# Here Are Special Award Recipients & Performers for the 2026 Soul Train Awards: Updating List

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/here-are-special-award-recipients-performers-for-the-2026-soul-train-awards-updating-list/
- Published: 2026-10-27T15:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T05:55:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Billboard
- Original article: https://www.billboard.com/lists/soul-train-awards-2026-special-awards-recipients-performers/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Elmiene, Durand Bernarr and Chaka Khan will receive special honours.
- Elmiene and Bernarr are also set to perform.
- The awards return on 27 November with a first-time CBS simulcast.

## Summary

BET has announced three special honourees for the 2026 Soul Train Awards: Elmiene, Durand Bernarr and Chaka Khan. Elmiene and Bernarr will also perform, with Bernarr hosting the digital red carpet show; their recognition highlights emerging and established contributions to R&B.

Hosted by Anthony Anderson, the two-hour ceremony will be taped in Chicago on 5 November and broadcast on 27 November at 8 p.m. ET/PT, with its first simulcast on CBS alongside several other channels. It is the first Soul Train Awards since 2023, and will feature two fan-voted competitive categories as well as a fan poll to choose the greatest R&B song of the 2020s. Elmiene, a British Sudanese artist from Oxford, released his debut album *Sounds for Someone* this spring; Bernarr won the 2026 Grammy for best progressive R&B album for *Bloom*.

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