Queen Latifah, Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes and Jermaine Dupri are among the many 2023 Black Music Month Class of inductees for the Black Music and Leisure Stroll of Fame (BMEWOF). The joint announcement was made by the Black American Music Affiliation (BAMAssoc) and the Georgia Leisure Caucus (GEC). The annual induction ceremony will happen in Atlanta on Oct. 26.
The 2023 class of inductees additionally consists of Magic Johnson, Dallas Austin, Marvin Sapp and Mahalia Jackson. All the honorees will likely be saluted with Crown Jewel of Excellence emblems that will likely be put in on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in entrance of the Mercedes Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta.
Founders of the Black Music and Leisure Stroll of Fame embrace Demmette Guidry (BAMAssoc), Erica Thomas (GEC), Michael Mauldin (BAMAssoc) and Catherine Brewton (GEC). In an announcement asserting the 2023 honorees, Brewton stated, “This 12 months’s inductees embody Black excellence and individually have our bodies of labor that may stay impactful for generations to return.”
The BMEWOF’s 2023 class of inductees joins an estimable group of prior honorees. On the music entrance, these embrace Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, James Brown, Otis Redding, Stevie Surprise, Prince, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Patti LaBelle, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Missy Elliott, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Nas, Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg and OutKast.
The Black American Music Affiliation was based in 2017 as a membership commerce group for music business professionals, creators, students, music business stakeholders and communities at giant. It’s devoted to preserving, defending and selling the legacy and the way forward for Black music.
