Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Adds Whitney Houston and Nine …

The pop singer Whitney Houston, the ’90s industrial-alternative experimentalists Nine Inch Nails and the Brooklyn rapper the Notorious B.I.G.

are among the latest inductees into the gradually broadening tent that is the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

Rounding out the class of 2020, which will be feted by the Rock Hall on May 2 in Cleveland, are the gothy synth-pop group Depeche Mode, which had hits throughout the ’80s and ’90s; the Doobie Brothers, who brought soul, country and jazz sounds into its top-selling ’70s soft rock; and T-Rex, the English glam-rock band fronted by Marc Bolan until his death in 1977.

The hall, founded in the early 1980s, has consistently faced criticism for its opaque internal politics and lack of diversity.

Jackson even addressed this issue in her speech at last year’s induction ceremony: “2020 — please induct more women.”