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Epitomized Jerome Kern's famous maxim that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music."Irving Berlin, Inducted
His 1882 tune "Materna" combined with poem by Katherine Lee Bates to create beloved patroitic anthemSamuel Ward, Inducted
Wrote Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" and Pink's "Let's Get The Party Started"Linda Perry, Inducted
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