| Año
|
Ganadores
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| 1962 |
Bing Crosby
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| 1965 |
Frank Sinatra
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| 1966 |
Duke Ellington
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| 1967 |
Ella Fitzgerald
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| 1968 |
Irving Berlin
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| 1971 |
Elvis Presley
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| 1972 |
Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson
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| 1984 |
Chuck Berry, Charlie Parker
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| 1985 |
Leonard Bernstein
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| 1986 |
Benny Goodman, The Rolling Stones, Andrés Segovia
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| 1987 |
Roy Acuff, Benny Carter, Enrico Caruso, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Woody Herman, Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Isaac Stern, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Hank Williams
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| 1989 |
Fred Astaire, Pau Casals, Dizzy Gillespie, Jascha Heifetz, Lena Horne, Leontyne Price, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan
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| 1990 |
Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, Paul McCartney
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| 1991 |
Marian Anderson, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Kitty Wells
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| 1992 |
James Brown, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters
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| 1993 |
Chet Atkins, Little Richard, Thelonious Monk, Bill Monroe, Pete Seeger, Fats Waller
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| 1994 |
Bill Evans, Aretha Franklin, Arthur Rubinstein
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| 1995 |
Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, Henry Mancini, Curtis Mayfield, Barbra Streisand
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| 1996 |
Dave Brubeck, Marvin Gaye, Georg Solti, Stevie Wonder
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| 1997 |
Bobby "Blue" Bland, The Everly Brothers, Judy Garland, Stéphane Grappelli, Buddy Holly, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Frank Zappa
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| 1998 |
Bo Diddley, Mills Brothers, Roy Orbison, Paul Robeson
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| 1999 |
Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Mel Tormé
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| 2000 |
Harry Belafonte, Woody Guthrie, John Lee Hooker, Mitch Miller, Willie Nelson, Bee Gees
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| 2001 |
The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Marley, The Who
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| 2002 |
Count Basie, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Al Green, Joni Mitchell
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| 2003 |
Etta James, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Miller, Tito Puente, Simon & Garfunkel
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| 2004 |
Van Cliburn, The Funk Brothers, Ella Jenkins, Sonny Rollins, Artie Shaw, Doc Watson
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| 2005 |
Eddy Arnold, Art Blakey, The Carter Family, Morton Gould, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Perkins, The Staple Singers
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| 2006 |
David Bowie, Cream, Merle Haggard, Robert Johnson, Jessye Norman, Richard Pryor, The Weavers
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| 2007 |
Joan Baez, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Bob Wills
|
| 2008 |
Burt Bacharach, The Band, Cab Calloway, Doris Day, Itzhak Perlman, Max Roach, Earl Scruggs
|
| 2009 |
Gene Autry, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Four Tops, Hank Jones, Brenda Lee, Dean Martin, Tom Paxton
|
| 2010 |
Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, André Previn, Clark Terry
|
| 2011 |
Julie Andrews, Roy Haynes, Juilliard String Quartet, The Kingston Trio, Dolly Parton, Ramones, George Beverly Shea[1]
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| 2012 |
The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antônio Carlos Jobim, George Jones, The Memphis Horns, Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron
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| 2013 |
Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page, Ravi Shankar, The Temptations[2]
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| 2014 |
The Beatles, Clifton Chenier, The Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, Maud Powell[3]
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| 2015 |
Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, George Harrison, Buddy Guy, Flaco Jiménez, The Louvin Brothers, Wayne Shorter
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| 2016 |
Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Run-DMC
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| 2017 |
Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, The Velvet Underground
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| 2018 |
Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, The Meters, Queen, Tina Turner
|
| 2021 |
Selena
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