Legendary musician Elton John has joined an exclusive club of artists who have won the four major arts awards in the United States: an Oscar (film), a Tony (theatre), a Grammy (music) and, on Monday night, an Emmy. (television) for one of his last concerts, reports AFP.

The Briton became the 19th star to achieve this exceptional performance called “EGOT” (“Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony”) after stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, John Legend or Viola Davis, Agerpres notes.

Elton John, 76, who was absent Monday night in Los Angeles for the 75th Emmy Awards, won the award for best live performance for his farewell concert this year in the city on Nov. 20, 2022.

“Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium” was the signature North American farewell concert of his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” world tour, a marathon of 328 concerts played over five years, raising nearly a billion dollars.

“We knew it was going to be a historic concert because it was Elton’s last concert in North America,” producer Ben Winston said onstage at the Emmys.

But “I didn’t know that the victory of the man who invented all the soundtracks of our lives, the man who did so much for society, one of our heroes, would be historic, I didn’t know that he would defeat the EGO,” he continued.

On Sunday, November 20, 2022, Elton John performed his final North American concert in front of more than 140,000 fans at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, the city that helped launch his global career half a century ago.

On the stage of this baseball stadium, where two of his most famous shows took place in 1975, he performed in concert during a “very special, very emotional” evening, which was broadcast live on Disney+.

The farewell world tour ended in Stockholm last July.

Elton John already has two Oscars for original songs for the soundtracks of The Lion King (1994) and Rocketman (2019), a Tony Award for his performance of Aida in 2000, and five Grammy Awards. .