US | Kennedy Center Diana Ross Wins Supreme Honor Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese also among 5 picked for Kennedy Center artists By Peter Fearon Posted Sep 12, 2007 6:15 AM CDT Copied former "Beach Boys" singer Brian Wilson attends a party in New York on Aug. 12, 2005. Wilson has been chosen as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors of 2007, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007 (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen) (Associated Press) There'll be good vibrations at the Kennedy Center: the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Motown legend Diana Ross have been chosen as this year's honorees. Comic actor and writer Steve Martin, film director Martin Scorsese and pianist Leon Fleisher will also be honored, reports the Washington Post. The Kennedy Center awards recognize lasting contributions to the arts in America. All five have "transformed the way we as Americans see, hear and feel the performing arts," said the center's chairman, hedge fund king Stephen A. Schwarzman. "It is a huge, huge honor," said Ross, who added that she was "taken aback" by being chosen. Read These Next North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Skydivers leap from plane 2 minutes before fatal crash. Report an error