Jon Bon Jovi Named 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year

Jon Bon Jovi can add yet another accolade to his incredible career.

The Bon Jovi frontman has been named the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year. MusiCares is the philanthropic arm of the Recording Academy, the group that organizes the Grammy Awards. The Person of the Year honor has gone to a number of legendary musicians for their dedication to service. Recent honorees include Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell.

In fact, JBJ found out about the honor via a special video from 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year Paul McCartney, which he shared via social media.

Executive Director of MusiCares Laura Segura said in a statement, "MusiCares is thrilled to honor Jon Bon Jovi at the 2024 Person of the Year Gala ... His long-standing commitment to serving food-insecure and unhoused individuals inspires us all."

The 33rd annual Person of the Year gala event honoring Bon Jovi will take place on February 2, 2024 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Bon Jovi founded his JBJ Soul Foundation in 2006. The foundation is behind the JBJ Soul Kitchen, which has four restaurant locations in New Jersey that supply meals to people in need. The Soul Kitchen went viral during the coronavirus pandemic. They shared a photo of Bon Jovi washing dishes in the kitchen of their Red Bank, N.J. location.

Bon Jovi has been active for over four decades, and they aren't showing signs of slowing down.

Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career has netted them over 130 million albums sold worldwide and legions of fans spanning generations.

Narrowing down their catalog to a select number of songs and ranking them is a daunting task, but here are Bon Jovi's 35 best songs, ranked.

A new docuseries about Bon Jovi is set to premiere on Hulu on April 26. The docuseries is titled Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The docuseries also has the cooperation of all Bon Jovi members, both past and present. A teaser trailer of the docuseries offers a supercut of the band's wild career, including the exit of guitarist Richie Sambora.

Additionally, the teaser trailer shows Jon Bon Jovi in a hospital bed. He's holding a dry-erase board that simply says, "I'm good." Meanwhile, an unidentified voiceover says, "Jon's going through his challenges." It then cuts to JBJ saying, "It almost killed us."

The "challenges" appear to be about Bon Jovi's recent vocal issues, which he discussed during the Pollstar Live! conference in February 2024.

Per Ultimate Classic Rock, Bon Jovi said, "It's become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this, ever. So it's been a difficult road, but I found a doctor in Philadelphia who did something called a medialization, because one of my cords was literally atrophied."

A description of Thank You, Goodnight from Hulu also promises it will delve into the band's "most public moments of friction." Of course, this is likely a reference to the 2013 exit of Sambora, who has often talked about the potential of rejoining the band.