LOS ANGELES – Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson are among the singers set to pay tribute to this year’s eclectic group of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
Aguilera and Hudson performed in honor of late disco queen Donna Summer at Thursday night’s 28th annual induction ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
Summer is among this year’s eight inductees, which also include rockers Heart and Rush, singer-songwriter Randy Newman, rap group Public Enemy and bluesman Albert King, as well as Lou Adler and Quincy Jones, this year’s Ahmet Ertegun lifetime achievement honorees.
Heart, Randy Newman, Public Enemy and Rush also performed at Thursday’s star-studded event, while Usher sang for Jones, Carole King performed for Adler and John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr. paid tribute to the late Albert King.
Other artists scheduled to attend include the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins, who presented Rush; Jackson Browne and John Fogerty, who performed with Randy Newman; Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, who joined Heart; Spike Lee and Harry Belafonte, who presented Public Enemy; and Don Henley, who inducted Newman.
The event marks the first time since 1993 that the Cleveland institution has held its induction ceremony on the West Coast. It will be broadcast May 18 on HBO.
