Jody Watley, the Grammy Award-winning artist whose hits résumé consists of the R&B/pop singles “In search of a New Love” and “Actual Love,” is celebrating Ladies’s Historical past Month with the launch of her new SiriusXM present. Airing on The Groove channel and sporting the tagline “Wattage Vibes Rooted within the Music,” The Jody Watley Present featured Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph of Abbott Elementary on its first two-hour episode.
“I’m so excited to be coming to SiriusXM,” mentioned Watley in a launch asserting The Jody Watley Present’s March 12 debut. Shifting ahead, the month-to-month present will proceed to air on the second Sunday of every month. Added Watley, “I look ahead to bringing the ‘Wattage’ and my very own model to listeners, totally filled with the most effective of basic to up to date R&B music and interesting conversations with shock visitors.”
A former dancer on tv’s iconic dance present Soul Prepare and the feminine vocalist of the R&B trio Shalamar (“Uptown Pageant [Part 1],” “The Second Time Round,” “Make That Transfer”), Watley started pursuing a solo profession within the mid-’80s. The singer-songwriter scored her first No. 1 R&B/No. 2 pop single with “In search of a New Love” in 1987. Then Watley logged three successive No. 3 R&B singles that very same 12 months, “Nonetheless a Thrill,” “Don’t You Need Me” and “Some Sort of Lover,” on her solution to profitable the 1987 Grammy for finest new artist. Along with No. 1 R&B/No. 2 pop single “Actual Love,” Watley’s different hits embody “Associates” with Eric B. & Rakim, “The whole lot” and “I Need You.”
The subsequent episode of The Jody Watley Present is ready to air on April 9 (6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT) on The Groove (channel 50). Subscribers can even tune in by way of the SiriusXM app on smartphones and different linked units in addition to on-line.
