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Funk Vocalist Nadir Launches New Vinyl Single & Video for "Go It Alone"
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Latin Jazz Musician Alejandro "Alex" Garcia Wins Emmy Award
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J.J.A. Announces Nominees for 16th JJA Jazz Awards
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Gina Carey Wins 2012 Jazz Music Award in the Desert Music Video Contest
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Terri Lynn Carrington's THE MOSAIC PROJECT Receives 2012 Grammy for "Best Jazz Vocal Album"
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Esperanza Spalding Did The Oscars | Gave Triumphant Performance
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Adele Wins 6 Grammy Awards, Including Record of the Year & More
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Gospel Artist Le'Andria Johnson to Perform @ the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Pre-Telecast Ceremony | Feb. 12th - 1pm PT/4pm ET
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Actress Tre Armstrong to Receive Award at the 3rd Annual Black History Month Gala in Ottawa
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GRAMMY® Nominee Adele to Make a Return to the Stage on the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards®
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Jazz Guitarist Stanley Jordan is Nominated for 2012 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Jazz Album" | 'Friends'
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Gospel Duo MARY MARY Wins 2 Stellar Awards
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Actress Tonya Lee Williams To Receive Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award
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Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Cicely Tyson and Common to Perform at BET HONORS 2012 | Feb. 13th, 2012
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Gil Scott-Heron to be Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Grammy Awards
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13th Annual BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards to Honor Kirk Franklin & Hezekiah Walker | Jan. 13th, 2012
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Grammy Winner Gloria Gaynor’s #1 ‘I Will Survive’ to Be Inducted In 2012 Grammy Hall of Fame
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Jazz & Classics Division of Concord Music Group Receives 9 Grammy Nominations
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DL Media Clients Receives 8 Grammy Nominations in Six Categories
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Mint Condition's Lead Singer Stokley Williams Receives 2 Grammy Nominations!
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Big Stars Join Forces with Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & Scorpio for "The Message" on 'The Grammy Nominations Concert Live'
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The Recording Academy® Announces 2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® Inductees
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Gospel Singer Earnest Pugh Gathers 4 Stellar Award Nominations
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Gospel Songbird Y'Anna Crawley Recieves 2 Stellar Award Nominations
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Hit Gospel Duo Mary Mary Garners 6 2012 Stellar Awards Nominations
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Multi Faceted Singer Dorothy Leigh Receives Nominations in the 54th Annual Grammy Awards 2012 - 1st Round
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"The Original 7Ven" to be Opening Act on the 3rd Annual 2011 'Soul Train Awards' | Nov. 17th, 2011
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Jazz Great Ramsey Lewis to Receive "Joie de Vivre" Award
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Trumpeter Terence Blanchard Named a Voting Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!
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Gospel Vocalist Martha Minuzzi Receives Six Stellar Award Nominations in 1st Round
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The IMAs Announces Judges for The 11th Annual Independent Music Awards
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Gospel Jazz Saxophonist Todd Ledbetter Receives Nomination for the 1st Annual Gospel Blue M.I.C. Awards
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The 2011 Minnesota Black Music Awards Salutes Alexander O'Neal | July 15th
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More Artists Added to the BET AWARDS '11 List of Talents...
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Gospel Artist James Fortune to Be Honored At 24th Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards
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Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Fest With Esteemed Miles Davis Award on June 26
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The 15th Annual Gala Celebrating the Jazz Journalists Assoc. Awards | June 11th, 2011
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The Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2011 Award Finalists
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42nd Annual GMA Dove Awards Celebrated at Atlanta's Fabulous Fox Theatre Pulls in Major Star Power at Sold Out Show
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The Seabreeze Jazz Festival Will Present The 2011 Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards
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The Recording Academy® Announces Restructuring of Categories Across All Genres and Fields to be Recognized at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2012
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Kellylee Evans Wins 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year
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The Winners of The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards Has Been Announced
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Dennis Coffey to be Honored at Detroit Music Awards
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Hall & Oates To Receive Music Icon Award at the "TV Land Awards 2011"
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Jasmine Guy, Shirley Sherrod & Fonzworth Bentley Among 2011 Drum Major for Justice Honorees
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"For Love of Liberty" Wins NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary
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UNCF Wins Third Image Award for Its Tribute to Lionel Ritchie: 'Dancing On The Ceiling'
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Stanley Clarke Wins Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album
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Esperanza Spalding Wins Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards
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Keri Hilson, The Roots & Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Perform at 2011 GRAMMY Celebration®
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Yolanda Adams, Jennifer Hudson and Many More will Join Together to Celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin on the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards®
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Pianist Geri Allen Nominated for 2011 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Jazz Album"
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Best New Artist Grammy Nominee Esperanza Spalding to Perform at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards
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Trombonist Trombone Shorty is Making News...
