Rod Stewart delivered a vigorous efficiency of “Endlessly Younger” on the 2025 American Music Awards Monday evening as he acquired the AMA’s lifetime achievement award.
Forward of his set, all 5 of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer’s youngsters took the stage to honor their father. A subsequent video was performed to showcase the extensiveness of Stewart’s profession.
“Once I began singing the early ’60s, approach earlier than any of you lot had been right here, the rationale I obtained into it’s as a result of I had this burning ambition to sing,” he stated. “It’s all I wished to do, I didn’t need be wealthy or well-known, and right here I’m just a few years later, selecting up this excellent award.”
“I wish to thank the entire musicians I’ve performed with, all of my influences,” he stated, heaping reward to Sam Cooke, David Ruffin and Muddy Waters.
After accepting the glory, Stewart sang his 1988 monitor “Endlessly Younger,” dancing throughout the stage as his accompanying dancers and musicians led an upbeat, high-spirited efficiency.
Monday evening marked Stewart’s return to the AMAs, his first look on the award present in over 20 years since he final carried out a rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Fantastic World” through the present again in 2004.
Jennifer Lopez pulled double responsibility on Monday, appearing because the evening’s host and one of many award present’s many performers. Alongside Lopez, Benson Boone, Blake Shelton, Gloria Estefan, Gwen Stefani, Lainey Wilson and Reneé Rapp took the stage as properly.
Janet Jackson gave her first TV efficiency in seven years on the 2025 AMAs whereas she was notably honored with the Icon Award. Beforehand, the “That’s the Means Love Goes” singer acquired the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award in 2018, the place she carried out a medley of “Nasty,” “If” and “Throb.”
Billie Eilish gained artist of the 12 months and Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious and Smooth gained album of the 12 months whereas “Birds of a Feather” took residence tune of the 12 months. Gracie Abrams was topped new artist of the 12 months. Heading into Monday evening, Kendrick Lamar led this 12 months’s nominees with 10 nominations, adopted carefully by Submit Malone, Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey.
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