Queen Latifah has been tapped to host the forty seventh annual Kennedy Middle Honors, it was introduced Monday by CBS and the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts.
This marks her first time internet hosting the particular, which is able to air at 8:30-11 p.m. ET/8-10:30 p.m. PT on Dec. 22 on CBS and can stream on Paramount+.
The actor-musician-producer is herself a recipient of a 2023 Kennedy Middle Honor, together with being a Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee. She’s at present the star and government producer of CBS’ The Equalizer.
The Kennedy Middle Honors gala will happen Dec. 8 on the Kennedy Middle Opera Home stage in Washington D.C. As beforehand introduced, the recipients of this 12 months’s honors for lifetime inventive achievement are filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola; rock band the Grateful Useless (Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bobby Weir); blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt; jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; and The Apollo, which is able to obtain a particular Honors as a historic American establishment.
The Kennedy Middle Honors “acknowledges and celebrates people whose distinctive contributions have formed the way in which we see ourselves, one another and our world.” Recipients are chosen for his or her impression within the worlds in music, dance, theater, opera, movement footage or tv.
The forty seventh annual Kennedy Middle Honors might be produced by Achieved+Dusted for a 3rd 12 months, in affiliation with ROK Productions. The occasion might be government produced by David Jammy, Elizabeth Kelly and Jack Sussman. The present might be directed by Alex Rudzinski.
