CHICAGO, IL. (CelebrityAccess) – Chicago’s Central City Productions (CCP) announced this week that the 2018 Black Music Honors – the annual two-hour television special that honors artists and musicians who have influenced and made significant contributions to American music – will take place Thursday, August 16th in Nashville, TN.
This year’s honorees include Bobby Brown, who will receive the R&B Soul Music Icon Award for his 40 years in entertainment and 32 years as a solo artist, Bebe and Cece Winans, who will be co-honorees of the Gospel Music Icon Award, chart-topping music producer and label executive Dallas Austin, who will be presented with the Music Innovator Icon Award, and multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter and producer Faith Evans, who is set to receive the Urban Music Icon Award.
“The vision of the Black Music Honors is to recognize the trailblazers in African American music who have paved the way for the artists of today,” said Don Jackson, founder and CEO of Central City Productions. “Many of these artists have never received their much-deserved recognition.”
Television and radio personality Rickey Smiley and Grammy Award-winner and actress LeToya Luckett will return as co-hosts of the show, which is set to air on broadcast syndication on Sept. 8-30, 2018. Ticket proceeds will benefit the 2019 opening of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville.
