On Thursday, May 28th, Two One Five Entertainment, The Roots‘ production company, will host an event dubbed Questlove’s Potluck on The Food Network starting at 10:00 PM EST.
This is a one hour special that will feature several celebrity guests: Patti LaBelle, Bun B, Black Thought, Eva Longoria, George Lopez, Questlove and many more. The objective is to raise money for America’s Food Fund.
Our digital music station, Maria Jackson Radio, has been offline for the past week and a half. The reason for this is that we are currently working on switching hosting company so that we will have more control over the way our content is presented.
We have received several concerns from our loyal listeners, so much so that it became necessary to release an official press release on the matter.
Based on the information from our tech support team the station should be back up and running on Monday, June 1st. As we will undoubtedly have a new web address, another PR will be sent out at that time to update the public.
I want to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone that reached out to us and expressed their genuine love and appreciation for the station and the playlist, that we carefully put together each week.
A few days ago R&B star Anthony Hamilton released his new single titled “Back Together.” The love song features legendary singer / songwriter Rick James, with production credits going to 9th Wonder.
Click here to listen and download “Back Together” from your preferred music platform.
From Friday, May 22nd, to Sunday, May 24th, BBC will be hosting the 2020 Big Weekend festival online. They are promising that this will be one of the biggest digital concerts, with confirmed appearances by the likes of Nas, Coldplay, Koffee, Sean Paul, Stormzy, Rihanna and many more top-tier artists.
The show is scheduled to start at approximately 7:00 PM UTC on the 22nd. Listen all weekend on BBC Sounds and watch selected performances on BBC iPlayer. For more information visit bbc dot co dot uk.
So far Verzuz, the live streaming song competition, which puts one artist’s catalogue up against another, has featured music from Teddy Riley, Babyface, Erykah Badu and Jill Scott.
This Saturday, May 16th, it’s the turn of hip-hop heavy-weights Nelly and Ludacris. Songs from the men will go head to head, starting at 7:00 PM EST. All the links to stream the showdown are available HERE.
With an onslaught of updates about the corona virus pandemic dominating the airwaves, many people may have missed the news about the passing of two R&B legends: Betty Wright and Little Richard.
Betty Wright, who is known for hits like ‘thank you for the many things you’ve done’ and ‘no pain no gain,’ died from cancer on Sunday, May 10th at her home in Miami. She was 66 years young.
As for Little Richard, he passed away on Saturday, May 9th, from complications related to bone cancer. He was 87.
A few hours ago India.Arie premiered the visuals for Crazy and Sacred Space, two of the songs featured on her 2019 Worthy album. Both clips were released together, as one, in the form of a short film titled Welcome Home.
Click here or on the image above to watch the video and remember to like, comment and share.
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