Extra Performers and Presenters Added to the 2019 BET Awards

JUST ADDED AS PERFORMERS AT THE 2019 BET AWARDS: MEEK MILL, FANTASIA, DABABY, JEREMIH, KIRK FRANKLIN, ERICA CAMPBELL, KELLY PRICE, JONATHAN MCREYNOLDS AND JAMES FUNK OF RARE ESSENCE

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LA LA ANTHONY, AYESHA CURRY, LARENZ TATE, AMANDA SEALES, REVEREND AL SHARPTON, RYAN DESTINY, JACOB LATIMORE, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, MIKE COLTER, DAMSON IDRIS, JODIE TURNER-SMITH, MELINA MATSOUKAS ALSO ADDED AS PRESENTERS AT THE 2019 BET AWARDS

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REGINA HALL TO HOST THE 19TH ANNUAL AWARDS SHOW AIRING LIVE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 23 FROM MICROSOFT THEATER IN LOS ANGELES AT eight PM ET

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 New York, NY – (June 20, 2019) –Immediately BET Networks proclaims the addition of recent performers and presenters showing on the 19th annual BET Awards. Meek Mill, Fantasia, DaBaby, Jeremih, Kirk Franklin, Erica Campbell, Kelly Worth, Jonathan McReynolds and James Funk of Uncommon Essence will carry out on the 2019 BET Awards, and La La Anthony, Ayesha Curry, Larenz Tate, Amanda Seales, Reverend Al Sharpton, Ryan Future, Jacob Latimore, Raphael Saadiq, Mike Colter, Damson Idris, Jodie Turner-Smith and Melina Matsoukas are set to current. Hosted by Regina Corridor, the 2019 BET Awards will air stay  Sunday, June 23 at eight/7c from the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on BET.

The 2019 BET Awards will rejoice the easiest in leisure and tradition together with posthumously presenting the late Nipsey Hussle with the Humanitarian Award and honoring him with a particular tribute efficiency by John Legend, DJ Khaled and YG. Moreover, Grammy Award-winning singer and Oscar-nominated actress Mary J. Blige might be offered with the celebrated Lifetime Achievement Award, and leisure mogul Tyler Perry might be acknowledged with the Final Icon Award.

As beforehand introduced, the 2019 BET Awards will even characteristic performances by Cardi B, Migos, H.E.R., Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lizzo, Mustard, Lil Child, Metropolis Ladies’ Yung Miami, Fortunate Daye, and Kiana Ledé, with presenters together with Taraji P. Henson, Lena Waithe, Morris Chestnut, Yara Shahidi, and Marsai Martin.

Cardi B leads this 12 months’s nominations with a complete of seven, together with Finest Feminine Hip-Hop Artist, Album of the 12 months, Coca-Cola Viewers’ Alternative Award and two separate nods in each the Finest Collaboration and Video of the 12 months classes. Drake follows with 5 nods for Finest Male Hip-Hop Artist, Video of the 12 months, Finest Collaboration and the Coca-Cola Viewers’ Alternative Award. Different main nominees embody Beyoncé, Travis Scott and J. Cole, who obtained 4 nominations every, and Bruno Mars, 21 Savage, Infantile Gambino, H.E.R. and Ella Mai, who obtained three nominations every.

The 2019 BET Awards will simulcast LIVE at eight/7c throughout seven Viacom networks within the U.S. together with BET, BET HER, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Basic, VH1, and Emblem. Internationally, the present will simulcast for the primary time on BET Africa at 2 a.m. CAT on June 24, adopted by worldwide broadcasts within the U.Okay. on June 24 at 9 p.m. BST, South Korea on June 25 at 9 p.m. KST and in France on June 25 at 9 p.m. CEST. Internationally, BET will honor Finest Worldwide Act in-show, together with the fan-voted class Finest New Worldwide Act and BET Worldwide World Good Award throughout the stay pink carpet preshow.

Connie Orlando, Govt Vice-President, Head of Programming at BET will function Govt Producer for the 2019 BET Awards together with Jesse Collins, CEO of Jesse Collins Leisure.

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The “BET Awards” is likely one of the most watched award reveals on cable tv based on the Nielsen Firm. The “BET Awards” franchise stays because the #1 program in cable TV historical past amongst African-People, and it’s BET’s #1 telecast yearly. It acknowledges the triumphs and successes of artists, entertainers, and athletes in a wide range of classes.

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, Collins has performed an integral position in producing a few of tv’s most memorable moments in music leisure. Collins has produced groundbreaking and award-winning tv programming, together with “BET Awards,” “Grammy Awards,” “Soul Practice Music Awards,” “BET Honors,” “UNCF an Night of Stars,” “ABFF Awards” and “BET Hip Hop Awards.” Collins was an government producer of the hit TV collection “Actual Husbands of Hollywood,” starring Kevin Hart, and the critically acclaimed “The New Version Story,” a biopic on the boy band that aired as a three-part miniseries on BET in January 2017. He’s additionally the chief producer of VH1 reveals “Pricey Mama” and “Hip Hop Squares” with Ice Dice. Most just lately, JCE executive-produced “The Bobby Brown Story.” The miniseries picked up the place “The New Version Story” miniseries left off and chronicled the gifted however troubled singer’s exit from the favored 80s boy band via his solo success. It debuted on BET in September 2018 and was the highest-rated non-tentpole program on the community since “The New Version Story.” Subsequent for JCE is the second season of “American Soul” on BET and Netflix’s upcoming collection “Rhythm and Move.”