Gladys Knight, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds and David Foster will carry out on the 2018 Carousel of Hope Ball on Oct. 6 on the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
The biennial occasion, which advantages the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes and applications run by the Children’s Diabetes Foundation, has raised greater than $110 million since its 1977 inception.
This 12 months’s recipient of the Brass Ring Award will likely be Robert De Niro. Jay Leno will function grasp of ceremonies, with Foster additionally dealing with music director duties. Quincy Jones and Clive Davis are the music chairmen, whereas Sharon Stone would be the auctioneer for the stay public sale.
In addition to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Knight, 11-time Grammy winner Edmonds, and 16-time Grammy winner Foster, Fernando Varela, Pia Toscano and Shelea Frazier may even carry out. Past performers embody Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Beyoncé, Sir Elton John, Sting, the Bee Gees, Ricky Martin, Smokey Robinson, Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
Past Brass Ring honorees embody Maria Shriver, Sir Sidney Poitier, Jones, Sinatra, Clive Davis, Denzel Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Houston, Clooney, Lucille Ball, Merv Griffin, Foster and Jane Fonda.