by Jeroslyn JoVonn
April 23, 2024
Johnny Gill, Patrice Rushen, Bootsy Collins, and Hezekiah Walker to be celebrated at 2024 Black Music Honors.
The ninth annual Black Music Honors is constant its legacy of celebrating city music by honoring Johnny Gill, Patrice Rushen, Bootsy Collins, and Hezekiah Walker at this 12 months’s ceremony.
Happening on the Cobb Vitality Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, Might 18th, the 2024 Black Music Honors will embrace televised performances, speeches, and moments that spotlight the best of Black tradition. Actress/singer LeToya Luckett and comic DeRay Davis had a lot enjoyable co-hosting collectively final 12 months that they’ll return to their mistress and grasp of ceremonies position.
“For the previous 9 years, Black Music Honors has surrounded and supported the superb artists who’ve entertained tens of millions,” Founder and Govt Producer Don Jackson says.
“This 12 months’s celebrants are trailblazers and should be honored. We’re extraordinarily proud to deliver extra visibility to those super icons who’ve stayed the course from humble beginnings to careers that span a long time. Their lives and tales are a part of the gorgeous tapestry of black music…which has impacted the globe.”
Black Music Honors is thought for giving flowers to Black entertainers who’ve paved lanes that will or could not have been acknowledged by main award reveals. Whereas Walker has acquired two Grammy awards for his work in gospel music and Collins received a Grammy in 2002 for Greatest Music Video, Gill and Rushen have been nominated a number of occasions however by no means received.
The televised particular will movie in Might however received’t premiere till the next month in honor of Black Music Month. Viewers can catch the award present on the Stellar Community on Saturday, June 1 at 8 pm EST with a rebroadcast at 10 pm EST and nationwide broadcast syndication June 8 – June 30 in tribute. Bounce TV can even air the present on Wednesday, June nineteenth (Juneteenth) at 9 pm EST.
“We’re extraordinarily proud to deliver extra visibility to those super icons who’ve stayed the course from humble beginnings to careers that span a long time,” Jackson added.
“Their lives and tales are a part of the gorgeous tapestry of Black music…which has impacted the globe.”
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