Mariah Carey Named 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year: ‘Her Voice Has Shaped the Sound of Our Times’

Mariah Carey will beryllium honored as the 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year astatine the organization’s yearly fundraiser. The lawsuit volition beryllium held connected Friday, Jan. 30 astatine the Los Angeles Convention Center, 2 days earlier the 68th yearly Grammy Awards astatine the adjacent 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. She volition go the youngest pistillate to person the grant since Gloria Estefan, who was conscionable 36 erstwhile she received the grant successful 1994.

“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.”

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 of dollars 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.”

Carey joins a distinguished database of MusiCares honorees. The past 5 recipients of the grant are Aerosmith, Joni Mitchell, Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson, Read Entire Article