The recipients of one of the United States’ most prestigious cultural awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, have been announced for 2022.
George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight, Tania León and Amy Grant are being given the yearly awards, which were founded in 1978 and last year recognised Joni Mitchell and Berry Gordy among others.
Clooney was hailed by Kennedy Center chairman David M Rubenstein for his “unique brand of earnest charisma and his complete embodiment of a character [that] has led us to root for him every time.”
Growing up in a small town in Kentucky I could never have imagined that someday I’d be the one sitting in the balcony at the Kennedy Center Honors.”