On May 22, 2026, Miley Cyrus received the 2,845th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, placed in the Recording category at 7011 Hollywood Blvd. The ceremony, attended by her mother Tish Cyrus and sister Brandi Cyrus, was emceed by iHeartMedia personality Ellen K and featured speeches from actress Anya Taylor-Joy and fashion designer Donatella Versace. Her fiancé, musician Maxx Morando, was also in attendance.
The honor came two decades after Cyrus debuted on Hannah Montana and capped a year that had already included a 20th-anniversary special for the show. Cyrus used the occasion not for nostalgia but for something rawer: an extended meditation on devotion, mortality, and art made urgent by impermanence.
"What feels so special to me about this star is that it's an accumulation of devotion," she told the crowd. "The star isn't something that you win like a seasonal game. It's not something that you can chase or collect. It's not something you make the next record for and then tote it around like a trophy." She addressed her own mortality directly, riffing on the closing lyric of "Walk of Fame" — a track from her 2025 visual album Something Beautiful, co-written and performed with Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard — in which Howard sings the words "you'll live forever." Cyrus paused: "Although I love the lyric, the fact I won't is what creates the urgency that sets my heart on fire — my life and my art, and my desire to break down the walls of any boxes that we've been tricked to believe exist."
Anya Taylor-Joy, speaking earlier in the ceremony, praised Cyrus's influence across a generation. "We're celebrating a woman who taught an entire generation how to own their own story," she said.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's citation notes that Cyrus has moved "fluidly between genres — pop, rock, country, soul, and alternative — establishing herself as a true musical chameleon." Her credits include a 2024 Grammy for Record of the Year for "Flowers," the best-selling global single of 2023, and a 2025 Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for her collaboration with Beyoncé. She has also fronted campaigns for Maison Margiela, Gucci's Flora fragrance, and Dolce & Gabbana, and played Ashley O in a celebrated Black Mirror episode.
For a performer whose career has been defined by reinvention — from child star to twerking provocateur to Grammy laureate to arena-filling rock act — the Walk of Fame moment felt less like a culmination than a new coordinate on a longer line. "My name is laid in gold and pink terrazzo," she said, closing her speech. "And at 1 p.m., this moment will be over, and it'll go back to being a sidewalk."
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