2019 BLACK GIRLS ROCK! PERFORMERS ARE ANNOUNCED
INDIA.ARIE, COMMON, ERYKAH BADU, ARI LENNOX, ELLE VARNER, MONICA, KIANA LEDÉ, MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF A.Okay.A. MUMU FRESH, CRYSTAL WATERS, CECE PENISTON, ROBIN S., AND DJ COCOA CHANELLE, SET TO PERFORM AT THE 2019 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!® AWARDS
ISSA RAE, BRANDY, RAPSODY, SKAI JACKSON, NIATIA “LIL MAMA” KIRKLAND, MISS AMERICA 2019 NIA FRANKLIN, MISS USA 2019 CHESLIE KRYST, TAMIKA MALLORY, AND BEVERLY BOND ARE AMONG PRESENTERS
KIM BURSE RETURNS AS MUSICAL DIRECTOR, LEADING ALL FEMALE HOUSE BAND
THE 2019 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!® AWARDS, HOSTED BY NIECY NASH, PREMIERES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER eight AT eight P.M.
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NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 22, 2019 – Right now BET Networks and Beverly Bond, Govt Producer and Creator of BLACK GIRLS ROCK!® announce the performers at The 2019 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!® Awards on BET. The road-up will embody India.Arie, Widespread, Erykah Badu, Ari Lennox, Elle Varner, Monica, Kiana Ledé, and Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Recent. Home music icons, Crystal Waters, Cece Peniston, Robin S., and DJ Cocoa Chanelle will collaborate for a particular second.
Presenters who will take the stage, embody Brandy, Issa Rae, Rapsody, Niatia “Lil Mama” Kirkland, Skai Jackson, Miss America 2019 Nia Franklin, Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst, and Tamika Mallory.
Musical Director Kim Burse, will return for the ninth 12 months to guide the home band, an exceptional group of all-female musicians, together with Cora Coleman (Drums), Divinity Roxx (Bass), Crystal Vargas (Percussion), Lynette Williams (Keyboard), Ashlee Juno (Guitar), Katty Rodriguez (Saxophone), Lessie Vonner (Trumpet), Arnetta Johnson (Trumpet), Myrish Spell (Trombone), and background vocalists Tiffany Ryan, Ayana George, & Latayvia Chery.
This 12 months’s celebration will tape on Sunday, August 25, 2019, on the New Jersey Performing Arts Middle (NJPAC) Prudential Corridor in Newark, NJ and can premiere on Sunday, September eighth, 2019, at eight:00 P.M. ET/PT on BET.
As beforehand introduced, the 2019 star-studded line up of celebrants will embody Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated actress, director, and producer Angela Bassett (Icon Award), Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy-winning actress and director Regina King (Star Energy Award), GRAMMY-Award successful singer/songwriter Ciara (Rock Star Award), Academy Award and Emmy Award-nominated producer and business trailblazer Debra Martin Chase (Shot Caller Award) two-time GRAMMY Award-winning musician H.E.R. (Younger Gifted and Black Award), and activists The Moms of The Motion Sybrina Fulton, Geneva Reed-Veal, Gwen Carr, Congresswoman Lucy McBath, Maria Hamilton and Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton (Group Change Agent Award).
The televised particular is a BET Networks, B.G.R. Enterprises Inc./BONDVISION MEDIA and Jesse Collins Leisure manufacturing. The manager producers are Beverly Bond, creator and CEO of BLACK GIRLS ROCK!®, Connie Orlando, Head of Unique Programming for BET Networks and Jesse Collins and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Leisure.
The 2019 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!® Awards will air on BET Africa at eight P.M. CAT on September 10th, BET France at 10 P.M. CEST on September 11th and at 9 P.M. BST on BET UK and 9 P.M. KST on BET South Korea on September 12th.