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Drake and Rihanna to Perform Together at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards
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Music Legend Gloria Gaynor to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Music on Feb. 5th, 2011
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Dee Dee Bridgewater's Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959) Receives NAACP Image Award Nomination...
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Pianist Geri Allen Nominated For 2011 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Jazz Album"
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Urban Contemporary Gospel Artist, TolumiDE, Receives 2 Nominations
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Gospel Singer Charles McPhatter Receives 2 Music Nominations...
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ESSENCE Salute GRAMMY®-Nominated Artist Janelle Monae at 2nd Annual ESSENCE Black Women in Music
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Smokey Robinson's CD, "Now And Then" Nominated for "Outstanding Album" @ 2011 NAACP Image Awards
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The 4th Annual BET HONORS Premiere's Feb. 21st, 2011 | Hosted by Gabrielle Union
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The 2011 GRAMMY Salute To Industry Icons® Honors David Greffen
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Legend Herbie Hancock To Be Honored By BET on Jan. 15th at BET Honors
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Soul Singer Eric Roberson Receives Grammy® nomination for Best Urban Alternative Performance
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S-Curve Records Signs Soul Legend Betty Wright | Nominated for Best Traditional R&B Vocal for "Go".
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Memphis Music Foundation Chairman of the Board, Al Bell, Recieves The 2011 GRAMMY® Trustees Award
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Talented Pianist Randell K. Announced as Nominee for "Jazz Artist Of The Year" in 2011 Los Angeles Music Awards
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New Christmas Single by Lisa McClowry Now Available on iTunes
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Blues Singer Eden Brent is Nominated for Album Of The Year @ 2011 Blues Music Awards
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The 32nd Annual Blues Music Awards Announces Nominees
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BET Recognizes 6 Individuals in the Fourth Annual BET HONORS on Feb. 21st, 2011
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Dee Dee Bridgewater Receives Grammy Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album | 2011
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Hit-Making Songwriter Claude Kelly Receives Grammy® Nomination for Fantasia's "Bittersweet"
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Jazz Vocalist Gregory Porter Receives Grammy® Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album
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Kelly Price is Nominated for Best Female Vocal Performance at 2011 Grammy's
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Columbia Records Artists & Recordings Garner 24 Grammy® Nominations | 2011
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R&B Singer Raheem DeVaughn Receives Grammy Nomination for Best R&B Album of The Year | 2011
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Sade's 'SOLDIER OF LOVE' Recieves Two Grammy Nominations
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EMI Gospel Celebrates Seven Grammy Nominations
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Telarc and Heads Up Receive 7 Grammy® Nominations
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Shore Fire Artists Earn 18 Grammy Award Nominations
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Angelique Kidyo Recieves 2010 Grammy Nomination for 'Oyo' and Much More...
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Soul Artist Tyrangem Nominated for Best R&B Song
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Not Alone Foundation Honors Jimi Hendrix
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Voices of Destiny Named 'The Best Church Choir in America'
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LISA PAGE BROOKS RECEIVES NOMINATIONS FOR 2011 STELLAR & 2010 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS
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The 2nd Annual Soul Train Awards | Nov. 28th, 2010
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Jason Moran Awarded 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
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Saxophonist Jessy J Wins ASCAPLUS Award...
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Terence Howard & Taraji P. Henson Hosts CENTRIC'S 2nd Annual Soul Train Awards | Nov. 28th, 2010
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Issac Delgado Receives Latin Grammy Nomination in Best Latin Jazz Album Category for "L-O-V-E'
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The 2011 Essence Fierce & Fabulous Awards
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Esperanza Spalding Honors Prince at the 10th Annual BET Music Awards
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10th Anniversary BET Awards Called the Rise of the Phoenix | 2010
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BET AWARDS '10 to Honor Musical Icon, Prince - 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award | June 27th, 2010
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Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards in San Diego | March 2011
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