Pearl Jam, Joan Baez and Tupac Shakur will be immortalized by being part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Roll in 2017. Could the information be known by the announcement offered by the institution on its website, while it was possible to know that bands Electric Light Orchestra, Yes Journey and receive top honors.
32 ceremony will be held on April 7 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The other novelty is the composer and producer Nile Rodgers will be honored with the award for musical excellence. The US was co-founder of Chic disco music group and also produced the songs "Let's Dance" by David Bowie, "Like a Virgin" by Madonna and "Cosmic Thing" B-52's.
All artists managed to pass the Hall of Fame in the first year in which they were candidates, except for Yes which had already been postulated in repeatedly.
It is important to know that the main requirement to be nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Roll is that the musician or band have released an album with a minimum of 25 years.
The jury was composed of more than 900 music critics with notable historians, members of the music industry and members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
About the winners should know that Tupac Shakur was shot dead in 1996 when he was 25 years old. His most important songs are: "Changes", "Keep Ya Head Up", "Ambitionz Az a Ridah" and "Life Goes On" and left a lot of music that was released after his death.
Pearl Jam is one of the pioneering bands of the most important grunge 1990s were released with songs like "Alive," "Jeremy" and "Even Flow". After Nirvana is the second band of the Seattle grunge movement reaching the Hall of Fame.
Baez performed at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959 when he was 19 years old. With the folk movement managed to be one of the main figures of the genre, along with Bob Dylan also they shared a romantic relationship when both were political activists. "Diamonds and Rust" integrates one of its greatest success.
