Friday night’s MusiCares Persons of the Year gala marked the first time the Recording Academy’s charitable organization honored the work and philanthropy of two musicians instead of just one at its annual Grammy weekend tribute concert.
“In my life I have been blessed enough to get a few awards,”told the crowd of donors and industry types [including Elton John] at the Los Angeles Convention Center near the end of the two-hour event. “But this one is really, really, really, probably the most special to me because I’m getting this award tonight with my very best friend in the world”: 93-year-old Motown Records founder Berry Gordy.
Legend did the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” in a plush low-and-slow style, while Sheryl Crow aimed for the exuberance — and the sky-high vocal notes — of a young Michael Jackson in “I Want You Back.” : “Thank you so very much for allowing me to be your friend,” she told Gordy and Robinson, “and to me for allowing you to be mine.
— took part in a quick-moving display of vocal and instrumental chops; Hathaway, backed by PJ Morton on churchy electric piano, found some room to play with the melody of “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing.”As always, Carlile’s voice was a thing to behold in “The Tracks of My Tears,” even if she played it straight in terms of the song’s arrangement.
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