Josh Groban and Teddy Swims will perform at the 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala on Friday, May 8, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., bringing two Warner Records artists to a night built around the label and the recordings entering the Hall of Fame.
Warner Records is this year’s recipient of the Visionary of Music Award, and each performance will honor one of the 14 recordings being inducted in 2026, titles that span nearly a century of recorded music. Groban brings three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 — Closer in 2004, Noel in 2007 and All That Echoes in 2017 — along with five Grammy nominations. Swims arrives with one No. 1 single, “Lose Control,” which was Billboard’s year-end No. 1 song for 2024 and now holds the record for 80 weeks in the Hot 100 top 10 and 112 weeks on the chart overall.
Groban and Swims join a lineup that already includes George Clinton, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Lucinda Williams, Take 6 and Norah Jones, who will also receive the Ray Charles Architect of Sound Award. The gala follows two straight years in which Atlantic Records and then Republic Records were honored as label recipients, underscoring how the event has increasingly become a showcase for the companies behind the music as much as for the recordings themselves.
That is the balancing act for Warner Records on May 8: the label will be celebrated for its 60 years of influence, but the night still depends on the artists who can make the Hall of Fame tribute feel alive. More performers and details are due soon, but the pairing of Groban and Swims already gives the gala two of the label’s most visible voices on a stage where the past and present are set to meet.