idiosyncratic of the twelvemonth honorees to date, shown successful reverse chronological order. All years notation to the twelvemonth the idiosyncratic of the twelvemonth lawsuit was held and the twelvemonth of the corresponding Grammy telecast.