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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland-based Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has chosen its inductees for the class of 2021 amid a still existing pandemic with R&B legend Tina Turner, rapper Jay-Z and singer-songwriter Carole King making the cut among other inductees and R&B artist Chaka Khan, also dubbed the "Queen of Funk," getting snubbed.
A 10-time Grammy Award winner, Khan was snubbed for a second time since 2016, the year a third of the 15 nominees were Black and no women were chosen and only one Black group, N.W.A, was inducted.
Janet Jackson was not chosen that year either, she and Khan the only female nominees that year, though Jackson was later inducted in 2019.
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The 36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place for the first time in the city of Cleveland and live on Saturday, Oct 30, 2021 at 8 p.m. ET at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse coupled with a radio simulcast on SiriusXM’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio channel 310.
It will air at a later date on HBO and stream on HBO Max.
Tickets go on sale to the public in July.
To be eligible for induction, artists are required to have released their first record 25 years prior to induction. Learn more about the qualifications and categories here: rockhall.com/inductees/categories
Select Rock Hall donors and members get exclusive induction ticket opportunities. Donate or join by June 30, 2021 to be eligible.
Visit rockhall.com/join to learn more.
In determining this year's class of inductees, and some previous year inductees, ballots were sent to an international voting body of more than 1,200 artists, including current living inductees, historians and members of the music industry and actors such as an artist’s musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique are taken into consideration.
The full list of the 2021 honorees is as follows:
Performer Category:
Foo Fighters
The Go-Go’s
JAY-Z
Carole King
Todd Rundgren
Tina Turner
Ahmet Ertegun Award:
Clarence Avant
Musical Excellence Award:
LL Cool J
Billy Preston
Randy Rhoads
Early Influence Award:
Kraftwerk
Gil Scott-Heron
Charley Patton
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher. Coleman is a Black political, legal and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post in Cleveland, Ohio, and under two publishers and several editors
