Kennedy Center Honors

Kennedy Center Honors? What is Kennedy Center Honors? Why Kennedy Center Honors is so famous? Kennedy Center Honors recognizes artists who have made an extraordinary contribution to the arts.


Kennedy Center Honors was broadcast on CBS on December 29, 2009

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There are performers and presenters like Roger Bart, Gary Beach, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Harry Connick, Jr., Cory English, Simon Estes, Melissa Etheridge, Aretha Franklin, Angela Gheorghiu, Herbie Hancock, Ben Harper, Shuler Hensley, Harvey Keitel, Ron Kovic, Jane Krakowski, Richard Kind, Frank Langella, John Mellencamp, Matthew Morrison, Jennifer Nettles, Edward Norton, Carl Reiner, Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman, Martin Scorsese, Martin Short, Jon Stewart, Ben Stiller, Sting, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, and Eddie Vedder.

President and Mrs. Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were seated with the honorees in the Presidential Box of the Kennedy Center Opera House, after having just hosted the traditional White House reception for the honorees.


Kennedy Center 2009 Honorees


Mel Brooks: Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926. Mel Brooks is a versatile person as because he is a great writer, director, composer, actor and producer. He is known for his madcap humor and irreveraent sense of humor that hold nothing sacred. He produced many pictures as per motion and serous like The Elephant Man, 84 Charing Cross Road, Frances, The Fly and My Favorite Year under the name Brooksfilms.

Dave Brubeck: Dave Brubeck who is also a great personality was born in Concord, California 1920. He is a painist. He is the person who helped to ease jazz music into America's mainstream. The innovated musician has swung from the successful Dave Brubek Quartet worldwide success of the 1950s and 1960s through the jazz opera Cannery Row Suite which he created with his wife Iola Brubeck, and the 2006 Monterrey Jazz Festival.

Grace Bumbry: Grace Bumbry is a singer born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1937. From humble roots, Bumbry rose to a major opera singer who debuted a the major Opera Houses in Europe. Bumbry is now a teacher and has formed the Grace Bumbry Black Musical Heritage Ensemble, a choir devoted to preserving and performing traditional Negro spirituals and gospel.

Robert De Niro: Robert De Niro is an actor, director and producer born in 1943 in New York. De Niro is best known for tough guy roles including mobsters, loners, losers and psychopaths. DeNiro has starred in movies including The Godfather, Part II, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear and Casino. DeNiro took a comedic turn in the movies Analyze This, Analyze That, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers.

Bruce Springsteen: Bruce Springsteen is a singer, composer and rock icon born in 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. 'The Boss' is a legendary rock and roll musician with soul who still sells out concerts as a rocker who relates to the working man. Springsteen's long list of hits includes Born in the USA, Streets of Philadelphia and Born to Run.