Yıl | Yaşam Boyu Başarı Ödülü sahibi |
1962 | Bing Crosby |
1965 | Frank Sinatra |
1966 | Duke Ellington |
1967 | Ella Fitzgerald |
1968 | Irving Berlin |
1971 | Elvis Presley |
1972 | Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson |
1981 | Fred Astaire |
1984 | Chuck Berry, Charlie Parker |
1985 | Leonard Bernstein |
1986 | Benny Goodman, The Rolling Stones, Andrés Segovia |
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 Sr. |
1989 | Fred Astaire, Pablo Casals, Dizzy Gillespie, Jascha Heifetz, Lena Horne, Leontyne Price, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan |
1990 | Nat "King" Cole, Miles Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, Paul McCartney |
1991 | Marian Anderson, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Kitty Wells |
1992 | James Brown, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters |
1993 | Chet Atkins, Little Richard, Thelonious Monk, Bill Monroe, Pete Seeger, Fats Waller |
1994 | Bill Evans, Aretha Franklin, Arthur Rubinstein |
1995 | Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, Henry Mancini, Curtis Mayfield, Barbra Streisand |
1996 | Dave Brubeck, Marvin Gaye, Georg Solti, Stevie Wonder |
1997 | Bobby "Blue" Bland, The Everly Brothers, Judy Garland, Stéphane Grappelli, Buddy Holly, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Frank Zappa |
1998 | Bo Diddley, The Mills Brothers, Roy Orbison, Paul Robeson |
1999 | Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Mel Tormé |
2000 | Harry Belafonte, Woody Guthrie, John Lee Hooker, Mitch Miller, Willie Nelson |
2001 | The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Marley, The Who |
2002 | Count Basie, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Al Green, Joni Mitchell |
2003 | Etta James, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Miller, Tito Puente, Simon and Garfunkel |
2004 | Van Cliburn, The Funk Brothers, Ella Jenkins, Sonny Rollins, Artie Shaw, Doc Watson |
2005 | Eddy Arnold, Art Blakey, The Carter Family, Morton Gould, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, The Staple Singers |
2006 | David Bowie, Cream, Merle Haggard, Robert Johnson, Jessye Norman, Richard Pryor, The Weavers |
2007 | Joan Baez, Booker T. & The MG's, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, The Doors, The 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, The Ramones, George Beverly Shea |
2012 | Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antonio Carlos Jobim, George Jones, the Memphis Horns, Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron |
2013 | Ravi Shankar, The Temptations, Carole King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Patti Page, Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden |
2014 | The Beatles, Clifton Chenier, The Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, Maud Powell |
2015 | The Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, Buddy Guy, George Harrison, Flaco Jiménez, The Louvin Brothers, Wayne Shorter |
2016 | Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Run-D.M.C. |