LeToya Luckett and Rickey Smiley will host Black Music Honors 2018, August 16 in
Rickey Smiley and LeToya Luckett, hosts of Black Music Honors. Photo courtesy of Central City Productions.
Nashville at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
The star-studded event honors African American music artists, producers, songwriters and others who have profoundly influenced the landscape of American music. This year’s honorees include greats in R&B , Gospel, Urban and the Music Business.
Bobby Brown, will receive this year’s R&B Soul Music Icon Award for his 40 years in entertainment. Gospel and Inspirational Music pioneers, brother and sister, Bebe and Cece Winans will be co-honorees and recipients of the Gospel Music Icon Award. Grammy nominated producer and label executive Dallas Austin will be presented with the Music Innovator Icon Award. Faith Evans, multi-platinum, Grammy® Award-winning recording artist, songwriter and producer is set to receive the Urban Music Icon Award while Rap Music pioneer Whodini is being honored with the Hip Hop Icon Award.
“The vision of the Black Music Honors is to recognize the trailblazers in African American
Black Music Honorees Be Be and Ce Ce Winans.
music who have paved the way for the artists of today. Many of these artists have never received their much-deserved recognition,” said Don Jackson, founder and CEO of Central City Productions, producers of Black Music Honors.
Television and syndicated radio personality Rickey Smiley and Grammy® Award-winner and actress LeToya Luckett are making a return visit as hosts of Black Music Honors, which will air in broadcast syndication September 8-30, 2018.
Black Music Honors is a ticketed event that fans can attend. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the 2019 opening of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville. NMAAM’s mission is to educate the world, preserve the legacy, and celebrate the central role African Americans play in creating the American soundtrack.
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