2025 MEMPHIS MUSIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY
Thursday, September 25, 2025
7:00 PM
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
255 N. Main St. at Renasant Convention Center
“Memphis Music’s Biggest Night of the Year!”
Each year, new, world-changing inductees are honored at the annual Memphis Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and presented with the Mike Curb Award, or “The Mic,” the official trophy of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
This year’s 2025 Memphis Music Hall of Fame Inductees include (alphabetically), Art Gilliam, President & CEO of Memphis’ WLOK Radio for over 45 years who became the first black radio owner in Tennessee and the entire Southeast, Cordell Jackson, the “Rock ‘n’ Roll Granny” who became the country’s first female recording engineer and the first woman to start her own record company, Moon Records, in 1956, Robert Johnson, who became one of if not “the” greatest blues musician of all time despite only recorded 29 songs, Denise LaSalle, late blues singer, songwriter and producer known as “The Queen of the Blues,” Wendy Moten, whose first single hit the Top 10, has recorded and toured wth other hit makers and finished first runner-up on The Voice, and Johnnie Taylor, “The Philosopher of Soul” who began his career in gospel with Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrer before creating million-seller hits at Stax Records.
The Memphis Music Hall of Fame aims to pay tribute to those Memphis icons whose enduring contributions to music are still inspiring and influencing people worldwide. Each year, the MMHOF Nominating Committee selects from among those many artists and visionaries whose impact on music and pop culture merits recognition. No city compares to Memphis regarding our wealth of musical talent, a fact proven by the hundreds of legendary groups and individuals whose music placed Memphis on the world map and changed the cultural complexion of the planet forever.
Tickets for the 2025 Memphis Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony are on sale now and will be available at the Cannon Center Box Office or www.ticketmaster.com.