Johnny Gill, Bootsy Collins, Hezekiah Walker To Be Celebrated At 2024 Black Music Honors
Johnny Gill, Bootsy Collins, Hezekiah Walker and Patrice Rushen will be acknolweged for their creative and cultural contributions at the 2024 Black Music Honors.
The event, which is scheduled to take place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Saturday, May 18, celebrates Black artists who have impacted American music on a global scale.
The ninth annual Black Music Honors gala will be co-hosted by singer/actress LeToya Luckett and comedian/actor DeRay Davis, and will premiere on the Stellar Network on Saturday, June 1 at 8 p.m. ET and will rebroadcast at 10 p.m. ET that same night.
“We are extremely proud to bring more visibility to these tremendous icons who have stayed the course from humble beginnings to careers that span decades,” Don Jackson, the Black Music Honors founder and executive producer, expressed in a statement.
“Their lives and stories are part of the beautiful tapestry of Black music…which has impacted the globe.”
Each of the four acts set to be awarded at the 2024 Black Music Honors have an illustrious history and are considered legends in their respective genres.
Hezekiah Walker is a two-time Grammy Award winner, receiving Best Gospel Album By Choir Or Chorus in 1994 and 2001, while Bootsy Collins has won a gramophone once, as a featured artist on Fatboy Slim’s 2000 single “Weapon of Choice.”
Rushen and Gill have both been nominated for multiple Grammys, but have yet to be named a winner of any category at the award show. Originally launched as Celebrate the Soul of American Music in 1990, the event would hold events until 1993 before shutting down and being revived as Black Music Honors in 2016.
The 2024 Black Music Honors will air in national broadcast syndication from June 8 through June 30 during Black Music Month. The show will also air on Bounce TV on Wednesday, June 19 at 9 p.m. ET.
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