Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, and Barry Gibb to Obtain Kennedy Heart Honors

The John F. Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts has introduced that Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, and the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb can be celebrated on the forty sixth Kennedy Heart Honors later this yr. Billy Crystal and opera singer Renée Fleming be a part of them on this yr’s awards class, which honors distinctive lifetime contributions to the humanities. The Washington, D.C. ceremony airs on CBS and Paramount+ on December 3, hosted by 2017 honoree Gloria Estefan.

Queen Latifah shared an announcement about being chosen for the popularity in cultural achievement:

Once we began on this journey many years in the past, we had been typically advised ‘No.’ No, you gained’t be capable to depart New Jersey. No, if you happen to rap you’ll be able to’t sing. No, singers can’t turn into actresses. No, actors can’t additionally produce. To now be acknowledged amongst so many multi-hyphenates feels unbelievable, not for simply me and my crew, however for our neighborhood.

Gibb, who spent his youth in England and Australia, shared an announcement of his personal about being a Kennedy Heart honoree:

It is a great honor! It’s laborious to be proud and humble on the similar time. It is without doubt one of the most particular moments in my life and one thing that I’ll at all times cherish. Once I suppose again over 50 years to our beginnings in Redcliffe, Queensland, I may by no means have anticipated this to occur in my life. Receiving the Kennedy Heart Honors is one thing that everybody hopes would possibly occur in the future. I’ve typically considered however by no means dreamed it may come true. Thanks to all those that made this dream a actuality. I want my brothers had been right here in order that they might’ve shared on this particular second.