The Grateful Dead are the 2025 MusiCares Individuals of the Yr. Authentic members Mickey Hart, Invoice Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bobby Weir, in addition to the late bandleader Jerry Garcia, shall be honored for his or her music and philanthropy with a tribute evening on the Los Angeles Conference Heart on Friday, January 31, 2025, two days earlier than the Grammy Awards.
The surviving band members stated in an announcement, “It’s easy: all of us want music. It speaks to every of us, providing what we have to face what life presents—enhancing our joys, serving to us unfold them, and making our sorrows simpler to bear. We are able to’t think about a world with out it. As our ol’ pal, Jerry, used to say, ‘You get some, you give some again,’ a tremendously efficient approach to share these advantages.”
The award, they added, is “a testomony to the legacy of the music, which has all the time been greater than us—it’s in regards to the connection between us, the crew, and all those that’ve been on this lengthy unusual journey. It’s not nearly what we create, however about ensuring the individuals behind it, behind us each evening, those who quietly make all of it occur, get the assist they should maintain going, it doesn’t matter what life throws at them.”
Laura Segura, govt director of MusiCares, stated the band’s “legacy transcends music, having constructed a group of followers and collaborators that embody the spirit of connection and assist, one thing that’s deeply aligned with MusiCares’ mission. The band’s ardour for the humanities and philanthropy, together with their enduring dedication to social causes, has made an enduring influence that goes past the stage. It’s a privilege to have a good time their contributions to each music and humanity.”
As ever, the festivities profit what MusiCares describes as its “well being and human companies applications, which provide bodily and psychological well being care, dependancy restoration, preventive clinics, unexpected private emergencies, and catastrophe aid to music professionals.” The 2024 MusiCares Individual of the Yr was Jon Bon Jovi.
