2024 Grammys pay tribute to Tina Turner, Sinéad O'Connor, Tony Bennett and more with In Memoriam segment

Publish Date
Monday, 5 February 2024, 5:27PM
Photos: Tina Turner/Getty Images, Sinead O'Connor/AP, Tony Bennett/Getty Images

Photos: Tina Turner/Getty Images, Sinead O'Connor/AP, Tony Bennett/Getty Images

The Recording Academy paid tribute to a host of late greats in its annual In Memoriam segment at tonight’s Grammy Awards.

Stevie Wonder opened with For Once In My Life and also covered Tony Bennett's The Best Is Yet To Come. 

Annie Lennox did an incredible cover of Sinéad O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U, ending by calling for a ceasefire which was perhaps the most meaningful and honest way to honor Sinéad ’s memory​.

 Finally, almost twenty years to the day that we saw Fantasia singing Proud Mary for her American Idol audition, she is on the Grammy's stage, singing it again in memory of Tina.

They also honoured Jimmy Buffett, Shane MacGowan, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tugoy the Dove, Ahmad Jamal, Andy Rourke, Rudolph Isley, Mary Weiss, Burt Bacharach, Gangsta Boo, Les McCann, Denny Laine, Chita Rivera, Jane Birkin, Wayne Kramer, David Lindley, Randy Meisner, Charlie Robison, Michael Rhodes, Gary Rossington, Gary Wright, Terry Kirkman, George Winston, Melanie, Jean Knight, Rodriquez, Marlena Shaw, Russell Batiste Jr., Rita Lee, Bobby Caldwell, Aaron Spears, Magoo, and Gordon Lightfoot who we sadly lost last year.

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