Five-time Grammy Award-winner Mariah Carey will be honored as the 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year all-star fundraising concert on Jan. 30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event will be held two days before the 68th annual Grammy Awards takes place Feb. 1 at the adjacent Crypto.com Arena.

Carey is being honored for “her extraordinary creative accomplishments and her long-standing dedication to helping communities and people in need” by MusiCares, a branch of the Recording Academy, under whose auspices the Grammy Awards are also presented. The lineup of performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Since its debut in 1989, when David Crosby was honored, MusiCares has raised more than $100 million to provide assistance to musicians and other music-industry workers facing fina

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