Carey will be honored with the Music Icon Award, with musical tributes from her godmother, Patti LaBelle, and EGOT-winner Jennifer Hudson, who recently had the Queen of Christmas on her talk show. Washington, meantime, will receive the Film Icon Award, with Kevin Hart receiving the Comedy Icon Award. Johnson will also be in attendance to receive the Inspirational Icon Award.
Other honorees include Don Cheadle, dancer Misty Copeland, Tamron Hall, Steve Harvey, and Murphy, who will receive the singular Icon Award.In addition to LaBelle and Hudson, musical performers include Boyz II Men, Coco Jones and Smokey Robinson.
In a sneak peek released by CBS, Carey accepts her award on stage and shouts out Murphy in the audience, recalling the first time she met the actor while early on in her career. The awards ceremony appearance comes on the heels of a busy month for Carey, who is currently in the middle of her Merry Christmas One and All Tour (see tickets here).
Murphy, meantime, is set to appear in the Amazon Original Christmas movie, Candy Cane Lane, which streams on Prime Video beginning on Dec. 1.The Grio Awards were created by Byron Allen, the founder, chairman and ceo of Allen Media Group, who owns the African-American-focused news, lifestyle, sports and entertainment platform theGrio.
“I created the Grio Awards to celebrate and amplify African American excellence and the incredible champions from other communities who truly support us,” Allen says, in a release. “As a child, strong, positive African American icons such as Berry Gordy, Jr., Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King, Jr. helped me see myself differently and changed the trajectory of my life. Celebrating and amplifying iconic individuals is something we can never do enough of, especially for our children.”
