GREAT PERFORMANCES: “Grammy Salute to Music Legends”

In collaboration with the Recording Academy®, GREAT PERFORMANCES presents the fifth annual all-star special showcasing 2020 Special Merit Awards recipients, including Lifetime Achievement Award honorees Chicago, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Iggy Pop, John Prine, Public Enemy and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Ken Ehrlich, Philip Glass and Frank Walker receive Trustees Award honors, and George Augspurger is the Technical GRAMMY Award recipient.

Hosted by five-time GRAMMY Award winner Jimmy Jam, this year’s special pays tribute to these diverse music legends through classic performance footage and newly recorded acceptance speeches from honorees and the performers they have influenced. The originally planned April ceremony and concert was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, and Prine tragically died from complications of COVID-19 on April 7. Premieres Friday, October 16 at 9 p.m. on PBS.

Today’s panel featured:

Jimmy Jam, host, five-time GRAMMY® Award winner

Yola, four-time GRAMMY® nominee, including 2020 Best New Artist, who pays tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe

David Wild, GREAT PERFORMANCES “GRAMMY® Salute to Music Legends” writer; author, Contributing Editor to Rolling Stone, producer

And David Horn, series executive producer