Rod Stewart delivered a full of life efficiency of “Ceaselessly Younger” on the 2025 American Music Awards Monday night time as he acquired the AMA’s lifetime achievement award.
Forward of his set, all 5 of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer’s kids took the stage to honor their father. A subsequent video was performed to showcase the extensiveness of Stewart’s profession.
“Once I began singing the early ’60s, means earlier than any of you lot had been right here, the rationale I acquired into it’s as a result of I had this burning ambition to sing,” he mentioned. “It’s all I wished to do, I didn’t need be wealthy or well-known, and right here I’m a couple of years later, choosing up this glorious award.”
“I wish to thank the entire musicians I’ve performed with, all of my influences,” he mentioned, heaping reward to Sam Cooke, David Ruffin and Muddy Waters.
After accepting the distinction, Stewart sang his 1988 observe “Ceaselessly Younger,” dancing throughout the stage as his accompanying dancers and musicians led an upbeat, high-spirited efficiency.
Monday night time marked Stewart’s return to the AMAs, his first look on the award present in over twenty years since he final carried out a rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Great World” in the course of the present again in 2004.
Jennifer Lopez pulled double obligation on Monday, performing because the night time’s host and one of many award present’s many performers. Alongside Lopez, Benson Boone, Blake Shelton, Gloria Estefan, Gwen Stefani, Lainey Wilson and Reneé Rapp took the stage as properly.
Janet Jackson gave her first TV efficiency in seven years on the 2025 AMAs whereas she was notably honored with the Icon Award. Beforehand, the “That’s the Approach Love Goes” singer acquired the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award in 2018, the place she carried out a medley of “Nasty,” “If” and “Throb.”
Billie Eilish received artist of the yr and Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Smooth received album of the yr whereas “Birds of a Feather” took house music of the yr. Gracie Abrams was topped new artist of the yr. Heading into Monday night time, Kendrick Lamar led this yr’s nominees with 10 nominations, adopted intently by Submit Malone, Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey.
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