Sam Cooke - Posthumous Honors

Posthumous Honors

  • In 1986, Cooke was inducted as a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  • In 1999, Cooke was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him #16 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
  • In 2008, Cooke was named the fourth "Greatest Singer of All Time" by Rolling Stone.
  • In June 2011, the City of Chicago renamed a portion of East 36th Street near Cottage Grove Avenue as the honorary "Sam Cooke Way" to remember the singer near a corner where he hung out and sang as a teenager.

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