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ABOUT BLACK GIRLS ROCK!®:
Based by movie star DJ, mannequin and government producer Beverly Bond, the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! ® Awards present was created to have fun the nexus of achievements of exemplary girls of colour who break boundaries, blaze trails, and set developments throughout sectors. Since 2006, the annual BLACK GIRLS ROCK!® Awards has honored an impressive vary of achieved and provoking girls throughout generations and genres. BLACK GIRLS ROCK! is a multifaceted media, leisure, philanthropic, and way of life model that focuses on the empowerment of girls and ladies of colour. The BLACK GIRLS ROCK! platform encompasses quite a few experiential stay occasions, media content material, merchandise, and applications together with the internationally acclaimed televised BLACK GIRLS ROCK! Awards, The BLACK GIRL MAGIC™ Hour podcast, and BLACK GIRLS ROCK! Inc., a 501(c)Three not-for-profit, and the BLACK GIRLS LEAD summer season management intensive for teen ladies. The BLACK GIRLS ROCK! motion continues to be a number one drive in highlighting the spectrum of brilliance that Black girls possess and stay on the vanguard of a cultural paradigm shift the place Black girls’s narratives, total presence in society, and prominence in mainstream media are being elevated and acknowledged like by no means earlier than. For extra data on BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™, go to http://www.blackgirlsrock.com.
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ABOUT BET NETWORKS:
BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIA.B), is the nation’s main supplier of high quality leisure, music, information and public affairs tv programming for the African-American viewers. The first BET channel reaches greater than 90 million households and might be seen in the US, Canada, the Caribbean, the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American shopper model with a various group of enterprise extensions: BET.com, a number one Web vacation spot for black leisure, music, tradition and information; BET HER, a 24-hour leisure community concentrating on the African-American girl; BET Music Networks – BET Jams, BET Soul and BET Gospel; BET House Leisure; BET Dwell, BET’s rising pageant enterprise; BET Cell, which gives ringtones, video games and video content material for wi-fi units; and BET Worldwide, which operates BET across the globe.
ABOUT JESSE COLLINS ENTERTAINMENT:
Jesse Collins Leisure (JCE) is a full-service tv and movie manufacturing firm based by leisure business veteran Jesse Collins. For greater than a decade, the corporate has performed an integral position in producing a few of tv’s most memorable moments in music leisure together with groundbreaking and award successful tv programming together with the BET Awards, Soul Practice Awards, BET Honors, UNCF An Night of Stars, ABFF Awards and the BET Hip Hop Awards. On the scripted aspect, JCE has produced quite a few reveals for BET together with Actual Husbands of Hollywood starring Kevin Hart in addition to the critically acclaimed The New Version Story, a biopic on the boy band that aired as a Three-part mini-series. It posted report scores for the community and attracted practically 30 million viewers. It was adopted by The Bobby Brown Story, which chronicled the proficient however troubled singer’s exit from the favored ’80s boy band by way of his solo success and was the very best rated non-tentpole program on the community since The New Version Story. The corporate’s second season of American Soul, the critically-acclaimed interval drama primarily based on the untold rise of the enduring music and dance program Soul Practice, will debut in 2020. Go to http://www.jessecollinsent.com/ for extra data on the corporate.
ABOUT NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER:
New Jersey Performing Arts Middle (NJPAC), situated in downtown Newark, New Jersey, is among the many largest performing arts facilities in the US. It’s the inventive, cultural, instructional and civic middle of New Jersey — the place nice performances and occasions improve and rework lives on daily basis. As New Jersey’s City Sq., NJPAC brings numerous communities collectively, offering entry to all and showcasing the State’s and the world’s finest artists, whereas appearing as a number one catalyst within the revitalization of its house metropolis. Via its in depth Arts Education schemes, NJPAC is shaping the following era of artists and humanities lovers. NJPAC has attracted over seven million guests (together with multiple million kids) since opening its doorways in 1997, and nurtures significant and lasting relationships with every of its constituents. Go to http://www.njpac.org or name 1-888-GO-NJPAC for extra data.
