page_title: James Taylor
section_title: Other recognition
hierarchical_section_title: James Taylor / Awards and recognition / Other recognition
caption_attribution_description: English: James Taylor Bridge
context_page_description: James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
  Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first No. 1 hit in 1971 with his recording of "You've Got a Friend", written by Carole King in the same year. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies. Following his 1977 album, JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over 1 million copies. He enjoyed a resurgence in chart performance during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded work. He achieved his first number-one album in the US in 2015 with his recording Before This World.
  He is known for his covers, such as "How Sweet It Is" and "Handy Man", as well as originals such as "Sweet Baby James".
context_section_description: 1995: Honorary doctorate of music from the Berklee College of Music, Boston, 1995.
  2000: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2000.
  2000: Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2000.
  2003: The Chapel Hill Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina opened a permanent exhibit dedicated to Taylor. At the same occasion the US-15-501 highway bridge over Morgan Creek, near the site of the Taylor family home and mentioned in Taylor's song "Copperline", was named in honor of Taylor.
  2004: George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing.
  2004: Ranked 84th in Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
  2009: Honorary Doctorate of Music from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
  2009: Inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
  2010: Inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame
  2012: Received the Montréal Jazz Spirit Award
  2012: Named "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the Ministry of Culture & Communication of France.
  2014: Emmy Award for The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Presents an Evening with James Taylor
  2015: Presidential Medal of Freedom
  2016: Kennedy Center Honors
caption: James Taylor Bridge, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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