Notorious B.I.G, Whitney Houston and the Doobie Brothers to Be Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
are among this year’s honorees. Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and T.Rex have also been inducted into the esteemed group.Induction Ceremony, presented by Klipsch Audio, will take place on May 2 at 8 p.m. in the Public Auditorium in Cleveland and will be broadcast live for the first time on HBO. SiriusXM’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio will also broadcast the Ceremony with exclusive interviews.
Music critic, manager and record producer Jon Landau, along with entertainment executive Irving Azoff, will be presented with the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which honors songwriters, producers, disc jockeys, record executives, journalists and industry professionals who have made a major impact on rock and roll.Larry Busacca/WireImage; Time Life Pictures/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty; Michael Ochs Archives/GettyWhitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G.
News of the inductees and honorees was announced on the SiriusXM VOLUME channel and the Rock Hall’s social media accounts on Tuesday. The nominees were sent to an international voting body of more than 1,000 artists, historians and members of the music industry. Four of the six inductees, namely Houston, Notorious B.I.G., the Doobie Brothers and T.Rex, were included on the voting ballot for the first time.
, whose vocal abilities caught the attention of multiple record labels, was signed by Clive Davis to Arista Records by 1983. Her debut album included three No. 1 hit singles and topped the200 list for 14 weeks. She became the first artist to have seven consecutive No. 1 hits and the first woman to enter the
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